From a sedan to a Class 8 tractor
What arrives depends on what you are driving, and getting that right on the phone is the difference between one visit and two. Wimberley Towing runs light, medium, and heavy duty equipment out of three yards, in Wimberley, Kyle, and Blanco, which is why one call covers almost anything that happens to a vehicle out here.
Cars and light trucks
A car goes on a deck. All four wheels off the ground, nothing dragged, nothing loaded through the driveline. For an all-wheel-drive car that is not a preference, it is the only correct method, and towing one with two wheels turning can wreck the centre differential. That is flatbed towing, and it is what most of our light duty work actually is.
Work trucks, box trucks, and RVs
The class everyone guesses wrong. A dually with a service bed, a sprinter van, a mid size RV: too heavy for a light wrecker, nowhere near heavy enough for a rotator. Guess low and the truck that arrives cannot lift it. That is medium duty towing.
Semis, buses, and loaded trailers
If it needs air released before it moves, it is heavy duty towing. We run that equipment on the 281, 290, 71, and I-35 corridors every week, with WreckMaster certified drivers, and we keep a yard in Blanco specifically because of US 281.
The vehicles that need a specific answer
Some vehicles are not about weight at all. A lowered, classic, or exotic car goes on the deck and only on the deck, because a wheel-lift under a low clearance car is how bumpers and undertrays get torn off. That is specialty car towing.
Bikes are their own problem. A motorcycle has two contact patches and no parking brake, so it stays upright because of how it is chocked and compressed rather than because of luck. See motorcycle towing.
And if the thing you need moved is an ATV, a mower, a golf cart, or a small tractor, you do not need to own a trailer to move it. A flatbed already has a tilting deck and a winch, which is the entire job. See light equipment hauling.
When it is not a tow at all
Plenty of calls end with the driver driving away. A battery, a key, a flat, or five gallons of fuel is often the whole job, and a good dispatcher will tell you that on the phone rather than send a wrecker you do not need. That is roadside assistance. And once a vehicle has left the pavement, it is a winch job before it is a tow job, which is off-road recovery.
Where we run, and what it costs
The Kyle yard sits on I-35, which is what puts Kyle and San Marcos within a short run rather than an hour out from the metro. Buda is six miles up the same road. Our home yard on Ranch Road 12 covers Wimberley and the back roads around it, and the Blanco yard reaches across the rest of Blanco County.
Rates for police authorized tows are set by local law enforcement, not by us. The real numbers are published on our towing rates page. Fleets, shops, and dealerships should set up a corporate account before a truck goes down rather than at two in the morning.