Tow truck in midtown Bayonne: the hospital, City Hall, and the blocks where the curb gap is never where you left it

Visitor lots, staff parking and the ramps around the hospital, with an ambulance bay that must never be blocked. A car that will not start at the end of a visit or a shift is a jump at one flat price. A car that has to leave is loaded in the open lot by either truck, and the driver stays out of the emergency entrance.

The hospital's own vans and shuttles ride the medium-duty wrecker on a fleet account.

Avenue C past City Hall is one of the few places midtown where a rollback can tilt a deck without stopping traffic, so it is where a lot of midtown cars end up loading. The municipal lots nearby are open-air and either truck works them.

Say whether you are on the avenue, in a lot or on a cross street; the answer decides which truck leaves first.

The most double-parked blocks in Bayonne. A car boxed in by a delivery van, or dead in the only moving lane, is a wheel-lift job: under the wheels, lift, and walk it to the avenue. The rollback does not enter a block it cannot load in; it waits at the corner.

Broadway's busiest storefronts, with buses and turning traffic, and Avenue E running beside the light rail line past the hospital. A stalled car in either holds up the whole peninsula's north-south traffic, so the wheel-lift is sent for speed and the destination is settled once the lane is clear.