Tow Truck and Towing in Waterloo and Cedar Falls, 24/7

You get a tow for your car, SUV, pickup or van to the shop, dealer or home you pick. Flatbed or wheel-lift, whichever the vehicle calls for. Hooking up and the first stretch are covered by the from-price. Long distances, winching, crash scenes and storage raise it, and the call gives you the full price first.

A car that cannot be driven off I-380, US-20, US-218 or a busy Waterloo street needs a tow. Until the truck pulls up, your one job is staying safe. Leave the hazards flashing and stay in your seat with the belt on. If a guardrail runs alongside, away from the lanes, waiting behind it works too. After a crash, with anyone hurt, or with the car blocking a lane, call 911 first.

Then call (319) 271-6565 with the road, the exit, mile marker or cross street, and your direction. Tell us where the car should end up, and we give you the price and the timing right then.

Cars, SUVs, pickups and vans all ride on a wheel-lift or a flatbed, whichever suits the vehicle. Give us the make and model, and say if it is all-wheel drive, low or damaged. The truck your vehicle needs is part of the price you hear. Ask at the start of the call about a motorcycle, a motor home, a trailer or anything heavier than a pickup.

Waterloo clears priority and emergency streets first, and it gets to residential streets only after 3 inches have fallen. In a declared snow emergency, the city asks residents to move cars off the streets. Snow routes are in effect for a set period, and the 48-hour parking violation is enforced. For the downtown snow clean-up, every vehicle has to leave street-side parking.

Unattended cars do get towed. For the snow emergency that began at 11 p.m. on December 29, 2020, city leaders said all unattended vehicles would be towed for snow removal. After a January 2021 snow emergency, police sent owners of towed cars to the Street Department, not the police. That department's number, 319-291-4267, is still the one on the city's snow page.

If a car that will not start sits on a snow route, a tow you arrange with us, from $117, moves it before the city has to.

Some Cedar Valley tows are not roadside jobs at all. Under Iowa Code 321.89, police take custody of a vehicle left illegally on public property for more than 24 hours. They also take one parked on a highway where they judge it a hazard to traffic. Since July 1, 2026, the owner's notice goes out by certified mail within 10 days. The owner then has 20 days to reclaim the car by paying the towing, storage and notice costs.

While a towing company holds it, the registered owner may collect items such as medicine, a phone or a wallet. That is allowed once in those 20 days, with a written list, in business hours. Those charges follow the statute, not our price list.

Cedar Falls and the University of Northern Iowa tow too. When Cedar Falls police enforced the 48-hour parking ordinance in January 2024, a car not moved within 24 hours of its ticket was to be towed at the owner's expense. UNI can tow or impound a car without warning, at the owner's expense, once it has five unpaid citations or $50 in unpaid penalties.

When Iowa closes highways in a blizzard, the road stays shut while crews clear the snow and ice. Law enforcement may also need to remove stranded vehicles before it reopens. If you are stuck on a closed stretch, say so on the call and give the nearest mile marker. The timing we give you then allows for the closure.

Have the keys out and decide where the car is going: your own mechanic, a dealer or home. Take out what you will need tonight, from a phone charger to medicine, before the car is hooked up. If the car is headed somewhere you are not, ask us on the call how you will get home.