Heavy-duty, semi and semi trailer towing in Kansas City, Missouri

Yes. Heavy-duty towing in Kansas City is dispatched 24 hours a day, every day, including nights, weekends and holidays. A person answers the phone — call (816) 888-8732 and tell us the highway and the mile marker first.

Yes. Uprighting and recovery on the Kansas City interstates is core work for us, and our operators are WreckMaster-certified. Tell us whether the unit is loaded, what it is loaded with, and how it is lying — that decides the rigging we bring and whether we need a lane closure arranged before we arrive.

Yes. We run both sides of the state line, including the I-635 and I-70 approaches into Kansas. Give us the location and the destination and we will tell you honestly whether we are the closest truck to you.

The highway, the direction of travel and the nearest mile marker or exit, then the unit: tractor or tractor-trailer, loaded or empty, and whether it is on the shoulder or in a live lane. Those five things let us send the right truck the first time instead of sending one and coming back.

The I-29 one. Where I-435 shares the road with I-29 and US-71 near Kansas City International Airport, the mileposts and exit numbers follow I-29, so give us the I-29 marker, your direction and the exit behind you. Everywhere else on the ring, I-435's markers keep counting straight through the state line into Kansas, so a marker alone leaves the state open; say which one. For a stopped 18-wheeler, add the load, if there is one, and whether the truck still builds air.

It stops the tow until the body is down or properly supported, and nobody should go under it in the meantime. A raised body is held up only by its hoist; the hoist or hydraulic fault behind it needs a hydraulics specialist, not a wrecker, and material hung up in the bed comes out with the contractor's own equipment. Once the body is down, the truck tows like any heavy straight truck, with the driveline disconnected and the spring brakes released. Downtown, a body that is still raised stays well away from the loop's low clearances, so tell us how high it is when you call.

Yes. Open the account once, giving us a billing contact and your unit numbers, and after that a driver or dispatcher calls with a unit number and nothing is paid at the roadside. Each invoice lists the unit, the driver, where and when, and the destination, so your office can match every charge to a run. Without an account, we take cash, insurance billing and the major cards: Visa, Mastercard, Discover and American Express. A Kansas City carrier with trucks in both states needs only one account, because we cover KCMO and KCK alike.

Wherever its operator decides, usually the operator's own garage or a repair shop that knows that make of bus. Kansas City, Missouri is served by many separate school districts rather than one, so on a school bus the district's own breakdown procedure comes first, and it settles who looks after the students and how they get where they are going. Nothing is hooked while anyone is aboard. Give us the bus type, its length and where the engine is, plus the destination, a contact who will receive it and any gate instructions, and the heavy wrecker takes it straight there.

Yes. 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. That covers a trailer dropped at a dock in the West Bottoms, one left on an interstate shoulder after its tractor was towed, and one whose tractor has gone on without it. Lights, air lines, brakes, landing gear and tires are often fixed where the trailer stands, so it may be ready for the next tractor instead. Call (816) 888-8732 with the trailer number and where it is sitting.