Superior Roadside Assistance
When you need the best roadside assistance in Albert Lea, MN, you call our dispatch number, (507) 473-2999. Please review all of our services in order to understand how we can serve you best.
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Heavy Duty Towing
For the true heavy-hitters on the roadways, like dump trucks, garbage trucks, semi-trailers, tractor trucks, and more, you need T & W Towing LLC. As the largest towing company in the area, there’s no better call than to our towing team.
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Towing Recovery
Have you ever gotten your car stuck in a ditch? It’s a very unpleasant experience. When you need help with your vehicle, you need T & W Towing LLC. Please keep our number handy anytime you are behind the wheel.
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Winch Outs
T & W Towing LLC is properly equipped to pull your car, truck, semi, farm tractor, or anything else out of a difficult position. Our professional recovery team can handle it all.
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Heavy-Duty Road Service
When your heavy-duty truck breaks down on the road, it can be much more cost-effective to fix the truck on the side of the road rather than tow it. Equipped with Dealer Level Diagnostic Software-we can handle anything from Forced Regen's, air leaks, diagnosis, wheel seals, and beyond-chances are we can get your truck rolling without the hassle of towing it to a repair shop.
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Light Duty Towing
Smart cars, motorcycles, sedans, and normal-sized vehicles all fall into the category of light-duty towing. Whether you need an unwanted vehicle removed from your property or you have been in a collision, our tow trucks can provide assistance.
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Rotator Service
A Rotator is an ultra heavy-duty tow truck, capable of lifting nearly 100,000 pounds! Equipped with 5 winches, and highly trained operators-we have the only rotator within a 4 county area!
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Equipment Transport
We provide transit that is streamlined to haul even the heaviest cargo. Whether you need your heavy equipment moved or a simple forklift hauled, we can do the job.
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Load Shifts
Drivers on the road need to have secure cargo in order to transport it without issue. When your freight unexpectedly changes position and slides around, we can be called to secure it safely for you.
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Air Cushion Recovery
With our air cushion recovery, we can lift or upright heavy-duty trucks, trailers, and equipment that have been overturned. Give us a call anytime you are experiencing a roadway emergency and we will help how we can.
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Load Transfer
Do you have a trailer that is compromised and needs the load transferred to a road-ready trailer? We have the equipment and manpower to make it safe, easy, and cost-effective for you and your team. Anywhere, anytime.
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Emergency Traffic Control.
T & W Towing can handle any Emergency Scene Accident control, not just our own accidents but anything you may need! Equipped with Traffic Arrow Boards, Road Signs, and Cones-every member of the T & W Team is TIMS(Traffic Incident Management Safety) Certified and takes traffic control very seriously. Responding in minutes-we can handle your needs to keep your crew safe.
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Off-Road Recovery.
We can handle every situation, from excavators stuck in the mud to machinery in a river, farm tractors in a field-you name it we can handle it. With our off-road recovery skid steer equipped with a winch box, we can go nearly anywhere and recover any piece of equipment.
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HAZMAT Spill Restoration.
Fully trained, and equipped we can clean up most HAZMAT spills regularly seen on today's highways. From Petroleum or Agriculture spills, every operator at T & W Towing is HAZWHOPPER certified. We can even handle the site restoration as well!
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Street/Parking Lot Sweeping
With equipment ranging from Municipal Street Sweepers to skid steer sweeper attachments, dump trucks, and belly dump trailers-we can handle your complete needs for cleaning all paved surfaces of debris and disposal of the litter. Whether it be maintenance cleaning of your commercial property, or clean up from a motor vehicle accident-T & W as you covered!
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Heavy Duty Truck Repair In Shop.
Welcome to our state-of-the-art heavy-duty truck tire repair shop, where we specialize in providing expert solutions for all your commercial truck tire needs. Our skilled technicians deliver top-notch services, ensuring the safety and performance of your heavy-duty vehicles.
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Tire Services.
Our dedicated team of skilled technicians specializes in comprehensive tire care, offering a range of services tailored to meet the unique demands of commercial trucking. We are committed to ensuring the longevity and reliability of your heavy-duty tires. We have full dealer level diagnostic software, and over 40 years of experience in truck repair with our staff
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Air Cushion Recovery
Benefits of Air Cushion Recovery
What Air Cushions Do
Think of Air Cushions like a giant glove, supporting the weight of the entire load, rather than putting all the pressure on a few straps only a few inches wide. Trailer walls are not meant to hold weight, Air Cushions support the entire wall-more importantly the product behind the wall-until they lift the trailer high enough for the weight to transfer back to the floor of the trailer.
High Pressure vs Low Pressure
We have both High- and Low-Pressure Cushions, generally high pressure is used in the aid of getting low pressure cushions in position. Our low-pressure cushions operate with a max of 11 PSI, generally less than 6 PSI is needed however to upright most casualties.
Why doesn't everyone use them?
Most tow companies are "set in their ways" and believe that air cushions take too much time or are too difficult to set up. While decades ago, that may have been true, our state-of-the-art system is designed to increase speed and efficiency, taking only minutes to fully inflate. Many companies will resort to off loading the product, which means increased labor cost, disposal cost, and most importantly a HUGE amount of additional risk roadside to safety issues.
Modern vs Old Air Cushions
Old air cushions were round, relatively short, and with no arch built into them. Their compressors only put out around 50-60 CFM or Cubic Feet per Minute of air. The most modern sets like we have, are very tall fully inflated, have a built in arch to help "push" the casualty back onto it's wheels, and the compressor pumps nearly 500 CFM.
Are Air Cushions Safe?
Absolutely! In fact they operate at such a low pressure you can safely place your hand or arm in between the casualty and whatever your lifting-you won't be able to move but it will not hurt you! That is how low of a pressure is applied to your equipment when this technology is applied correctly.
With Modern Equipment like Rotators-why would Air Cushions be needed?
Great question! Not every job is an Air Cushion Recovery, we have Rotators, and multiple HD Wreckers as well and quite a few are successfully recovered without Air Cushions. The difference comes with loaded trailers. Imagine a gallon of milk-if you hold that gallon up with just one finger eventually either the milk jug "dents" from the strain, or your finger starts to hurt. That is due to the increased pressure. Now take your entire hand and place it on the bottom of the Milk Jug-supporting the same weight over a large area. Not only does the jug support the weight like this, it also won't fatigue your hand. Same concept with Air Cushions, spreading the weight across a large area prevents further damage to the trailer or truck. Additionally instead of trying to make sure multiple winches on multiple trucks are operated at about the same speed-Air Cushions are operated by one operator at a valve bank that can see the entire side of the casualty.
Landing Control Cushions
In addition to our lift cushions, we have 3 "Control Bags" that we place under the casualty when it is nearly upright. Instead of the casualty slamming to the ground, our landing cushions control the descent of the vehicle slowly to the ground, further reducing any additional damage that may occur from a "shock load" of the wheels slamming to the ground.
Training
T & W Towing Strives to have the highest trained operators in the area-our Air Cushions are no exception. Nearly every team member at T & W Towing has been through factory training, in addition to multiple other professional training classes such as WreckMaster, plus we routinely train in house to be the best at what we do.
I own another Tow Company, will you sub contract?
Absolutely! T & W Towing loves working with all other tow companies-in fact our air cushion trailer is intentionally left minimally marked specifically because of our helping other companies. Our trailer is set up with nearly all the rigging we need, whether you have one HD wrecker, or multiple Rotators-we have you covered! If you need an additional wrecker, we are more than willing to help bring a HD Wrecker or bring our Rotator. While we have no issues if you call us when you need us-we do ask that if you think you may ever need, just give us a call and we can set you up or show you and answer any questions you may have before you need us, but we do understand the nature of the business. We are also easy to work with on the billing side.
Now is a great time to contact us if you have any questions about our premier towing services. Give us a call today.
Service Areas:
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All of Southern MN, and Northern IA with Facilities in Owatonna MN, Albert Lea MN, and Northwood IA
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We specialize in Highway Services, with I90, I35, State Roads 65, 14, 218, 69, 105, 9 and 169.
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Nationwide Towing Available 24/7 to bring your truck to your preferred shop.
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