When you call 760-256-5007 you reach a dispatcher sitting in Barstow, not a national call center that auctions your job to whoever bids lowest. The truck that shows up is ours — a 2022 or 2023 International MV607 flatbed with a hydraulic winch, a full-length steel deck, and a driver who has been running I-15 and I-40 for years. City Towing has operated under this name in Barstow for more than 30 years; we're the tow company the locals call for their own cars.
What that means on the side of the road: a straight answer on price before we roll, an honest ETA (15–30 minutes in town, longer on the far corridor — see the table below), and a driver who knows that the Lenwood Road on-ramp, the Yermo weigh station, and the shoulder past Daggett each need a different approach.
Flatbed vs. wheel-lift: what we'll tell you on the phone
We're not going to sell you a flatbed you don't need. A running front-wheel-drive sedan with a dead alternator tows fine on a wheel-lift and it's cheaper. But if you tell dispatch it's an AWD, it's lowered, it's a classic, it's an EV, the wheels don't turn, or it was just in a wreck, the answer is flatbed and we'll say so. The extra few minutes of loading is nothing next to a damaged transfer case.
Where we run flatbed tows
Barstow proper and every town around it — Yermo, Lenwood, Daggett, Hinkley, Helendale and Silver Lakes, Newberry Springs, Fort Irwin, Ludlow, Lucerne Valley, Baker — plus the full length of I-15 from the Helendale/Lenwood area north to the Nevada line, I-40 from Barstow to Ludlow and beyond, CA-58 to Kramer Junction, and CA-247 south. If you need the car to go further than that, it becomes a long-distance tow, quoted by the mile before we leave the yard.
