Monday, March 15, 2010
Understanding Roadside Assistance
The terminology of Roadside Assistance is used internationally as the service that will come and fix your car by the road and get you going again. But in the UK it takes on a slightly different slant. Breakdown cover is the general term used and roadside assistance is used for the cheapest or basic service by most of the large nationwide operators.
In Australia and the States you will struggle to find anyone advertising their service as breakdown cover and roadside assistance will be the main term.
Even so, you will find that UK operators will still make a slant on those words to be different, such as a single word, "Roadside".
It is important to understand this as many insurance companies offer roadside assistance free with their car insurance polices. This seems a good deal, except many will be accepting a roadside assistance policy when they really need something more substantial like a recovery service included deal, or home start. It may be free, but just may not be suitable, without paying more money to upgrade, which of course most will not do.
In Australia and the States you will struggle to find anyone advertising their service as breakdown cover and roadside assistance will be the main term.
Even so, you will find that UK operators will still make a slant on those words to be different, such as a single word, "Roadside".
It is important to understand this as many insurance companies offer roadside assistance free with their car insurance polices. This seems a good deal, except many will be accepting a roadside assistance policy when they really need something more substantial like a recovery service included deal, or home start. It may be free, but just may not be suitable, without paying more money to upgrade, which of course most will not do.
# posted by breakdown @ 5:30 AM 
