One towing number that always reaches someone with a truck, wherever your crew is parked.
Towing companies rarely have a dispatcher sitting at a desk all night. Calls have to follow the person on duty, from the yard to the cab to the kitchen table at 2 AM. The phone system makes one business number behave like a dispatch office.
Your phone is your dispatch office, and it moves around all night
In many small towing companies, the business number is a cell phone handed from driver to driver at shift change, or the owner's personal number painted on every truck. That works until the phone goes dead, the driver is on a recovery and cannot answer, or someone quits with the number in their contacts. A proper phone system keeps one business number that rings whoever is on duty, in an order you control, and never belongs to a single person.
Towing calls also arrive from very different places: drivers who found you in a search, body shops sending a car, property managers asking for a lot sweep, and motor clubs or police dispatch with a call reference. Giving accounts their own line or extension and tracking which source each call came from helps you serve each one fast and see who actually sends work. And because towing disputes are common (damage claims, price disagreements, release arguments), call records kept with the caller's knowledge protect you.
What a towing phone system has to do
Every setting below exists so a stranded caller reaches a driver, not a voicemail box.
Ring by shift, then escalate
Day shift rings the dispatcher, then the drivers on duty. Overnight rings the on-call driver first, then a backup, then the owner, then your AI receptionist, so no call goes unanswered.
Text back the missed ones instantly
When a call is missed, a text from the business number asks for location and vehicle so the caller has a reason to wait for you instead of dialing someone else.
Send location links by text
Dispatch can text any caller a GPS pin request from the business number, and the reply lands on the job without retyping coordinates.
Give accounts a priority line
Body shops, dealers, fleets and property managers get their own number or menu option that rings the office first, so a steady customer never waits behind a jump start.
Keep the business number off personal phones
Drivers call and text customers from an app showing the company number. When someone leaves, the history stays with the company and the customers keep calling you.
What we set up for a towing company
The system is in your company's name with a carrier you choose.
Porting the number on your trucks
We move your existing number into the new system, test every ring path at night before the cutover, and leave the old service active until calls land correctly.
Shift schedules that change themselves
Ring orders switch at shift change automatically, with a simple override when a driver calls out sick or swaps a night.
Tracking numbers per source
Separate numbers for the website, the map listing, truck doors and any ad, all ringing the same dispatch, so each job records how the caller found you.
Recording with notice
Calls recorded only where your state allows and with an announcement, stored on the job, so a disputed price or damage claim can be checked against what was said.
Registered business texting
Your numbers registered with the wireless carriers for business texting, so location links, arrival estimates and payment receipts actually reach the customer's phone.
What you own on day one.
Every account is opened in your company's name with you as the owner. If you ever leave, you change a password, not your business.
- Domain, hosting and the site files
- Phone numbers and call recordings
- The CRM and its database
- Email and text lists, with consent records
- Google Business Profile and every listing
- Analytics and Search Console
Business Phone for towing, answered.
Can the phone system tell me which driver answered?
Yes. Each answered call shows who picked up, how long the caller waited and whether it became a job, which helps when you review response times by shift.
What happens if the on-call driver's phone dies?
The call keeps going down the ring order to the backup, the owner or the AI receptionist. The business number never depends on one phone being charged.
Is recording tow calls allowed?
It depends on your state. A few states require consent from everyone on the call, others from one person. Your greeting and recording settings follow the strictest rule that applies to your calls. See our call recording guide for the general picture.
Can I keep using my cell phone?
Yes. The app runs on your cell and shows the business number when you call or text out, so you keep the convenience without giving out your personal number.
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