Tow truck on St. Georges Avenue, Rahway, NJ: the shopping lots, the garages and the road our trucks arrive on

Wide, flat lots where a flatbed can back straight up to the car, which is where the family SUVs and crossovers go. Most calls from these lots are batteries, and a jump is one flat price with no miles. If the charge will not hold, the same truck tows at the flat fee.

Say which lot and roughly where in it; the trucks know the entrances.

St. Georges Avenue has more repair shops per mile than any other Rahway street, so a lot of tows here are very short. A front-wheel-drive car that rolls goes on a wheel-lift and is at the shop before the paperwork is done. An all-wheel-drive car still goes on the flatbed, however short the hop, because the distance does not change what the drivetrain can take.

A car that dies in the left lane at Westfield Avenue or Central Avenue sits in a through lane with buses behind it. The driver comes in with the light bar on and parks to shield the car while he hooks. If the engine still turns, get into a lot or a side street first; the price is the same and nobody has to load in traffic.

North, the avenue crosses into Linden and toward our yard; south, it runs into Colonia and Avenel in Woodbridge Township. A tow across either line is the booking fee plus a couple of miles, and the shops on the Linden side are as close to the park as the ones downtown.

Parkway Exit 135 is a few minutes west along Central Avenue. 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.