Flatbed towing, winch outs and roadside help across the metro, from the interstate loop to the older neighbourhoods north of Dodge.
Calhoun Transport tows across Omaha, Nebraska, running flatbeds out of Fort Calhoun a short distance up Highway 75. Omaha is where most of the volume is, and it is a particular kind of towing: high-speed shoulders, heavy interchanges, and a road network that has been under construction somewhere for years.
The metro is also where the phrase people actually type is tow truck near me, and near me on I-80 at rush hour means something different from near me in a Benson driveway. One is a shoulder job with traffic a few feet away and a strong incentive to be quick. The other can be done properly without anybody standing next to a live lane.
Tell us which one you have when you call. The road, the direction you were travelling, and the nearest exit or cross street is enough to get the right truck moving and to give you a price before it does.
The interstate is the defining feature. The Nebraska Department of Transportation has described the stretch of I-80 through the middle of the city as carrying the most traffic of any roadway in the state, and the regional planning agency's interchange counts put I-680 at I-80 above 230,000 vehicles a day, with 72nd, 84th, 60th and 42nd Street at I-80 all above 195,000. Those are the places a disabled vehicle is least safe and where the setup matters most.
Construction moves the shoulders around. NDOT began widening I-680 between the Center and Pacific area and Dodge Street in 2026, and the southbound ramp from Pacific closed from late July 2026 into the autumn. A separate I-80 repair and expansion through the 50th Street area is planned to start as early as spring 2027. Work zones change where there is room to load, which is worth knowing before a truck arrives.
Away from the freeway the city gets older and lower. The Dodge corridor changes character three times, from Dodge Street downtown to West Dodge Road to the West Dodge Expressway west of 96th, and a caller who says West Dodge is on a different facility from one who says Dodge Street. North of it, Benson and Florence were separate towns until Omaha annexed them in 1917, and their streets were laid out accordingly: narrow, older, with alleys behind them.
Then there is water. The Saddle Creek underpass beneath Dodge Street has flooded chronically since it was built by the WPA in 1934, because it sits in a former creek bed, and there is now a depth gauge and a warning sign on the approach. A vehicle driven into standing water there is a recovery followed by a tow, in that order, and it is not a jump start no matter how it looks.
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 moreBeing based in Fort Calhoun is not the obvious pitch for Omaha work, and it would be dishonest to claim we are closer to a breakdown at 84th and I-80 than a company sitting in the middle of the city. Sometimes we are not.
Where it does help is the north and northwest of the metro, and anything on the Highway 75 and Highway 133 corridors, because we are coming down them rather than out through the city. It also means that when a call comes in from north of the interstate loop it does not sit behind a queue of downtown work.
The other half of it is that a lot of Omaha work is not roadside at all. Dealer transfers, auction runs, fleet moves and equipment between job sites are scheduled, and scheduled work does not care where the truck sleeps. It cares whether the truck shows up when it said it would.
It depends where you are and what the traffic is doing, and anybody who gives you a number before asking those two questions is guessing. Call 402-512-2304 with your location and you will get a realistic estimate rather than an optimistic one, along with a price.
Get yourself somewhere safe before you think about the vehicle. Hazards on, and if you can move to the shoulder do it. Stay on the far side of the vehicle from traffic rather than between it and the lane, and do not stand behind it. Then call with the direction of travel and the nearest exit.
Yes. The whole metro is in the service area, including the west side out past the I-680 loop. West Omaha is a longer run for us than north Omaha is, so the honest answer on timing depends on where exactly you are, and you will get that on the phone.
Yes, that is junk car removal and Omaha's older neighbourhoods generate a lot of it. Narrow alleys and detached garages make access the main question rather than the vehicle itself, so describe what is between the car and the street when you call.
Usually not from inside one, because a flatbed needs overhead clearance a parking structure does not have. What normally works is getting the vehicle out to the street or an open deck first. Call and describe the structure and we can work out whether it is possible before anybody drives over.
Yes, and a meaningful share of the week is exactly that. Lot to lot, auction runs, fleet and service department moves. If you move vehicles on a schedule, it is worth calling to talk about standing work rather than booking each one as it comes up.
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Tell us where you are, what you are driving, and what happened. Calling is fastest, and it is the only way to get a real price before anything moves.
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