Tow truck at Bergen Point, NJ: the bridge approach, the dead-end streets under it, and the far end of the run

Route 440 rises off the Point onto the bridge to Staten Island, and the ramps where local traffic joins are where the rear-enders happen. A car that cannot roll after a hit here rides the rollback, winched up on whatever wheels it has and photographed for the adjuster.

Say which direction you were headed and whether you are on the approach itself or on a city street beneath it, because the two look the same from a phone and the truck comes in differently.

Short blocks that end at the water, parked on both sides, with the bridge structure overhead. A rollback cannot tilt a deck in most of them. The wheel-lift backs into the gap, lifts, and walks the car to Broadway or Avenue C, and if the drivetrain needs the flatbed the transfer happens there.

The park lot at the foot of the peninsula, the fields and the walkway facing the Kill Van Kull. A car that will not start after an evening game is a jump at one flat price. A car that has slipped off the lot edge onto soft ground is a winch-out on the rollback, and if it drives afterward that is the entire bill.

The southern end of the Hudson-Bergen line, with a surface lot that fills with commuters by seven. Most evening calls here are a battery that sat all day. When the car has to go to a shop, the lot is open-air, so either truck loads in the row, and a garage on Broadway is a short run north.