24 hour towing in the Ironbound, Newark, NJ: boxed-in cars, late dinners and flooded blocks

Between Penn Station and Wilson Avenue the curb never empties. Most calls are a dead battery after dinner, keys locked in the car, or a car so boxed in it cannot be driven out even when it starts. Tell dispatch the cross street and which side of Ferry you are on; the truck approaches from the side street, not from Ferry itself.

Wider streets, more trucks, industrial lots and the approaches to the Turnpike's Exit 15E and Raymond Boulevard. Flat tires from debris, box trucks that will not start before a morning run, and cars towed off the highway that need to get from the exit to a shop.

Rome, Ferry east of the parkway, the streets down toward Riverfront Park and the rail bridges flood in a hard rain. A car that stalled in water goes on a flatbed, never a wheel-lift, and the driver checks the depth before backing in. Do not try to restart it.

Between the airport approach and the river: Doremus Avenue's north end, the truck yards, Avenue L and the streets behind the Ironbound stadium. Medium and heavy-duty trucks for the fleets, wheel-lifts for the employee cars that die in the lots at shift change.