Titan Tow & Repair provides 24/7 heavy-duty and semi truck towing across Kansas City, northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas, on both the Missouri and Kansas sides of the metro, from our yard in Liberty, MO. We tow tractors, loaded trailers, box trucks, buses, hot shots and equipment with a heavy wrecker and WreckMaster-certified operators, and recover units that are stuck, jackknifed or rolled.
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A loaded tractor-trailer is not a bigger car. It needs a rated wrecker, a rated operator and a plan before anything gets hooked. That is what we send.
Also called: semi towing · tractor-trailer towing · semi trailer towing · 18-wheeler towing · big rig towing · heavy wrecker service · commercial truck towing · bus towing
If it is on this list, say so on the phone and the right unit is dispatched the first time.
| Service | Heavy-duty towing |
|---|---|
| Available | 24 hours a day, every day — nights, weekends and holidays |
| Dispatched from | 2751 Liberty Landing Rd., Liberty, MO 64068 |
| Coverage | Kansas City, northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas, from St. Joseph and Cameron to Topeka — every town and county |
| Arrival | Usually within about 60 minutes for most of the metro — a real ETA for your exact location when you call |
| Phone | (816) 888-8732 |
Tractor and trailer type, what it is loaded with, and where it sits. Highway and mile marker if you have them.
You get told which unit is coming and how far out it is before you agree to anything.
To your shop, your yard, a dealer or ours at 2751 Liberty Landing Rd. in Liberty.
Describe the vehicle and where it is sitting, and the truck that can actually move it is the one that comes.
| What comes out | Tell us when you call | |
|---|---|---|
| Semi tractors and loaded trailers | A heavy wrecker with rated rigging | Tractor and trailer type and what it is loaded with |
| Buses and motorcoaches | A heavy wrecker, the same as a tractor | The length and rough weight |
| Hot shots with gooseneck or flatbed rigs | The unit that suits it, not whatever is free | The trailer length and whether it is loaded |
| Stuck, jackknifed or rolled units | A recovery with WreckMaster-certified operators | How the unit is lying and whether it is loaded |
| Cars and pickups | A rollback flatbed | The vehicle and where it is sitting |
Really great guy quick, knowledgeable and efficient and fair pricing. If you have one of your trucks get into a jam I highly recommend Titan and his crew. Overall great experience considering the circumstances. Thank you for all your help and kindness!
Every city we cover gets the same service from the same yard. Pick yours for local detail — corridors, drive time and what tends to go wrong there.
How Much Does It Cost to Tow a Semi Truck? (Kansas City) — What decides semi truck towing cost: why heavy-duty tows are quoted per job, every factor that moves the bill, and what to ask before you agree.
How to Choose a Heavy-Duty Towing Company — What to verify before a breakdown — insurance, recovery certification, owned equipment and real dispatch — plus the warning signs of a predatory operator.
How a Bus or Motorcoach Gets Towed Safely — Why buses and motorcoaches need a different tow than a semi: passengers first, long overhangs, air suspension, the driveline, and where they are lifted.
Does AAA Cover Semi Trucks or Box Truck Towing? — What AAA's own member guide for Missouri and Kansas says about commercial vehicles, weight limits and RVs, and what to ask your club before you need a tow.
Where to Place Warning Triangles When a Semi Breaks Down — The federal placement rule for semi truck warning triangles, at 10, 100 and 200 feet, plus hills, curves and night, and how to set them out safely.
Rotator vs Wrecker: Which Heavy Tow Truck Does It Need? — What a rotator does that a standard heavy wrecker cannot, when a scene genuinely needs one, and why most heavy tows and recoveries do not.
Can a Trailer Be Towed Without Its Tractor? — Yes, and often it should be. How a semi-trailer is moved without its original tractor, what has to work first, and who has to authorize it.
Hot Shot Truck Broke Down: Who Actually Tows It? — Why a hot shot with a loaded gooseneck falls between rollbacks and heavy wreckers, what to tell dispatch, and how truck and trailer each get moved.
More general questions — pricing, insurance, response times — are answered on the FAQ page.
Kansas City is a freight city before it is anything else, and a heavy call here is usually an interstate call in traffic. Where the unit sits decides everything about how it comes out.
Heavy-duty towing in Kansas CityThis is home. The yard is inside the city, so a Liberty call does not start with a drive — and a vehicle can be dropped to us or collected at any hour.
Heavy-duty towing in LibertyThe state line is the only thing about this side of the metro that looks simple on a map. Which agency runs the scene, which number you dial and where the mile markers start all change the moment a truck stops in Wyandotte County.
Heavy-duty towing in Kansas City, KSSt. Joseph is the top of the run, not another metro suburb, and a call up here is a real drive for us. That is exactly why describing the unit accurately matters more here than anywhere else we cover — we would far rather get it right on the phone than arrive with the wrong truck.
Heavy-duty towing in St. JosephFrom Route 7 in Blue Springs, I-70 is down to two lanes each way, and at Oak Grove it leaves Jackson County for gently rolling country. A tractor-trailer that stops in a lane out there has shut half its side of the interstate, so on an Oak Grove call we ask where the rig is sitting before we ask what it is.
Heavy-duty towing in Oak GroveTopeka is where I-70 turns into a toll road on its way east, and where the interstate squeezes through downtown on a viaduct while I-470 loops around the south side. Which of those roads a truck stopped on decides who runs the scene and which way the wrecker comes in.
Heavy-duty towing in TopekaMost trailer faults do not stop a trailer moving. They stop it being legal to move, which is worse — the load sits while the paperwork says it cannot go anywhere.
Read about mobile trailer repairBad rigging wrecks loads and hurts people. Recovery is the part of this job where training is the whole difference.
Read about winch-outs & recoveryA motorhome is a house built on a truck chassis, and the chassis decides the tow. Tell us the class and the length, and the truck that fits it is the one that leaves the yard.
Read about rv & motorhome towingOur service truck carries the parts and the tools. Faster for your driver, cheaper for your office, and the load keeps moving.
Read about mobile truck repairTitan Tow & Repair prices heavy-duty towing per job, not off a flat menu, because it depends on the truck that has to be sent, how far it runs, whether the unit is loaded and whether recovery work is needed. Call (816) 888-8732 and we will quote your job before we roll.
Usually yes, on both counts. Our heavy wreckers move loaded semi trailers without the tractor and without unloading the freight, provided the trailer can be made safe to travel: brakes released, lights working, tires and wheel ends sound and the landing gear fully up. If the load has shifted or the trailer is damaged, we will tell you on scene whether it has to be transferred first.
Yes. We handle winch-outs, uprighting, jackknifed tractors and load-shift recovery with WreckMaster-certified operators and rated rigging. Recovery is a separate skill from towing and we staff it that way — a tow is about moving a unit that is already sitting right, and a recovery is about getting it there without adding damage. The two things that decide the plan are how the unit is lying and whether it is loaded, so tell us both when you call, and send a photo if it is safe to take one.
In everyday use, yes — a wrecker is the truck, and "wrecker service" is what people in this part of Missouri usually call towing. The distinction that actually matters is not the word but the class of truck. A light-duty wrecker or a flatbed handles cars and pickups; a semi tractor, a loaded trailer or a bus needs a heavy wrecker with the boom rating and the rigging to lift it. We run both, so you do not need to know which one you want before you call — describe the vehicle and where it is sitting, and we will send the truck that can actually move it.
Heavy-duty towing is towing for the heaviest road vehicles: semi tractors, tractor-trailers, loaded trailers, buses and coaches, dump trucks and equipment. They are beyond what a rollback flatbed can carry, so Titan Tow & Repair moves them with a heavy wrecker and rigging made for that weight. Box trucks, straight trucks and fleet vehicles are medium duty, and cars, pickups, vans and smaller RVs are light duty and ride a flatbed.
A heavy wrecker is a heavy-duty tow truck built around a boom at the rear that raises and extends, a set of winches, and an underlift that goes under a truck's front axle or frame to lift one end and tow it. It is the truck for semi tractors, loaded trailers, buses and equipment, including units that are stuck, jackknifed or rolled over. Titan Tow & Repair runs a heavy wrecker and a second heavy-duty tow unit from its yard in Liberty.
Usually within about 60 minutes for most of the metro, with a real ETA for your exact location on the phone rather than a guess. The wrecker leaves the Titan Tow & Repair yard in Liberty, and traffic, weather and exactly where you are sitting decide the real number.
Yes — 24-hour heavy-duty towing on the Kansas City interstates is most of what Titan Tow & Repair does. The yard sits in Liberty minutes from I-35, and we run the metro loop and the freight corridors that cross it around the clock: I-35, I-70, I-435, I-635, I-29 and US-71, every day including holidays. A person answers the phone at any hour, not a service taking messages, and dispatch starts while you are still describing the truck. Tell us the highway and mile marker first — on an interstate call that is the detail that matters most.
Yes. The state line runs through the middle of this metro and freight does not stop at it, so neither do we — Kansas City, Kansas and the Kansas side are inside our service area the same as the Missouri side, west on I-70 through Lawrence to Topeka and north through Leavenworth to Atchison. That takes in the interstates that cross over: I-70, I-435 and I-635. Tell us the highway and which side of the line you are sitting on when you call, because on a metro job that decides the approach more than the mileage does.
Yes. Hot shots sit in an awkward gap — heavier and longer than a pickup, lighter than a class 8 tractor — and plenty of companies are set up for one end or the other but not the middle. We run both ends out of one yard, so a dually with a gooseneck or a flatbed rig gets the truck that actually suits it rather than whatever happens to be free. Tell us the trailer length and whether it is loaded; on a hot shot those two answers usually decide which unit comes out.
Yes. Buses and coaches are heavy-wrecker work and we handle them the same way as tractors — school buses, transit and motorcoaches included. It is one phone number whatever the vehicle, and telling us the length and rough weight is what lets us send the right truck the first time.
