24/7 Tow Truck & Roadside Assistance
Flatbed | Heavy Duty | Accident Recovery | Lockouts | Jump Starts
Call Now (862) 369-7600Broke down on McCarter Highway? Battery dead in a Weequahic driveway? One call and a truck is on the way. Locally owned since 2011.
Nights, snowstorms, 3 a.m. on a Sunday. A real person in Newark picks up, not a call center in another state that dispatches whoever's cheapest. You get a name and a truck number.
You hear the price before the truck leaves the yard. No mystery "gate fees," no padded mileage. If a private lot towed you, we'll tell you what the state actually lets them charge.
Flatbeds for the AWD and low cars, soft straps on the wheels, no chains dragged across your bumper. Fifteen years of hauling everything from Civics to box trucks off these streets.
Brick City Towing & Recovery is a locally owned Newark towing company based right here in the city. We started in 2011 with one rollback and a lot of long nights, and we've been running a full towing service across Essex County ever since. Whether you're a resident who woke up to a dead battery, a commuter stranded on the Parkway shoulder, or a shop that needs a fleet truck relocated, we handle it.
Our services include local car towing, flatbed towing, heavy-duty and truck towing, long-distance transport, motorcycle towing, accident and collision recovery, winch-outs, roadside assistance, jump starts, flat-tire changes, emergency fuel delivery, car lockouts, and private-property towing. Residential and commercial, one vehicle or a whole lot. If it has wheels and it won't move, we've probably towed one. Looking for a dependable towing company in Newark that actually answers? That's us.
Our service areas include: Irvington, East Orange, Belleville, Bloomfield, Harrison, Kearny, Elizabeth, Hillside, Union, Maplewood, South Orange, Orange, West Orange, Nutley, Jersey City, Bayonne, Union City, Hoboken and Newark Liberty Airport, and many more. If your town isn't on the list, call us anyway, odds are we cover it.
Or fill out the quote form up top for a free, no-obligation estimate.
A flatbed is the safest way to move most cars, and it's what we reach for by default. The whole vehicle rides up on the bed, wheels off the ground, so there's no wear on the transmission and nothing scraping the road. All-wheel-drive crossovers, lowered coupes, classics, EVs, and anything with a dead axle belong on a flatbed. We run two rollbacks out of Newark and can usually have one to you inside half an hour.
Box truck died on Frelinghuysen Ave? Dump truck stuck at a job site? Our heavy wrecker handles the big stuff, box trucks, buses, RVs, tractors, and loaded commercial vehicles that a standard rollback can't touch. For truck towing in Newark, tell dispatch the vehicle's weight and whether it's loaded so we send the right rig the first time. We do fleet and roadside DOT recovery for local companies too.
A landlord on Bergen Street called us last winter after a wreck left two cars blocking the whole intersection during the morning rush. We cleared both, swept the glass, and had traffic moving in under twenty minutes. After a collision we work with you and the police, get the vehicle off the road safely, and haul it to the body shop or storage of your choice. Insurance-friendly paperwork, no runaround.
Slid off into the mud along the Passaic? Backed into a ditch off a service road? Dropped a wheel over a curb in a snowbank? We winch vehicles out of ruts, ditches, snow and soft shoulders without adding new damage. One thing we learned the hard way: we don't do winch-outs on the river mudflats anymore after a truck of ours sank to the frame down there in 2015. Anywhere with solid ground, though, we'll get you out.
Not every call needs a tow. Dead battery, flat tire, keys locked in the car, or you ran the tank dry on the way to the airport, we fix a lot of these right on the spot and you drive away. Every truck carries a jump pack, a plug kit and a floor jack, a case of bottled water, and a couple of phone chargers because half the people we help are stranded with a dead phone too.
Locked out with the engine running and the kids inside? That jumps the line, call and say so. We pop standard car doors with proper lockout tools, no coat hangers, no broken window trim. We also jump dead batteries, bring gas or diesel when you run out, and swap on your spare when you catch a nail on Broad Street. Simple stuff, done fast, so you're not stuck waiting on a two-hour roadside-plan queue.
Also available: local car towing, long-distance transport, motorcycle towing, 24-hour emergency towing, private-property & police-ordered towing, and straight-up cheap local tows with published rates.
Nobody likes a tow bill that's a mystery until the truck shows up. Here's the ballpark so you can plan. These are typical ranges for consensual tows you call in yourself, final price depends on distance, vehicle and time of day, and we confirm it on the phone first.
| Service | Typical Newark Range |
|---|---|
| Local tow (first 5–10 miles) | $95 – $150 |
| Each additional mile | $3 – $6 |
| Jump start | $65 – $95 |
| Flat tire change (your spare) | $65 – $95 |
| Car lockout | $70 – $110 |
| Fuel delivery (plus fuel) | $65 – $95 |
| Winch-out / recovery | from $125 |
| Heavy-duty (per hour) | quoted per job |
After-hours, holiday and severe-weather calls run higher. Private-property (non-consensual) tows are governed by New Jersey's Predatory Towing Prevention Act, which caps fees and storage. See our Newark towing rates page for the full breakdown.
Battery died in the Whole Foods lot downtown, guy had me running in ten minutes. Didn't even need a tow.
– Marisol T., DowntownShowed up about 15 min later than they quoted, which had me a little annoyed, but the driver called ahead to say he hit traffic on 280, knocked ten bucks off, and got my Altima to the shop no problem. Fair guys.
– Andre W., VailsburgCalled three places after my truck broke down on Frelinghuysen loaded with product. Brick City was the only one who had a wrecker big enough and actually gave me a price on the phone. Saved my whole delivery day.
– Sal, IronboundOr fill out the quote form up top for a free, no-obligation estimate.