Nordic Recovery glossary: tow truck words explained
This glossary explains the words you meet in Nordic Recovery, in alphabetical order. Words in bold are written exactly as the game shows them.
A to F
Accident site: the place where the job is. The minimap marks it, and the job line shows how far it is.
Air wedge: a flat bag you pump up in the gap of a car door, so there is room for a long tool to reach the lock button. Used in Keys locked in the car. See Roadside jobs.
Assists: helpers that are always on, like putting the truck back on the road. Listed in the pause menu and on the controls page.
Base: the voice on the radio. Base hands out the jobs and tells you what to do.
Base pay: what a job pays before bonuses. It is the payment Base gives on the radio.
Bed: see Flatbed.
Boom: a strong crane arm on a heavy tow truck. You need it for the lorry and bus in the ditch.
Cable pull: the gauge that shows how hard the winch cable is pulling: Slack, Even, High or Too high!
Clean recovery: a bonus of 10% of the base pay when you park Good and have no mishaps. A tidy job gets 4%.
Condition: how healthy your truck is, from 100% down. Below 60% it pulls to one side and gets slower. See The workshop, pay and repairs.
Damage: the line on the Job done screen that shows what bumps and mishaps took off your safety bonus.
Equipment: the tools a truck carries: flatbed, wheel lift, winch, boom, rotator and tool kit.
Excess: the part of a crash your firm pays straight away, from 1,500 to 6,000 SEK.
Flatbed: the long, flat back of a tow truck. It tilts down so a car can be winched up onto it.
G to P
Hazard lights: the orange flashing lights on your truck. They warn other drivers. Switch them on with B, Y or ⚠.
Jump-start: starting a car with a flat battery by connecting it to your truck with cables.
Job line: the line at the top of the screen that says what to do next and how far it is.
Max load: the heaviest vehicle a truck can pull, lift or carry, in tonnes (t).
Mishap: something that goes wrong during the work, such as the bed hitting the car or the cable jerking. It costs a little of your safety bonus.
Norrvägens Bärgning: the recovery firm you drive for. Its workshop is open day and night.
Outriggers: support legs that fold down from a heavy tow truck and press into the ground, so the truck stays still during a heavy pull.
Parking gauge: the gauge that grades your spot by Distance, Sideways and Angle: Good, OK or Bad.
Pulley: a wheel you clip to a tree so the winch cable can pull around it. It doubles the pulling power. Real tow drivers call it a snatch block.
Q to Z
Quick dash from the workshop: an offer from Base after a delivery. It skips the long drive to a far-away job and puts you just before the accident site.
Recovery 12: your name on the radio.
Roadside job: a job you finish on the spot, like a flat tyre. The customer drives on. See Roadside jobs.
Rotator: a tow truck with a big turning crane. It can stand an overturned timber truck back up.
Safety bonus: 20% of the base pay for using the hazard lights and the warning triangle.
Safety chains: chains that hold a towed vehicle to the wheel lift, just in case.
SEK: Swedish crowns, the money in the game.
Shift: eight hours of work on the game clock: a Day shift, Evening shift or Night shift. See Shifts, clock and weather.
Snowbank: a wall of snow at the side of the road, often left by the snow plough.
Star pattern: tightening wheel nuts across the wheel instead of round in a circle, so the wheel goes on evenly.
Target time: the time a job should take. Finish within it for the full time bonus.
Time bonus: up to 30% of the base pay for finishing within the target time.
Tool kit: jack, jump cables, fuel can and lock tools for roadside jobs. Every truck has one.
Tow loop: a strong ring on a car where you hook the winch cable.
Warning triangle: a red triangle you put on the road to warn traffic. Put it out with E, A or ✋.
Wheel lift: forks at the back of a tow truck that slide under the front wheels and lift that end of the vehicle.
Winch: a motor that winds in a steel cable to pull a vehicle. Hold W, RT or ▲ to winch in.
Work view: the camera the game uses while you do recovery work.
See also
- Controls: every button for every word above.
- FAQ: quick answers.
- The guide's front page: all pages in this guide.
- More words in other games: all Contenta Games guides.
- See it all in action: play Nordic Recovery.
