Tow truck in Bonhamtown and Nixon, Edison: jughandles on Route 1, warehouses on Talmadge Road, and the truck for each

Three lanes each way, jughandles at every light and a shoulder that vanishes under the overpasses. A dead car in a jughandle blocks the turn for everyone behind it, and the wheel-lift clears it in minutes.

If the car still rolls, coast it into the jughandle or the first driveway apron before you call; the truck loads there without closing a lane.

Where Route 514 crosses Route 1 and traffic from Raritan Center, Piscatawaytown and Metuchen meets, the lights collect rear-end collisions. The rollback winches the car aboard on whatever wheels still turn, photographs every side and carries it to the body shop you name.

Tell the officer your own truck is on the way.

Box trucks, step vans and landscaping rigs in and out of the gates all day. One that dies across a driveway goes on the medium wrecker with the underlift, and the yard's fleet runs it on an account with one invoice a month.

Employee cars at shift change are jumps, tire changes and the occasional wheel-lift.

Residential blocks with curb parking and driveways of every length, plus Nixon Park's lot. The rollback backs in where there is room and winches from the street where there is not.

A cold-morning click in a driveway is a jump before it is anything else.