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Tow truck prices in Linden, NJ: one booking fee for either truck, the miles, and the lines you will never see
Because the trucks are based in Linden there is no drive-in time to pay for, and because the truck is chosen for the car there is no premium for choosing the right one. This page explains the booking fee, how the miles are counted, how the bigger trucks are priced, and what never shows up on the receipt.
One fee, the miles, and nothing more: how a tow truck in Linden is priced
A tow in Linden is two numbers: the $149 booking fee, or $129 if you booked online, which pays for the flatbed or the wheel-lift reaching you and loading the car, and a per-mile charge from the pickup to the destination you choose, told to you on the call; recovery work is a third line only when a car cannot roll or steer, and only once you have agreed to it.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Booking fee by phone | $149 | Dispatch and hook-up, any hour |
| Booking fee online | $129 | $20 off when you book it yourself |
| Mileage to your destination | Quoted on the call | Before the truck moves. You pick the shop. |
| Jump start · tire · lockout · fuel | One flat price each | No mileage. Tried first when it can solve it. |
| Winch or dollies | Only if the car will not roll | Named before the work, you decide |
| Night, weekend, holiday, fuel surcharge | None | 3 a.m. costs what 3 p.m. costs |
| Storage or release fee | None | The car goes to your shop, not a yard |
The booking fee: $149 by phone, $129 online, either truck
Think of the fee as the truck's time. It covers the drive to you, which in Linden is a short one, and the work of getting the car onto or behind the truck, at whatever hour you call. By phone it is $149; typed into the booking page yourself it is $129.
The dispatcher decides whether a flatbed or a wheel-lift comes, and that decision has no effect on the fee. Vans, box trucks, tankers and buses are a different class of truck and are quoted separately.
The miles, and where the count starts
The meter starts where your car is, not where our truck is. Sunnyside to a garage on St. Georges Avenue is a small number; a Linden driveway to a dealer in Middlesex County is a larger one, and you hear it before you say yes.
You choose the destination. If you do not have a shop, the driver can name one nearby, but nothing obliges you to use it. Past the shore, New York or the state line, the job is a long distance tow with tolls and the return trip inside one quoted figure.
Winch, dollies and recovery
A third line exists only when the car cannot roll or steer on its own: after a crash, stuck in the soft ground beside Tremley Point Road, off the pavement on the park edge after ice, or parked with the wheels locked and turned into the curb. Most of the time the dispatcher hears this on the call and quotes it then.
When the driver is the one who finds it, he tells you the figure before he touches the car, and you are free to decline.
Lines that never appear on the receipt
There is no after-hours, weekend or holiday line, no fuel line, and no upcharge for the flatbed over the wheel-lift.
There is no hook fee, because hooking the car is the point of the booking fee. There is no storage line and no release line, because your car goes to your shop and we do not keep a lot to store it in. A passenger or two in the cab is free.
Card and cash are priced the same, and so is asking.
Tell the dispatcher where the car is, what it is and where it should go, and the number is complete.
Hear the numberBook online · $129The four jobs a tow truck does in Linden without towing: jump, tire, lockout, fuel
A jump start, a flat tire change, a car lockout and a fuel delivery are each one flat price in Linden, with no mileage attached, and if the dispatcher hears a problem one of them will solve, that is what she sends rather than a tow.
Jump start
The battery that quit in the station lot, at Aviation Plaza or in a Sunnyside driveway on a January morning. Packs on the truck are sized for cars, diesels and trucks. If the charge will not hold, the tow follows on the same truck at the booking fee.
Flat tire change
Your spare fitted at the curb or on the edge of Routes 1 & 9. No spare, or two flats from the same Stiles Street pothole, and the car is carried to whichever tire shop you prefer at the tow price.
Car lockout
Keys locked inside outside a Wood Avenue shop, at Linden Plaza or by a Tremley Point gate. Proper tools, no broken glass, one flat price.
Fuel delivery
Empty on Edgar Road, on St. Georges Avenue or on the way down South Wood Avenue. Gas or diesel, enough to reach the next pump, any hour of the night.
If a tow might not be needed, say so on the call. The roadside job costs less and it is what goes first.
Call (908) 666-3168What the trucks doWhat each kind of tow truck costs to send in Linden, and why the car picks the truck
Flatbed and wheel-lift share one booking fee in Linden; the medium-duty truck for vans and box trucks and the heavy-duty wrecker for tractors, tankers and buses are quoted per job; and in no case does the price decide which truck comes, because the vehicle does.
There are companies that price the flatbed above the wheel-lift and let the customer choose. We think that gets the decision backwards. The customer is being asked to gamble a transfer case against a few dollars, and the customer usually loses.
Here the car fee is one figure, and the dispatcher makes the choice from what you drive. Front-wheel drive and rolling, the wheel-lift goes. All-wheel drive, electric, hybrid, lowered, luxury, motorcycle or crashed, the flatbed goes.
Commercial vehicles are a different conversation only because they need different machines. A sprinter or a box truck calls for a medium-duty truck; a tractor, a chassis, a tanker or a bus calls for a heavy wrecker; the quote for either is built on the call from the weight and the location.
Operators at Tremley Point, in the South Wood Avenue parks and along Routes 1 & 9 who call often are better off on an account: one direct number, one monthly bill, no card at the roadside.
Every receipt, car or commercial, is itemized by the truck that came, the booking fee or the quoted rate, the miles and any recovery line, so an adjuster, a roadside plan or a fleet office can read it without calling us.
Ask which truck your car gets. The answer costs nothing and does not move the fee.
Call (908) 666-3168Home: tow truck Linden NJPricing: common questions
Short answers to what people ask about this page; the dispatcher can answer the rest.
Is $149 the whole price of a tow truck in Linden?
It is the booking fee, which covers the truck reaching you and loading the car. The miles from the pickup to your destination are the other line, and both are stated before the truck is sent.
Does the flatbed cost more than the wheel-lift?
No. The fee is the same for both. Which one comes is decided by your car, never by the price.
Why is it $129 when I book online?
Because you have done the dispatcher's typing for her. The $20 she would have spent on the phone stays in your pocket. If you are on a live road, forget the form and call.
Do you charge extra at night or on holidays?
No. A holiday at midnight and a Wednesday at noon are priced the same, fee and miles alike.
How is a tanker or a box truck priced?
Per job, from the weight and the location, because it needs a medium or heavy-duty truck rather than a car carrier. Fleets can move to an account with one monthly bill.
Will my insurer accept the receipt?
Yes. It lists the truck, the fee, the miles and any recovery work as separate lines, on paper or by email, which is the format adjusters and roadside plans want.
Anything else? Ask on the call.
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$149 booking fee, $129 online, miles quoted before the truck moves. Flatbed or wheel-lift, picked for your car by the dispatcher.