After my accident on Wednesday I called the RAC at 6pm I was told to wait for 3-4 hours which I thought was reasonable because it was rush hour and I appreciate that the RAC is very busy. However I spent an entire evening waiting, with no updates. At 10pm I rang again, and was on hold for 30 mins, thus making me run out of minutes on my mobile and forcing me to pay extra for this. When I did get through the operator on every occasion they were polite but did not make any effort to help me. Instead I was told that they tried to call me with no success, despite having the correct number. I spent the whole evening with my phone and had no missed calls so I thought this was strange. I re-arranged the visit to the following morning between 8-10am. The following morning I was waiting from 7:30am, again with no updates from switchboard. At 10am I asked a relative to call the RAC on my behalf to ask what was going on, so that my phone remained available. Again they said the same thing about them trying to get through to me. However they said they'd call me immediately. Half an hour later we called them yet again to ask for an update and they said the same thing. This was repeated every 30-45 mins. Finally around 11:30 we escalated this to management to get anything done, and there was only a brief verbal apology. Furthermore, they said that there was no record of the patrol drivers trying to contact me at all. Therefore the patronising advice from each preceding call (about how I should keep my phone with me because they had been trying in vain to call me) had been a lie!! There has been no offer to attempt to compensate me for my lost time and productivity, nor the emotional impact of the whole experience. This prevented me from working and I am suffering from the consequences. Previously I trusted the RAC as a well respected company, and they have served me very well in the past. This experience has destroyed that trust and I will no longer be using their services. I would highly recommend against using the shambolic RAC.