Cheap towing in the North Ward, Newark, NJ: driveways, hills, and the flatbed your SUV actually needs

Big old houses, tight curb cuts, and driveways the flatbed backs into slowly. A lot of Subarus, Audis and three-row SUVs, and those ride with all four wheels up; that is the correct truck, not an upsell.

The driver phones ahead so a second car can be moved. A click on a cold morning is a jump first: flat price, no miles.

The ward's two shopping streets, with curb parking, bus stops and delivery vans double-parked outside the stores. Tires, batteries in the lots, cars that quit in traffic at the Broadway crossing.

Give the nearest corner and the side of the avenue. A tow to a garage on Bloomfield Avenue itself is about as few miles as a tow can have.

The loops through Branch Brook and the streets off Heller Parkway freeze before the avenues do. A slide into the grass or against a curb is priced as a winch-out; if the car drives away afterward, that is the entire bill. If something bent, the flatbed is already on scene and the tow is added at the flat rate, no second trip.

Toward the Belleville and Bloomfield borders and down to Route 21. Parking on both curbs, light-rail platforms along Bloomfield Avenue, and a quick way in for the truck off Route 21. A tow over the line into Belleville or Bloomfield is a short local run at the same fee.