Tow truck in West Linden, NJ: the Parkway side, the quiet blocks and the drive home from Exits 136 and 137

A project car, an older second car, or the one that sat while you were away and now will not turn over. A jump is tried first at one flat price. If the car has to leave, the driver winches it out of the garage on a flat cable, brings it to the driveway and loads it on the flatbed there.

Say whether the garage door clears a person standing up and whether the car steers; that tells him whether dollies are needed.

The Parkway runs along the city's edge and its exits feed the west end. On the Parkway itself the shoulder is the Authority's: On the New Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway the shoulder itself is served by the Turnpike Authority's authorized garages; book with us anyway, and once the authorized truck has the car off the highway we take it from the exit or the garage's lot to the shop or driveway you choose, at the same flat quoted price.

Once you are off the ramp and on a local street, it is direct dispatch at the flat fee, and the run into Linden is a few minutes.

The streets here cross into three towns without much warning, and a shop in Clark or Cranford is as close as one in Linden. A tow that starts on a Linden block and ends over the line is the booking fee plus a few miles, and the reverse is the same.

Winfield is a few blocks of quiet streets tucked against the Parkway, and a driveway call there is handled exactly like one in West Linden.

Newer SUVs, hybrids and the occasional electric car in the driveways of the west end, and every one of them rides a flatbed with all four wheels up. Front-drive sedans that roll and steer take the wheel-lift to a garage on St. Georges Avenue.

Say the model on the call. The dispatcher sends the right truck first.