24 hour towing service in New Jersey near Linden, Union County

When you search "tow truck near me" from the shoulder of Routes 1 & 9, a Route 22 ramp or a Turnpike exit where an authorized garage has just set your car down, the result you need is not a national call center that resells your call to whoever picks up. It is a truck that is already close, a dispatcher who can tell you the price and the arrival time without checking with anyone, and a driver who knows the exit you are stuck at. That is what a Linden-based towing company gives you: a yard in the middle of the roads people actually break down on, with Exit 13 of the New Jersey Turnpike, Routes 1 & 9, Route 27 and the Garden State Parkway's Clark and Cranford exits all within a few minutes of the trucks.

Every page on this site exists to get you to one action: calling (908) 444-0129. There is no membership to buy, no app to install and no form to fill out when you are stuck. You call, the dispatcher asks four questions, quotes a flat price, and the truck rolls. If you are not stuck right now and want to see exactly what we do first, the full list of services and the complete service area are one click away.

Most breakdowns are not tows. A battery that died at the Rahway train station, a flat on Route 27, keys locked in the car at the Woodbridge Center, an empty tank on Route 9 between Woodbridge and Sayreville with no station in sight — each is fixed on the spot in minutes by a technician with the right tool. We quote the roadside assistance price on the call, and if the job turns out to need a truck after all, the flatbed is dispatched from the same call rather than a second one.

Roadside plans sell peace of mind and then route your call to whichever contractor accepts it, which is why the wait is often an hour or more. We are the company that shows up. Many plans reimburse an out-of-network call anyway, and the itemized receipt we hand you is exactly what they ask for.

"How much is a tow truck" is the second question every caller asks, right after "how fast." The honest answer is that it depends on two things — the truck the job needs and the distance to where you want the car — and that both are known before the truck leaves Linden. Here is how the number is built so nothing on the receipt surprises you.

Linden sits where New Jersey's busiest roads cross. That is not a slogan; it is why a truck from our yard reaches a highway shoulder, or a Turnpike or Parkway exit, faster than one from almost anywhere else in the state. Below is how we work each road, exit by exit, so you know what to tell the dispatcher and what to expect.

The minutes after a crash are when the most expensive decision gets made for you if you do not make it yourself. Here is what actually happens at a New Jersey accident scene and how to keep the car, and the bill, under your control.

The most common roadside call in New Jersey is the one that starts with a click. Train station lots on the Northeast Corridor and Raritan Valley line, airport long-term parking near Newark, garages in Hoboken and Jersey City where a car has not moved since the fall, and every driveway in Union County on the first single-digit morning of the year. The jump start service fixes it on the spot.

Changing a tire on the shoulder of Routes 1 & 9, Route 22 or I-78 means kneeling a few feet from traffic doing seventy. Many newer cars have no spare at all, only an inflator kit that does nothing for a sidewall gash. Wheel locks get lost, factory jacks bend, lug nuts were torqued by an impact gun at the last shop. The flat tire change service is worth the call for the safety alone. Turnpike and Parkway shoulders are served by the Authority's authorized garages. Book with us and we take the car from the exit or the garage's lot.

A motorcycle strapped wrong is a motorcycle with a bent bar, crushed fairing or scratched tank. Route 22 and Route 27 see plenty of riders, and so do the Parkway and the Turnpike, where the Authority's authorized garage brings a stranded bike off the highway and we take it from the exit or the garage's lot; the roads out toward Watchung and Route 202 are where people ride for fun and break down for real. Motorcycle towing is a specialty, and we treat it like one.

A car that still runs is the hardest one to make the right call on. It might make it the four miles to the shop on Route 22. It might also turn a cheap repair into a rebuild on the way. These are the symptoms where the dispatcher, if you describe them honestly, will tell you to take the local tow.

You paid for the tow; someone else may owe you the money back. Here is how that works and what we give you to make it easy.