a truck used to transport motor vehicles which have broken down to another location (generally a repair garage), or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface
2. military
in combat search and rescue, the vehicle (aircraft, maritime, or land), on which isolated personnel are boarded and transported from the pickup site
Examples of 'recovery vehicle' in a sentence
recovery vehicle
There was not much room to get a tank off the road, and even less to bring a heavy recovery vehicle up parallel to the column.