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Towing and Roadside Help in Alberta

Broken down in Alberta? 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 Alberta. 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 Alberta

Roadside guides for Alberta

More than 1,200 km, north to south

Alberta's Highways, From the Mountains to the Oil Sands

Alberta stretches more than 1,200 km from its southern border to the far north. In January, average highs run from about 0 °C in the southwest to 24 below in the far north. A dead battery in Lethbridge and one north of Fort McMurray are not the same kind of morning.

Calgary to Edmonton

Highway 2, the QEII, links the two cities by way of Red Deer. In winter it's prone to collisions that can mean hours of delay, closures, and traffic sent onto Highway 2A. The corridor around it also gets more hail than anywhere else in Canada.

Trans-Canada and Yellowhead

Highway 1 runs about 534 km from Kicking Horse Pass near Lake Louise, through Calgary, to the Saskatchewan line east of Medicine Hat. Highway 16, the Yellowhead, runs about 634 km from the BC line near Jasper through Edmonton to Lloydminster.

The north

Highway 63 is the main road from Edmonton to Fort McMurray. North of Wandering River, it runs nearly 180 km to the Highway 881 junction, with little but Mariana Lake along the way. Highway 43 heads northwest to Grande Prairie and on toward BC.

Alberta rules

What Alberta Law Says at the Roadside

If you're in the lane next to any stopped roadside vehicle with its lights flashing, tow trucks included, you must move to the far lane. If you can't do that safely, slow to 60 km/h or the posted limit, whichever is lower.

The province's Use of Highway and Rules of the Road Regulation bars parking on the roadway or shoulder of a provincial highway unless the vehicle can't move under its own power or there's an emergency. A breakdown qualifies. A 2025 change also says a tow truck driver must not stop or park on a highway within 200 m of a damaged or disabled vehicle unless police, emergency staff, or the vehicle's owner or driver asks them to, with a few contract exceptions.

We send one partner company. You get the driver's name, photo and truck by text, so you'll know which tow truck is yours.

Alberta Questions

A tow truck I didn't call pulled up. Do I have to use it?

Not if you didn't ask for it. Alberta's rules keep tow trucks from stopping near a disabled vehicle unless police, emergency staff or the owner or driver asks. If police direct a tow, follow their lead. Otherwise, wait for the driver whose name and photo we texted you, and tell us if anyone is pressing you. We'll keep checking on you until your partner arrives.

Roadside help in Alberta

Towing and Roadside Services Across Alberta

Sentinel is a 24-hour towing and roadside assistance network across Alberta. 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.