one good t5hing about the French rescue system is the cost of being picked up off the motorway is fixed by the governmant and is published in rest areas etc so you can see that you are not being ripped off , by the recovery company , and TBH in 22 years trucking over there I found most of the fench people to be honest and freindly , and experience of a few truck garages puts a lot of UK garages to shame . prices where fair when paid with credit card , and once we wnet in to the Scania agent at Dinan with the clutch slave cylinder gone on the truck , the offending item was inside the bellhousing so the gearbox had to be dropped, we sat and waited while it was done , at noon they came and said come with us we wnt to their canteen type room, they gave us a drink , picked up their bags and said see you in 2 hours , left the workshop, stores , etc al unlocked and in the care of 2 foreign strangers, that would never happen in the UK they would turn you out on the street in the rain here