Wind is the one that surprises people out here. Chinook gusts come down off the foothills and shove high-profile stuff sideways along Indiana Street and CO-93 — box trucks, empty utility trailers, the occasional camper someone was towing to the mountains. We get those righted and off the shoulder before another driver clips them. Tight quarters are a different job. Around Olde Town, the alleys off Ralston Road and the parking near the G Line station leave about an inch on either side of a mirror, so that's a wheel-lift call, done slow, with nobody's bumper dragged on the way out.
The rest is ordinary work: dead batteries in Candelas and Leyden Rock driveways on a cold morning, keys shut inside a car at a Standley Lake trailhead, crashes on the Wadsworth Bypass and Sheridan. Flatbed when a vehicle shouldn't roll, winch-out when it's off the pavement, and impound release help if it's already been moved.
Foothills subdivisions and 1960s ranch streets need different trucks
My car was towed after a wreck on the Wadsworth Bypass. Can you help me get it out?
Yes. Call us with the report number and we'll tell you what the lot needs from you, then haul the vehicle to your shop or your driveway once it's released. Whether Arvada PD or the Jefferson County Sheriff handled it changes who holds the paperwork.
Can a tow truck actually fit in the alleys behind Olde Town?
Usually, with the right truck. Tell dispatch it's an alley or a tight garage and we'll send a wheel-lift instead of a flatbed rather than showing up and finding out we can't turn around.