24 hour towing in Port Reading and Sewaren, NJ: the yards, the waterfront and the interchange at two in the morning

The road along the yards carries tractors, tankers and the employee cars of everyone who works a night shift there. Flat tires from debris and vans that quit at a gate are the common calls. Say the cross street or the gate; medium and heavy-duty trucks leave the same yard as the rollbacks.

The streets near the boat club and the generating station sit low, and a hard rain on a high tide puts salt water across some of them. A car that stalled in it goes on a flatbed, never a wheel-lift, and the driver checks the depth before backing in. Do not restart it; call and say it was in water.

Exit 11 is where the Turnpike, the Parkway, Route 9 and Route 440 meet, and at two in the morning it is all trucks. The Turnpike and Parkway shoulders belong to the Authority's garages; the ramp bottoms, Route 9 and Route 440 are ours. 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.

Route 35 begins in Woodbridge and runs through Sewaren to the Perth Amboy line with stretches of no shoulder and heavy overnight traffic. Woodbridge Avenue ties Port Reading back to Main Street. Get off at the next light if the car still moves; if not, hazards on and give the direction and the last cross street.