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Towing and Roadside Help in Alaska

Broken down in Alaska? Call 1-888-TOW-1213. We lock your price by text, send the nearest available partner tow company and stay with you until help arrives.

If anyone is hurt or you're stopped in a live lane, call 911 first.

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How it works in Alaska. Sentinel Towing is a network, not a tow company. A vetted local partner near you does the job. We stay with you by text and hold them to your locked price.

Towing by City in Alaska

Anchorage, AKTowing in Anchorage, AK: jump starts in the cold, winch-outs from snowbanks and local tows, with a price locked by text and our Stay-With-You Promise.

Roadside guides for Alaska

Few roads, long miles

Tell Us the Highway and the Milepost

Alaska has few road connections for a state its size. The road system links the main population centers and leaves the state through Canada on the Alaska Highway. Juneau has no road access, and most of western Alaska has no road link to the rest of the state. So the first thing we ask on a call here is which highway you're on and the nearest milepost.

North of Anchorage, the Glenn Highway carries traffic toward Eagle River and Palmer. The Parks Highway leaves the Glenn near Palmer and runs 323 miles to Fairbanks, and it's the main road to Denali National Park. Its mileposts start at 35 because they carry on the Glenn's count. The Richardson Highway links Valdez with Fairbanks, and the Alaska Highway ends where it meets the Richardson at Delta Junction. South of Anchorage, the Seward Highway follows Turnagain Arm to Portage, where the tunnel road to Whittier begins.

Towns sit far apart on every one of these roads. If your battery quits at a pullout, a tire goes flat miles from the next town, or you slide into a snow berm, call us. We look for the nearest partner who can reach that stretch and send them for a jump start, a tire change or a winch-out.

Winter here is not one thing

Alaska is the coldest state, but its winters vary a lot. The Interior around Fairbanks can fall past 60 degrees below zero. Anchorage is mild by Alaskan standards, yet its airport still averages 74.5 inches of snow a year on NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals. The southeast is the wettest and warmest part of the state.

Before a long drive, check Alaska 511, run by the state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

Alaska rules on the shoulder

Alaska's Move-Over Law Covers Tow Trucks

Under AS 28.35.185, drivers must give room to a stopped emergency vehicle, a road service vehicle, or a tow truck picking up a vehicle when its lights are flashing. On a road with two or more lanes in the same direction, passing drivers must leave the lane closest to it. On a road with fewer lanes, they must slow to a reasonable and prudent speed. Read the section on the Alaska Legislature site.

That rule protects the partner working on your car. While you wait, keep your hazards on and stay as far from the traffic lane as you safely can.

Can you reach me on the Dalton Highway?

Maybe not. The Dalton runs 414 miles from north of Fairbanks to Deadhorse, and most of it is unpaved. Call and give us the milepost. If no partner can reach that far, we'll say so on the call, so you don't sit and wait for a truck that isn't coming.

I'm in Juneau. Can you help?

Juneau has no road link to the rest of Alaska, so help there has to come from a partner based in the Juneau area. Call and we'll check. If none covers it yet, we'll tell you plainly.

Roadside help in Alaska

Towing and Roadside Services Across Alaska

Sentinel is a 24-hour towing and roadside assistance network across Alaska. Tell us where you are, and we send a vetted local towing company near you with a truck suited to the job: a tow truck for a car that can't be driven (a flatbed where the vehicle needs one), or a service truck for a jump start, lockout, flat tire, fuel delivery or winch-out.