Towing and roadside assistance in Los Angeles, CA
Freeway-shoulder recovery and canyon-road towing across LA County, dispatched 24/7.
Service area
Greater Los Angeles, California
Mobile dispatch only — no walk-in location.
Hours
24 hours, 7 days a week (Los Angeles time)
What a breakdown in Los Angeles actually looks like
Los Angeles breakdowns split into two very different jobs. On the freeway network you need someone who can reach a live shoulder fast and clear it before CHP does it for you. In the canyons and hillside neighborhoods you need a truck narrow enough to turn around on a road with no shoulder at all. We dispatch differently for each.
Overheating is the LA signature call. Stop-and-go on the 405 in August, a long climb up the Sepulveda Pass, and an aging cooling system is all it takes. If you are steaming rather than fully dead, tell dispatch — sometimes the right answer is a coolant top-off and a short tow to the nearest shop rather than a full recovery.
Roads and corridors we work most in Greater Los Angeles
I-405 through the Sepulveda Pass
Our single highest-volume segment. Overheating and transmission calls concentrate on the northbound climb.
I-10 (Santa Monica Freeway)
Narrow shoulders between downtown and La Cienega; we stage at off-ramps where possible.
US-101 (Hollywood Freeway)
Tight left-side shoulders through the Cahuenga Pass make right-side recovery unsafe in places.
I-5 and SR-134 interchange
Multi-level ramps around Griffith Park where GPS pins frequently land on the wrong deck — we confirm your level before rolling.
Mulholland Drive and the canyon roads
Topanga, Laurel and Coldwater canyons need a short-wheelbase truck; full-size flatbeds cannot turn around on much of it.
Local conditions that drive our Los Angeles call volume
Heat and cooling systems
Valley temperatures regularly clear 100°F from June through September. Overheating calls in Van Nuys, Woodland Hills and Burbank spike hard in that window, and they cluster in the late afternoon rather than midday.
Canyon-road access
Roads like Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Topanga Canyon Boulevard have no shoulder, blind curves and, in places, no turnaround for a mile. We send short-wheelbase equipment and, on the steepest grades, a winch-capable truck.
Freeway shoulder law
California requires you to move a disabled vehicle off the roadway when it is safe to do so, and CHP will initiate a removal on a blocked lane. Stay behind the guardrail, not in the car, and tell us your nearest call-box or mile marker.
When we are busiest, and how long we take
Weekday peaks run 7-10am and 3-7pm on the 405 and 10. Summer afternoons in the San Fernando Valley produce a second, heat-driven spike between 2pm and 6pm.
Typical arrival is 30-55 minutes on the freeway network. Canyon and hillside addresses run 45-80 minutes because the equipment that fits is a smaller pool of trucks.
Other metros we dispatch in
See all service areasThis page describes our Greater Los Angeles dispatch coverage. Road, weather and response-time details are drafted with AI assistance from public road and climate data, then reviewed by our dispatch team for this market. Response windows are estimates, not guarantees — the dispatcher on the phone will give you the current number.