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Towing company near me in Rahway, NJ: downtown, Merck, Route 1, St. Georges Avenue, the west side and the towns next door
Searching for a towing company near you in Rahway? Below is the ground our trucks actually cover. Six pieces of the city, each described by the people who phone us from it, and then the six towns across the line, all handled from the one yard in Linden.
Towing company by part of Rahway: one company, six kinds of caller, the truck chosen to match
Nothing about the dispatcher, the license or the $149 booking fee changes between the Merck gates and the Colonia line; what changes is the truck and how it comes in, because a box truck in a Lawrence Street dock lane, a commuter's sedan on the third level of the station deck, a contractor's van behind a campus gate and an all-wheel-drive SUV in a Milton Avenue driveway each need a different piece of equipment.
The Merck campus and East Lincoln Avenue
Contractors, vendors, delivery fleets and campus employees. Vans and box trucks ride medium-duty trucks, employee-lot batteries get a jump pack before a hook, and the firms that phone every week are billed once a month.
Rahway station, Irving Street, Main Street and UCPAC
Commuters, restaurant staff and theater crowds whose cars quit inside a deck or on a one-way block. Our driver works out the approach from the deck level or the corner, and carries dollies for the levels a flatbed cannot enter.
Route 1 and the strip by East Jersey State Prison
Truck fleets, dock operators, motel guests and anyone stranded on the shoulder. Heavy-duty trucks for tractors, flatbeds for the crash tows, and a driver who covers this road every shift of the week.
St. Georges Avenue and the shopping plazas
Shoppers, shop owners and the garages that hand us their transfers. Plaza lots, tire shops, batteries that die at the Route 27 lights, and the fastest trip we make out of Linden.
Milton Avenue, Westfield Avenue, the hospital and Rahway River Park
The residential west side and the staff at RWJ University Hospital Rahway. Cold-morning no-starts in the driveway, flatbeds under the AWD SUVs, and winch-outs on the park roads after a storm.
Inman Avenue and the Colonia and Clark line
The west end, where Rahway's streets run on into Colonia and Clark, with Parkway Exit 135 a few minutes away. The longest trip from the yard, and the tows that finish in another town. Turnpike and Parkway shoulders are served by the Authority's authorized garages. Book with us and we take the car from the exit or the garage's lot.
A gate, a deck level, a plaza name or a corner is all the dispatcher needs to assign the right company truck.
Call (908) 666-3168Back to Towing Company RahwayWhere a Rahway towing company gets called most: Route 1, St. Georges Avenue, Central Avenue, the station and Exit 135
Most of our Rahway calls land on Route 1 between the Linden line and Avenel, along St. Georges Avenue through the plazas, on Central Avenue heading for Parkway Exit 135, around Rahway station and the downtown decks, and on East Lincoln Avenue and Lawrence Street where the vans and box trucks do their work.
- Route 1 from the Linden line to Avenel
- Route 1 at Lawrence Street and East Hazelwood Avenue
- Route 1 at New Brunswick Avenue and the prison strip
- St. Georges Avenue (Route 27) through the plazas
- Central Avenue and Garden State Parkway Exit 135
- Garden State Parkway Exit 136 (the Linden side)
- NJ Turnpike Exit 12 (Carteret)
- East Lincoln Avenue and the Merck gates
- Rahway station, Irving Street and the decks
- Westfield Avenue and Milton Avenue
- Inman Avenue toward Colonia
- Elizabeth Avenue and the Linden line
A car with any life left in it should be coaxed out of the travel lane, into a side street, a plaza driveway or a jughandle. Where you come to rest has no bearing on the quote, and a truck reaches a safe spot faster than a live lane. A car with no life left means flashers on, you on the far side of the guardrail, and the dispatcher told which road, which direction and which cross street you last passed.
Broken down on one of these roads this minute? Phone, and you will be told where to stand.
Call from the roadThe towns that border Rahway are covered by the same company at the same fee
Linden, Clark, Woodbridge Township with its Avenel and Colonia sections, and Carteret on the far bank of the river all share a line with Rahway, and each of them is worked by our own dispatcher and our own trucks for the same $149 booking fee, so a tow that crosses one of those lines is simply a short local run.
Linden
Where the yard is. A tow from Rahway to a garage on Wood Avenue or Route 1 in Linden is the smallest mileage figure we ever quote.
Clark
West along Central Avenue or past Rahway River Park. The shops by Parkway Exit 135 and on Raritan Road receive plenty of our west-side tows.
Woodbridge Township
South on Route 1 or St. Georges Avenue. The Route 1 dealers and the garages in Woodbridge proper are only a few miles from the Rahway line.
Avenel
Straight down Route 1 past the prison. A tow from the corridor into Avenel is quoted as a handful of miles on top of the fee.
Colonia
Out Inman Avenue from the west end. Colonia driveway to Rahway garage, or the other way round, is the fee plus a couple of miles.
Carteret
Over the Rahway River on the east side. Its warehouses and Turnpike Exit 12 are a quick run from Lawrence Street on the same truck.
Rahway to any of those six, or back again, is priced as the booking fee plus a few miles and read out as one number. Beyond them, the shore, Staten Island or another state is a long distance tow on one company flatbed with the tolls built into the quote.
Inside Rahway or over any of its borders, the same dispatcher picks up.
Call (908) 666-3168Contact dispatchService area: common questions
Short answers to what people ask about this page; the dispatcher can answer the rest.
Is there a towing company near me in Rahway right now?
Nearly always. Our trucks move between Route 1, Merck, the station and St. Georges Avenue all day and night, and the yard is eight minutes away in Linden. The window you are quoted is measured from the nearest truck's real position.
Which part of Rahway does your company reach first?
St. Georges Avenue north of Westfield Avenue and the Route 1 lights by the Linden line, both minutes from the yard. Inman Avenue and the Clark side take longest from Linden, though a truck already in town is often nearer.
Do you cover the towns that border Rahway?
Yes. Linden, Clark, Woodbridge, Avenel, Colonia and Carteret are all answered by our dispatcher, driven by our drivers and booked at the same $149 fee.
Will your trucks go onto the Merck campus?
Yes. Name the gate and the location of the vehicle and our driver checks in with security on arrival. Contractor and vendor fleets can hold an account billed monthly.
Anything else? Ask on the call.
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Call nowNeed a towing company in Rahway that owns what it sends? The yard is eight minutes up the road
Company trucks, company drivers, company dispatcher. $149 to book by phone, $129 online, mileage spoken before anything rolls.