In the older Akron neighborhoods we're mostly pulling cars off tight residential streets with a wrecker. Out here the call sheet looks different. The warehouses around the Turnpike interchange mean a fair share of our work is trailers, box trucks and loaded units, not just a sedan with a dead battery. Exit 187 and Exit 180 have been swapping traffic back and forth through the Tinkers Creek bridge work, so drivers get pushed onto roads they've never seen.
The SR 14 and SR 43 intersection in the middle of town is its own animal — constant tractor-trailer volume, and a lot of the accident calls we run start within a mile of it. Then there's the other half: newer subdivisions spread thin with big stretches of empty acreage between them. A soft shoulder and a ditch, and you need a winch, not a jump box. We dispatch flatbed, light-duty and heavy-duty, plus lockouts, jump starts and impound release runs.
What breaks down around Exit 187
I'm from out of state and don't know where I am — can you still find me?
Yes. Give us the nearest exit number, mile marker, or the travel plaza you pulled into, and we'll work from that. Between the Turnpike and the state routes, a landmark is usually enough.
Do you handle anything bigger than a pickup?
We do. The distribution traffic here means we're set up for heavy-duty and trailer work, so tell dispatch the vehicle type and whether it's loaded before we roll a truck.