Towing in Seattle, WA

The job goes to an independent, licensed operator working in and around Seattle. Tell us where the vehicle is and what happened, and we will say straight away whether we have someone for it, before you commit to anything.

For a light-duty vehicle the indicative band on this page runs $95 – $395, depending on how far the vehicle has to travel and what it takes to load it. That is a hook-up fee plus a rate for every loaded mile, built from national market ranges rather than a Seattle rate card. Winching, a heavy vehicle or an after-hours call add to it, and the local operator confirms the final figure before anyone is dispatched.

Snow is infrequent but the city's hills make even a small amount serious, and a cold rain that freezes overnight strands drivers on gradients that are trivial in dry weather. Persistent wet weather is harder on tires and brakes than the cold is.

The routes that carry the traffic: I-5, I-90, SR-99, SR-520, and SR-509. Give dispatch the route number and the nearest exit or mile marker, plus your direction of travel. On a divided highway the side you are stopped on decides which way the truck has to approach.

Yes. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Seattle Paine Field International Airport (PAE) sit in this area. Airport property is managed land, so say which terminal, deck or lot the vehicle is in when you book: access rules, and where a truck is allowed to wait, are set by the airport authority rather than by the operator.

Water and hills constrain the road network, so a blockage on I-5, the SR-99 tunnel or a floating bridge has very few alternatives around it. Stopping inside the tunnel or on a bridge span is not an option, which makes clearance the first priority.

Electric vehicles make up an unusually large share of traffic here. Range drops on the mountain passes east of the city, where sustained climbing uses far more energy than the same distance on flat ground, and regeneration only returns part of it on the way down.