Recover Me Please

As was announced last month, a joint partnership commenced between Victoria Police and FWDV to free up police resources. This partnership is a service to recover stranded or bogged four-wheel drive vehicles from four-wheel drive tracks where the Police and normal accident towing services are unable to assist. This new initiative is called "Recover Me Please" and is available day and night via a phone call to 000 which would then be redirected to a FWDV coordinator. Initially it will operate in the Wombat Park and Lerderderg State Forests in central Victoria.
No sooner was it announced when the first request came in! Following the initial call to Police it went through the system which eventually found several members of the CityWest 4X4 Club called out to recover a guy who had gone four-wheel driving by himself in the Wombat Forest. (Full details are in the June issue of FWDV's June Trackwatch magazine). The stranded motorist was very grateful for being retrieved from the depths of a lonely dark forest after a 15km walk into Blackwood to seek assistance.
This new initiative frees up Police from this time consuming task and provide information to the assisted persons about driver training and further education. About twenty calls annually are received by Police in the Moorabool Police District alone to recover members of the public, who are stranded in their four-wheel drive vehicles in the local parks and forests. FWDV can now draw on the resources and skills of trained and competent four-wheel drive club members who will recover the stranded vehicle for a set fee. The volunteers who are trained in vehicle recovery and First Aid are a welcome support in this area. The CityWest 4X4 Club is to be congratulated on their prompt response to this call, which was also much appreciated by the Trentham Police.

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