The truck that answers is working Vanderburgh County right now, not a national line that auctions your breakdown to whoever bids lowest. You get the hook fee and the per-mile figure to your destination before the driver rolls, and that is what the receipt says. Flatbeds for anything all-wheel-drive, electric or wrecked, and a winch on every truck for the ditch off Highway 41 and the low spots that flood when Pigeon Creek comes up.
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Six boxes, about thirty seconds. You pick when to be called back, and that is when the phone rings.
Or call (812) 266-9502A driver who knows the Lloyd's construction zones intersection by intersection, a number that does not change at delivery, and the correct truck the first time.
The driver taking the job is in Evansville, Newburgh or on the Highway 41 corridor. Inside the city, arrival on an ordinary night is measured in minutes, not hours.
You hear the hook fee and the per-mile figure to your destination before the truck moves. Nothing is added at delivery.
A stopped car in a Lloyd construction lane or on I-69 is a hazard to everyone behind it. Those, and a child locked in a car, jump the line.
From McCutchanville down to the riverfront and over the twin bridges to Henderson. Written around this city's own roads and its own county fee schedule.
There is nothing to fill in. The work is quoted before any of it starts.
Nearest cross street or exit, does it roll, what is under the hood driving it. Those three answers pick the truck and the gear it carries.
A dead battery, an all-wheel-drive car with a bent wheel, and a car nose-down in a ditch off 41 are three different trucks. Naming it first keeps one trip from becoming two.
Live-lane hazards roll immediately. The rest get an arrival window you can plan around. You learn which group you are in and the total before the truck moves.
Illustrative photographs of the kinds of work described on this page. No specific Evansville property is shown.
Four things move the price of a tow in Evansville. None of them is a secret and all of them are settled before the truck leaves.
The hook is fixed and the distance is metered. A tow from Lamasco to a shop on Diamond Avenue is small; the same car to a dealer in Newburgh or to Henderson is a different figure.
A flatbed's mileage runs above a wheel-lift's, and all-wheel-drive, electric and low cars have no choice about it. Recovery trucks with a winch carry a rate of their own.
Pulling a car out of the ditch along Highway 41 or off a flooded underpass is billed by time on the winch line before the tow begins.
Nights and holidays carry a surcharge across the industry. A Lloyd construction zone or a crash closure adds time, and you are told both up front.
Nearly every call sounds like one of these four. Each one opens the page that says what gets done about it.
Evansville kills batteries from both ends. Summer heat in the Ohio Valley cooks the plates all August, and the first hard freeze in January finds the damage. A single click or rapid clicking with dimming lights is the battery; a jump gets it going. Silence with bright dash lights is the starter, and that car rides to a shop.
Keys on the seat at Eastland Mall, a fob that died in the cold at a station on Green River Road, or a child inside with the doors locked in a Riverside driveway. An air wedge and a reach tool get most doors open in minutes without marking paint or disturbing wiring, and a child locked inside goes to the front of the board.
Most cars sold in the last decade ship without a spare, and Evansville streets after a freeze-thaw week tear sidewalls that sealant cannot close. A car with a real spare gets it mounted on the shoulder. A car with a shredded tire or a bent wheel rides a flatbed to a tire shop, and that is a tow rather than a roadside stop.
After a collision at Burkhardt, Green River or Vann, the car has to leave the roadway before traffic can move again, and that is recovery work. The truck winches the car onto a flatbed even with a wheel folded under, sweeps the glass, and takes it to your body shop or to the county's storage lot, where the fee schedule is set by contract.
Cannot tell which one fits? Say what the car is doing and the dispatcher picks the truck.
Checked against primary sources on 2026-09-07. Every claim below links to where it came from.
INDOT's Lloyd4U program, announced in 2020 and estimated at about $173 million as of 2023, is reconstructing a dozen intersections and replacing bridges and pavement along the Lloyd Expressway's 14.3 miles through Vanderburgh County. Construction began in 2024. The Vann Avenue and Stockwell Road intersections on the East Lloyd are complete; Burkhardt Road, Cross Pointe and Eagle Crest boulevards, and Red Bank Road are under construction and expected to finish by the end of 2026. West of US 41 the expressway is signed State Road 62 and east of it State Road 66.
Why it matters: Barrier walls and narrowed shoulders mean a stalled car in a work zone becomes a lane closure, a truck may have to reach the scene from the next crossover, and a crash that closes the Lloyd puts every recovery truck in the county on the expressway at once.
Sources: thelloyd4u.com · news.wnin.org · en.wikipedia.org
Vanderburgh County's Agreement for the Towing and Storage of Nuisance, Wrecked and Abandoned Vehicles, with the contractor for the 2018-2020 term, permits only listed fees on county-ordered tows: $60.00 to tow an automobile, pickup truck, SUV or passenger van; $50.00 for motorcycles, trucks over one ton, semis, buses and equipment; $50.00 per hour for recovery; $50.00 per hour plus $1.50 per mile for tows outside the county; $12.00 per day storage for all vehicles; $50.00 for a jump start at the scene; and no fee for dry runs or refused service. The contractor must have equipment at the scene within twenty minutes of being contacted, and must keep a 24-hour, 365-day service and a staffed storage lot at 1277 Maxwell Avenue.
Why it matters: These are negotiated volume rates for county-ordered tows and do not bind a private tow, but they are the only published local floor for what the work costs, and they show what a fair itemized bill looks like: a flat tow, hourly recovery, daily storage, nothing for a dry run.
Source: evansville.granicus.com
The Evansville Police Department's towed-vehicles page directs owners of police-towed vehicles to Tri-State Towing at 1501 N. Evans, Evansville, IN 47711, (812) 476-4004, states that only the registered owner with picture ID can recover the vehicle, and advises calling first to confirm the lot is open and that the proper paperwork is in hand. Vehicles towed for abandoned-vehicle violations are handled through Wolf's Auto Auction, (812) 425-4576.
Why it matters: A spouse or a friend cannot collect the car. Bring the registration or title and photo ID yourself, call ahead, and go quickly because storage accrues by the day.
Sources: evansvillepolice.com · evansvillepolice.com
Indiana Code 9-22-1-19 requires a public agency or towing service, within three business days after a vehicle is removed to a storage yard, to search the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System or an equivalent database to identify the owner and any lienholder, and, not later than three business days after obtaining the name and address, to notify them of the agency or towing service's name, address and telephone number, that storage charges are accruing, that the vehicle is subject to sale if unclaimed, and the earliest possible date and location of the public sale.
Why it matters: The law is built so an owner hears within about a week that the car is in a lot and the meter is running. Waiting for the insurer to call back is the expensive choice.
Sources: law.justia.com · in.gov
Only what the county contract allows. Vanderburgh County's towing and storage agreement, the one that governs tows ordered through Central Dispatch or a deputy, lists the permitted fees line by line: a flat tow charge for a car, pickup or SUV, a lower one for motorcycles, an hourly rate for recovery, a per-day storage rate, a fixed charge for a jump start at the scene, and no fee at all for a dry run or a refused service. It also requires the contractor's truck to be at the scene within twenty minutes of the call or the county can send someone else. Charging anything not on that list is a breach of the contract. A tow you call for yourself is different: no schedule applies, which is why the price belongs before the hook, not after.
The Evansville Police Department sends its tows to one storage lot on the north side, and its towed-vehicle page is explicit that only the registered owner, with photo ID, can recover the car. Call the lot before driving over: confirm it is open and ask exactly what paperwork they want, which is normally registration or title, ID and proof of insurance. Storage is charged by the day. Indiana law obliges the towing company to run a national title search within three business days of the tow and to notify you within three more, so the meter is running from day one and the notice will not arrive before the bill has grown. Anything loose inside the car can usually be collected during lot hours even while the car itself stays put.
Because the Lloyd is a construction zone and will be until the end of 2026. INDOT's Lloyd4U program, roughly a hundred and seventy-three million dollars across the expressway's fourteen miles, is rebuilding a dozen intersections. Vann Avenue and Stockwell Road are done; Burkhardt Road, Cross Pointe and Eagle Crest, and Red Bank Road are under construction with completion expected by the end of 2026. Lane shifts, barrier walls and narrowed shoulders mean a truck cannot always stop beside a stalled car, and sometimes has to come at it from the next crossover. When a crash closes the Lloyd, as the August 2026 bus collision did near Cross Pointe, every truck in the county is on it and everything else waits. You get the real window, not a flattering one.
Get a truck that is already working Vanderburgh County, the hook and the miles priced before anything is attached, and the car delivered where you said. On the Lloyd or I-69, stay belted in with the hazards on until the truck with the light bar is parked behind you.
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