Blog Posts — Wheel Skates

Manufacturing to a Customer's Design

Listening to customers. Cardno is continually adapting its product offer to include more specific customer requests where it is most likely to be relevant and interesting to many other customers.

Electric Vehicles Breakdown & Recovery

New electric and hybrid vehicle models (EV&HV) are coming out all the time and sales of them are growing really quickly. For a vehicle recovery operator, this means a whole new experience in moving, lifting and loading them compared to petrol and diesel vehicles.

Made in Britain

We, at Cardno, very much believe that when the phrase, ‘Made in Britain’, is used in marketing, by a company of its products, it is done so to indicate their confidence in the content, quality and reliability of the products they manufacture.

Cardno Recovery Wheel Skates - Best Practice

Vehicle recovery skates are very useful for moving vehicles with locked or damaged wheels. Keep the wheels straight and don't overload!

When and How to Use Recovery Wheel Skate Skids

Wheel winching skate skids

For moving or recovering cars or light commercial vehicles on a hard surface when, for whatever reason, one or more of the road wheels cannot be rotated.

This could be because the wheel(s) is locked, damaged or access to the vehicle is prohibitive (for example, vehicle locked keys not available and handbrake is on). It could also be used to unload a locked vehicle off of the back of a recovery vehicle 

Hi-Vis Yellow Wheel Winching Skates

These strikingly-coloured Hi-Vis Yellow wheel winching skates, are clearly visible, compared to original-coloured skates, so the chances of losing or forgetting them at the scene of the recovery of a vehicle are greatly reduced.