This is home. Flatbed towing, winch outs and roadside help in the town the trucks are actually based in.
Fort Calhoun is where Calhoun Transport is based, and the name is not a coincidence. It is a small place, 1,108 people in the 2020 census across roughly two thirds of a square mile, sitting on Highway 75 between Omaha to the south and Blair to the north. Everything else on this website is a service area. This is the town.
That changes the practical answer to the only question that matters when you are stranded. Everywhere else we are driving to you. Here we are already here, and the drive is measured in minutes rather than in whether a metro dispatch feels like taking the run.
It also means the roads on this page are not researched, they are the ones the trucks use daily. If you are on Highway 75 through town, on one of the county roads west of it, or down toward the river bottom on the east side, describing where you are takes about four words.
Highway 75 is the spine. North of Omaha it is a two-lane road that winds through rolling hills before dropping into the Missouri River plain just south of Fort Calhoun, and inside town it runs as 14th Street. That transition from hills to river plain is the single most useful thing to understand about towing here, because the two halves behave completely differently.
West and south of town the land is rolling upland with acreages scattered through it, served by a mix of numbered county roads and a P-prefixed series. County Road 45, where the business is based, is one of those rural addressed roads. The ditches out there are steep-sided and the shoulders are gravel, which is a combination that produces winch outs rather than tows.
East of town is Missouri River bottomland. Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge sits about three miles east on the floodplain, and the federal refuge itself warns that flooding is a frequent issue that can affect access. There is a Fort Calhoun Drainage District that received federal public assistance after the 2019 flood. Bottom ground holds weight well when it is dry and stops holding it entirely when it is not.
The town's two landmarks are worth naming correctly. Fort Atkinson State Historical Park is in Fort Calhoun on South 7th Street, a reconstructed 1820s army post on the bluff above the river and the first US military post west of the Missouri. And the Fort Calhoun Station nuclear plant north of town has been permanently shut down since October 2016 and is being dismantled, with OPPD expecting decommissioning to finish in late 2026. It is not an operating plant and has not been for years.
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 moreThe honest version is that proximity mostly matters for the calls where waiting is dangerous or the vehicle is blocking something. For a car that has been dead in a driveway for a year, it makes no difference at all whether the truck is ten minutes away or fifty.
Where it does matter is winter, and it matters a lot. A vehicle in a ditch on a county road with the temperature falling is a different situation at fifteen minutes than it is at an hour. Fort Calhoun is nine to ten miles from Blair and roughly twenty minutes north of Omaha on Highway 75, which puts a good deal of ground within a short run.
The other thing is knowing the ground without having to be told. Which shoulders are soft in April, which stretch of the bottom road is under water first, and which acreage driveways a flatbed cannot get up. That is not a service you can advertise, but it is the difference between one trip and two.
Yes. The business is registered here and the trucks run out of here, which is where the name comes from. It is the reason Washington County calls do not sit behind metro work, and the reason we know which local roads go soft before anybody has to describe them to us.
Usually yes, and it is one of the most common calls we get here. Tell us how far off the road it is and what it is sitting on, because a ditch, a soft shoulder and a field approach are three different jobs. A truck that gets stuck reaching you helps nobody.
Regularly. The main question is access rather than the vehicle. A flatbed needs a path and room to work, so a narrow gate, soft ground, a steep driveway or low branches all change the plan. Describe what is between the vehicle and the road when you call.
Minutes rather than a dispatch window, though it still depends on whether a truck is already out on a job. Call 402-512-2304 and you will get a straight answer about where the trucks actually are rather than an optimistic estimate.
Usually, but the ground is the deciding factor and it changes with the weather. The refuge east of town warns that flooding frequently affects access, and bottom ground that is fine in August will not hold a loaded flatbed in April. Describe the conditions and we will tell you honestly what is possible.
Yes. Kennard and Washington are both nearby and both get covered, along with the county roads between them. They do not have their own pages yet, but that has nothing to do with whether we come out. Call and describe where you are.
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