How to Request a Tow
A tow request is more than an address. Live dispatch must understand the scene, vehicle, access, destination, and requested work before confirming availability, price, and assignment.
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Know what happens before a truck is assigned
These guides explain how to make a safe request, what information live dispatch needs, what happens after the call, and how to share a precise pickup. They also make one boundary clear: a website form or email does not dispatch a truck.
What Information Tow Dispatch Needs
Clear information helps dispatch decide whether the request fits, what equipment may be needed, how access affects the move, and what price or estimate can be confirmed.
Read the guide →What Happens After You Call for a Tow
The first call starts a qualification process. It does not automatically mean a truck has been assigned. Dispatch must confirm the job, price or estimate, authorization, and current availability.
Read the guide →How to Share Your Location With Tow Dispatch
A map pin is useful only when it identifies the vehicle's actual pickup point and the route a tow truck can use. Pair the pin with road direction, nearby signs, access instructions, and a callback number.
Read the guide →How to Prepare Your Vehicle for Towing
Good preparation begins before the operator arrives. The safest handoff gives dispatch accurate information, protects essential property, confirms the destination, and leaves model-specific loading decisions to the operator and the vehicle manufacturer's instructions.
Read the guide →How AWD and 4×4 Vehicles Should Be Towed
AWD, full-time four-wheel drive, selectable 4WD, hybrids, and electric drivetrains do not share one universal towing method. The model-year owner's manual and actual wheel, steering, power, transfer-case, and damage conditions control the plan.
Read the guide →Can a Vehicle Be Towed Without Keys?
Missing keys do not automatically make towing impossible, but they can prevent normal entry, steering, Neutral, parking-brake release, transport mode, or destination handoff. Dispatch must qualify the exact vehicle and access before promising a method.
Read the guide →What to Do After a Traffic Accident
The first decisions after a crash concern people, traffic, fire, fluids, and lawful scene control—not the tow destination. Once immediate danger is addressed, gather the information needed for police, insurance, repair, and towing without walking into active traffic.
Read the guide →What to Do When Stranded on a Highway
A highway breakdown becomes dangerous when people step into traffic, attempt repairs beside a live lane, or give responders the wrong carriageway. Your first task is to reduce exposure and communicate the exact road, direction, shoulder, and nearest marker.
Read the guide →How Paying for Towing Works
A payment should match the tow that live dispatch qualified and the customer authorized. Before assignment, confirm who is paying, the job-specific estimate, what can change it, the accepted payment method for that job, and what receipt or invoice will be provided.
Read the guide →Insurance Reimbursement for Towing and Roadside Help
Towing or emergency-road-service coverage may pay or reimburse an eligible expense, but coverage is not automatic. The insurer or roadside plan—not the tow provider—decides whether the event, provider, amount, destination, and documentation satisfy the policy or membership terms.
Read the guide →How to Schedule Vehicle Transportation
A scheduled vehicle move is more than a date on a calendar. Dispatch must qualify the vehicle, pickup access, destination acceptance, route, timing, handling requirements, payer, and applicable operating authority before confirming an assignment.
Read the guide →How to Cancel a Tow Request
A website message, voicemail, insurer update, or call to another provider does not automatically cancel a tow. Contact the dispatch channel that confirmed the assignment, identify the job, explain the change, and obtain live cancellation confirmation as soon as possible.
Read the guide →Customer Complaint and Resolution Process
A useful complaint identifies the exact job, separates facts from assumptions, preserves relevant records, and states the requested resolution. Start with Tommy's when the concern involves its communication, estimate, payment, handling, or service; use the responsible insurer, agency, property controller, or regulator when the issue belongs elsewhere.
Read the guide →How Towing Prices Are Calculated
A useful towing estimate describes the actual vehicle, pickup, destination, access, condition, timing, and work—not just a single advertised number. Tommy's states that towing starts at $125; mileage and other disclosed charges may apply. Live dispatch must explain the job-specific estimate before assignment.
Read the guide →How Loaded Mileage Works in Towing
For this guide, loaded mileage means the transport leg after the disabled or transported vehicle is secured for movement from the pickup toward the authorized destination. It is different from the tow truck's travel to the pickup, but companies and regulated price schedules can define, count, round, or bundle mileage differently.
Read the guide →How Electric Vehicles Should Be Towed
Electric vehicles do not share one universal towing procedure. The exact model-year manufacturer instructions, low-voltage power, key availability, charging connection, wheel condition, high-voltage damage, access, and destination determine how the vehicle may be loaded and transported.
Read the guide →Choosing Flatbed or Wheel-Lift Towing
The safest towing method is not chosen from vehicle value or customer preference alone. Manufacturer instructions, drivetrain, wheel and suspension condition, ground clearance, collision damage, access, loading angle, distance, destination, and available compatible equipment must all agree.
Read the guide →How Parking-Garage Towing Works
A garage tow is an access and geometry problem before it is a transport problem. The truck must reach the correct level, turn through the route, approach the vehicle, load or reposition it, and exit without relying on the entrance sign alone.
Read the guide →Price questions have their own guide
Towing starts at $125; mileage and other disclosed charges may apply. The pricing page explains the verified cost variables without inventing a mileage formula that has not been finalized.
Review pricing and estimatesSafety first.
If anyone is injured, in immediate danger, facing a fire or hazardous spill, or blocking an active traffic lane, call 911 first. Move only when you can do so without entering traffic or increasing the danger.
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