24 hour towing in Fords and Hopelawn, NJ: Route 9 after the shops close and the streets down to Perth Amboy

Tire shops, dealers and repair garages line Route 9 through Fords, and every one of them is dark by evening. A car that dies at a Route 9 light at 11 p.m. has nowhere to limp to. We tow it to whichever of those shops you choose and leave it at the gate with the keys handled the way the shop asks, so it is first in line in the morning.

Tight lots, cars parked on both sides, and a lot of no-starts on cold mornings before the 6 a.m. shift. The driver loads from the traffic side and asks you to wait on the sidewalk. Give the nearest cross street and which side of the avenue.

Hopelawn sits between Route 9 and the Perth Amboy line, with Florida Grove Road as its spine. The hospital lots just over the line produce dead batteries at the end of every night shift, and a jump is the smaller number. Route 440 and the Parkway's Exit 127 are a minute away for anyone leaving the highway.

The two roads that tie Fords to Woodbridge proper and Perth Amboy. Curb parking, jughandles at Route 9 and heavy overnight traffic from the Raritan Center warehouses in Edison. If the car still moves, take the next side street; if it does not, hazards on and tell us the direction and the last light.