Tow truck at MOTBY, Cape Liberty and Constable Hook: the cruise lot, the docks, the gates, and the trucks each one needs

Cars sit here for a week or two while their owners are at sea, and a share of them come back to a battery that will not turn the engine. A jump is one flat price and no mileage, and it is the commonest call from the port by far.

A car that cannot be revived rides the rollback from the open lot to whichever shop you name, and the driver photographs it before the straps go on.

The new buildings on the terminal have garages a rollback cannot clear, so an AWD or electric car comes to the ramp on the wheel-lift or on dollies with no driven wheel turning, and loads onto the flatbed outside. The warehouses along Port Terminal Boulevard are Sprinter and box-truck territory, which is the medium wrecker on an underlift.

Tractors queued at the gates on the Jersey City line, and the trailers and chassis that go with them. A dead tractor blocking a lane at the gate is a heavy-wrecker call, and the fleets that run there keep an account with one monthly invoice.

Employee cars that will not start at the end of a shift are a jump or the ordinary trucks.

The industrial tip of the east side, with tanker trucks, terminal roads and security gates. Tankers and tractors ride the heavy wrecker; the pickups and vans that service the terminals ride the medium one or the rollback. The driver checks in at the gate the dispatcher was told about, so name it when you call.