Clay and Ray Counties

24/7 heavy-duty towing, semi recovery and truck repair in Lawson, MO

Titan Tow & Repair is a 24-hour towing company covering Lawson, MO from our yard in Liberty, Missouri, running out. We send tow trucks for heavy, medium and light duty in Lawson, handle winch-outs and recovery, and repair many trucks at the roadside instead of towing them. A truck is usually with you within about 60 minutes; call (816) 888-8732 for a real ETA.

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Titan heavy-duty wrecker on the shoulder with its boom out.

Roads and landmarks around Lawson in Clay and Ray Counties

Lawson sits north-east of Kearney on the Clay and Ray county line, out where the metro has given way to farm country. There is no interstate through it — everything arrives on two-lane roads. Soft shoulders, narrow bridges and agricultural traffic are the hazards out there, not lane closures.

Rural shoulders around Lawson are softer than they look after rain. If a wheel has dropped off the pavement, tell us how far — it is the difference between a winch-out and a full recovery.

Roads we cover here

Route 69 · Route 116 · I-35 at Kearney

Landmarks and interchanges we cover in Lawson

  • the two-lane approaches from Kearney and Excelsior Springs
  • the farm and haul roads across the Clay and Ray county line
  • the grain and agricultural traffic through town
Lawson, MO — service facts
CityLawson, MO (Clay and Ray Counties)
County pageEvery town we cover in Clay County
ZIP codes covered64062
Arrival timeUsually within about 60 minutes — we confirm a real ETA for your exact location when you call
Hours24 hours a day, every day
Weight classesHeavy, medium and light duty, plus recovery
Wrecker serviceA heavy wrecker and a heavy-duty tow unit for semis and buses; rollback flatbeds for cars, pickups and vans
Roadside assistanceRoadside truck repair and tire service for semis; jump starts, tire changes and lockouts for cars where we can
OperatorsWreckMaster-certified operators; full commercial insurance
PaymentCash, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, fleet accounts, insurance billing
Google rating4.8 from 53 Google reviews
Dispatch(816) 888-8732

Tow truck service in Lawson, near Watkins Mill

Lawson was founded in 1870 and named for L. M. Lawson, a New York businessman, and a post office has run under that name since 1876. Lawson Bank, founded in 1883, is the oldest bank in Ray County. Watkins Mill, now a Missouri state park and a National Historic Landmark, is close to town, and so is the site of KC-10L, a Nike missile base a mile east of Lawson that operated from 1959 to 1964. Lawson City Lake lies north of the city limits, and the town also has an 18-hole golf course.

On the rural roads around Lawson, give us the nearest landmark along with the road name: the lake, the golf course, the state park entrance or the farm road you turned off. A car or pickup gets roadside help or a rollback flatbed. A grain truck, a loaded trailer or a tractor that has left the pavement gets the heavy wrecker and a rigging plan worked out before it leaves Liberty; winch-outs and recovery explains what that involves.

Lawson semi and farm-truck recovery on the Clay and Ray county line

No interstate runs through Lawson. The town straddles the Clay and Ray county line on two-lane roads, with US-69 and I-35 at Kearney the nearest through routes, and Route 92 running between Kearney and Excelsior Springs past Watkins Woolen Mill State Park. Grain trucks and farm rigs share those roads with semis, and the shoulders are narrow and turn soft after rain. When a loaded truck drops a wheel off the edge or ends up in the ditch, WreckMaster-certified operators from Titan Tow & Repair work out the pull first, then winch it back onto the road or stand it upright after an accident, and the heavy-duty tow unit or one of the heavy wreckers takes it from there for heavy-duty towing and recovery.

Outside Lawson, a car or pickup stuck in a ditch, soft mud or a snowbank is winched back to the pavement, and a rollback flatbed carries it off if it will not start or steer. Crews leave Liberty 24 hours a day. Give dispatch the road name, your heading, the nearest landmark such as Watkins Mill, Lawson City Lake or the golf course, and whether there is grain or other freight aboard.

In Lawson

Heavy-duty towing, recovery, roadside assistance and truck repair in Lawson

Towing in Lawson: common questions

Do you come out to Lawson?

Yes, 24 hours a day. Lawson is inside our normal service area north-east of Kearney, reached on the two-lane approaches from Kearney or Excelsior Springs, and it straddles the Clay and Ray county line. We run heavy, medium and light duty out there along with winch-outs and recovery. Much of the traffic is grain and agricultural, so tell us what is on the trailer.

Can you winch a truck out of a soft shoulder near Lawson?

Yes, on the two-lane roads out there and especially after rain. The farm and haul roads across the county line have no real shoulder to speak of, so a wheel that leaves the pavement usually keeps going down. Tell us how far off you are and whether the unit is loaded — that is the difference between a winch-out and a full recovery.