Drivers fume as breakdown firms put up premiums and slow down help

More and more motorists are reporting long waits, sometimes overnight, for help from RAC and AAWhen Jim Shirley, 76, was on his way home from a Welsh camping holiday one morning, he disappeared. Concerned friends set out from Bristol at 5am the following day to search for him. “We saw him from half a mile away at the side of the A44,” says Mari Martin. “He had broken down at 1pm the previous afternoon and the RAC had told him it would send a recovery truck since it could not re