Flatbed towing, winch outs and roadside help in Blair and across Washington County, from a crew based ten miles down Highway 75.
Calhoun Transport tows in Blair, Nebraska, from a base in Fort Calhoun roughly ten miles south on Highway 75. Blair is the Washington County seat and the largest town in the county at 7,790 people in the 2020 census, and it is the place where four highways meet, which is most of what makes it interesting to a towing company.
US 75 and US 30 run together through town along Washington Street before US 30 splits southwest toward Fremont. Nebraska 91 ends here at that junction, and Nebraska 133, the Blair High Road, comes up from Omaha and finishes at a roundabout with US 30 southwest of town. Four routes converging on one small city means a great deal of traffic that is passing through rather than stopping.
A lot of that traffic is heavy. If you are broken down in Blair, tell us which highway you are on and which side of town, because on a road network shaped like this that is the difference between finding you in five minutes and driving past you twice.
The Cargill Blair biocampus is a 650-acre industrial site with roughly 600 Cargill employees and a cluster of other manufacturers sharing the campus, including Corbion, NatureWorks, Evonik and Novonesis. It produces corn sweeteners, dextrose, feed ingredients, fuel ethanol and crude corn oil, and all of that arrives and leaves by truck.
The scale of it shows in the traffic. Before the bypass opened, at least 3,000 trucks a day were running through Washington Street downtown. The Blair South Bypass opened in September 2024, built with a $7.56 million federal grant, routing much of that between Highways 30 and 75 south of the centre. As of late 2025 the city was in early planning on a north bypass as well, with officials estimating five to six years to a final route, specifically because of farm and grain trucks coming south from Tekamah and Herman.
For us that means two different kinds of call in the same town. There is ordinary passenger work, and there is anything involving a truck, a trailer or a piece of equipment on a route built for exactly that. The second kind needs weight and dimensions on the phone before a truck is dispatched.
The other feature is the river. US 30 carries the Missouri River crossing at Blair on the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge, alongside a Union Pacific rail bridge at the same location. US 75 does not cross the river here despite running close to it, which is a distinction worth getting right when you are describing where you are.
Cars, pickups, medium duty trucks and equipment hauled on a flatbed deck, so nothing drags, scrapes or turns a wheel on the way.
Learn moreDead battery, flat tire or an empty tank. The problems that do not need a tow at all, handled where you are parked.
Learn moreCareful recovery after a collision, secure storage for the vehicle, and straight paperwork for whoever is handling the claim.
Learn moreOff the shoulder, into the ditch, buried in mud or snow. Winched back onto the road without tearing up the vehicle.
Learn moreExtra ramps and a shallow load angle for lowered, modified and low-clearance cars that a standard deck would scrape.
Learn moreNon-running vehicles hauled off the property, and select cars bought outright. One call, one pickup, gone.
Learn moreBlair sits far enough from Omaha that a metro dispatch is a real drive, and close enough to us that it is not. That is the entire argument, and it is a stronger one here than almost anywhere else we work.
It matters most on the jobs where waiting is the actual problem. A vehicle on the shoulder of Washington Street with truck traffic going past is not somewhere to spend forty minutes, and a car in a ditch on a county road in February is not either.
It matters less on scheduled work, where being close is a convenience rather than a safety issue. Either way, Blair is the town we are called into most often after our own, and the roads here are ones the trucks run weekly rather than occasionally.
About ten miles, straight down Highway 75 through Fort Calhoun. It is the closest town of any size to us, which is why Blair calls generally get a truck moving quickly rather than sitting behind metro work. Call 402-512-2304 and you will get a realistic time along with the price.
Yes, within the deck's rated weight, and Blair generates more of that work than anywhere else we cover because of the biocampus and the highway freight. Tell us the weight and the dimensions on the phone. That decides which truck comes out and whether one is enough.
Whichever sign you can actually see, plus whether you are north or south of the middle of town. US 75 and US 30 run together along Washington Street and then split, so naming just one of them can put a driver on the wrong road. The bypass is a separate answer again.
Yes, and they are a good share of the winch out work. Washington County is roughly 30 percent creek and river bottoms, so the ground alongside those roads gives way after a wet spell. Describe where the vehicle is sitting and what the ground is like when you call.
The Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge carries US 30 across the river and is the crossing at Blair. Conditions and closures change, especially in a flood year, so check current road conditions rather than taking a web page's word for it. We will tell you what we are seeing on the road that day.
Some of them, yes. Whether a vehicle is worth buying or simply worth hauling away depends on what it is and what is wrong with it. Call with the year, make and model and you get a straight answer on the phone rather than a driver making an offer in your driveway.
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