24 hour towing at Brick Church, East Orange, NJ: station lots, Halsted Street and the last train home

A car that sat from 7 a.m. to midnight in the cold can come back with a battery too weak to crank. Tell the dispatcher which lot you are in and which row, and wait in the car with the doors locked if the lot is empty.

The driver calls from the entrance, tries a jump pack first, and quotes a tow on the spot if the battery is finished.

Apartment blocks, shops and street parking with little room between bumpers. A car boxed in on Halsted Street is lifted out by a wheel-lift or moved sideways on skates, then loaded around the corner where the curb is clear.

Give the cross street and which side of Halsted you are on.

Residential blocks north and south of the tracks with parking on both curbs. Late calls here are lockouts, flat tires found in the morning dark and cars that will not start before an early shift.

A wheel-lift threads these streets more easily than a flatbed, unless your car needs its wheels off the ground.

Harrison Street links Brick Church to the I-280 ramps, which is also how our trucks usually arrive. A car that stalls on Harrison between the station and the interstate is a direct dispatch.

If it still rolls, pull onto a side street; if not, hazards on and step onto the sidewalk.