Compliance & accreditations
Fully insured, fully accredited, properly compliant
Cat's Recovery & Transport operates to the standards UK insurers, dealerships, bodyshops and recovery networks expect. Here's exactly what that means in practice.
- 24/7 · 365 days a year
- PAS43 Accredited
- IVR Accredited including EV Recovery
- £5M Public Liability
- £150k Goods in Transit
- Operator Licence
- Waste Carrier Licence
- Family-run operator
- FdEng Motorsport Engineering
- London, Essex & M25 coverage
What our compliance actually covers
Insurance, accreditation, licensing, training and culture — the things that separate a professional recovery operator from a man with a truck.
Public Liability Insurance — £5,000,000
We carry £5M Public Liability cover. Whether we're attending a busy London junction, a private driveway or a dealership forecourt, you and the people around the work are covered.
Goods in Transit Insurance — £150,000
Vehicles loaded on our flatbed are covered by £150k Goods in Transit insurance. Prestige cars, fleet vans, EVs and non-runners — all insured while we move them.
PAS43 Accredited
PAS43 is the UK industry standard for safe working on the highway. Our drivers and procedures meet PAS43 requirements for hard shoulder, live lane and roadside recovery — the level of compliance Police, Highways and major networks expect.
IVR Accredited (1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 19, 27b — incl. EV)
We hold Institute of Vehicle Recovery accreditation across the modules required for modern recovery work, including module 27b for electric vehicle recovery. That means trained, compliant handling of EVs, prestige cars, light commercial vehicles and damaged vehicles.
Operator Licence
We operate under a UK Operator Licence — the regulatory framework that governs commercial vehicle operators. Vehicles, drivers, hours and maintenance all meet the standards required.
Waste Carrier Licence (Cat B vehicles)
We hold a Waste Carrier Licence covering Category B end-of-life vehicles. That means we can legally and properly handle scrapped, written-off and end-of-life vehicles — common in insurance and salvage work.
FdEng Motorsport Engineering
The owner holds a Foundation Degree in Motorsport Engineering. That technical background is the difference between someone who 'puts cars on a truck' and someone who understands suspension, drivetrain, EV high-voltage architecture and how to recover damaged vehicles without making things worse.
Family-run business
We're a family-run, owner-operated recovery and transport business. You speak to the people doing the work — no call centre, no faceless network, no being passed around.
Built for damaged, prestige, low and non-running vehicles
Day-to-day recovery work doesn't only mean a healthy car that's run out of fuel. It means crash-damaged saloons that won't roll, prestige cars with low splitters, EVs that can't be flat-towed, vans loaded with stock, and project cars that haven't moved in years.
Our equipment is set up for that reality — modern tilt-and-slide flatbeds, soft straps, low-angle ramps, neutral skates, winches and the EV-mode tooling needed to put electric vehicles into the correct transport state. Combined with PAS43, IVR and an FdEng Motorsport Engineering background, that means a vehicle in our care is in competent, accountable hands.
For trade clients — dealerships, bodyshops, insurers and recovery networks — that compliance package is exactly the documentation, accreditation and insurance level that makes work easy to authorise.
Trade or insurance work?
Open a trade account or discuss an insurance / bodyshop arrangement. Call or WhatsApp the office and we'll get the right paperwork to you.