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Towing and Roadside Help in Michigan
Broken down in Michigan? 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.
How it works in Michigan. 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 Michigan
- Grand Rapids, MITowing in Grand Rapids, MI, from the S-Curve on US 131 to 28th Street.
- Lansing, MITowing in Lansing, MI, around I-496, US 127 and Saginaw Street.
Roadside guides for Michigan
Michigan law
What Michigan's Move-Over Law Covers
MCL 257.653a protects a stopped authorized emergency vehicle showing flashing red, blue, white or amber lights. Where there are at least two lanes going your way, passing drivers must slow to at least 10 mph under the posted limit and move over at least one lane or two vehicle widths. Where they can't move over, they must still slow by that much. The rule doesn't apply to a vehicle stopped on the other side of a divided highway's median or barrier. Tow trucks are covered: MCL 257.2 counts a road service vehicle with flashing red or amber lights as an emergency vehicle for this section.
The section is written for emergency vehicles. A regular car with its flashers on isn't named, so when you break down, get as far onto the shoulder as you can, and stay belted in if traffic is close.
Downstate and up north
From the I-94 Corridor to the Upper Peninsula
In the south, I-94 is the main road between Chicago and Detroit, and I-96 runs across the state from Detroit to Muskegon, past Lansing and Grand Rapids. I-75 comes up from Ohio through Detroit, Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, then keeps going north to the Mackinac Bridge, which links Mackinaw City with St. Ignace. It ends at Sault Ste. Marie. In the Upper Peninsula, US 2 runs east toward St. Ignace, past Iron Mountain, Escanaba and Manistique, following the north shore of Lake Michigan through two national forests.
The climate splits the same way. The southern and central Lower Peninsula has hot summers and cold winters. The northern Lower Peninsula and the whole Upper Peninsula get shorter summers and longer, colder winters. Heavy lake-effect snow is frequent through the middle of February, and the storms can come on quickly. That's when a winch-out or a jump start gets you moving again.
Michigan Questions
I'm in the Upper Peninsula. Is there a partner up here?
Call and we'll check. It depends on where you are. If no partner can reach your spot yet, we'll tell you on the call instead of making you wait.
Lake-effect snow put me in a ditch. When will help get here?
We don't guess a time before a partner takes the job. Once one does, you get your driver's name and truck by text, plus a link to track the truck on a map.
Roadside help in Michigan
Towing and Roadside Services Across Michigan
Sentinel is a 24-hour towing and roadside assistance network across Michigan. 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.
Car towing
Cars, SUVs, minivans and light pickups. Price locked by text, photos before hookup.
Car towing
Jump starts
Clicks, dim dash lights or nothing at all? A dead battery jump, day or night.
Jump starts
Car lockouts
Keys locked inside, on the seat or in the trunk. A partner works to get you back in without damage.
Car lockouts
Flat tire changes
Got a spare but no safe way to put it on? A partner swaps it for you.
Flat tire changes
Fuel delivery
Ran out of gas? Enough fuel to get you to the nearest station.
Fuel delivery
Winch-outs
Stuck in snow, mud or a shallow ditch near the road? A partner can usually pull you out.
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Stuck in Michigan? Call and We'll Stay With You.
Our line answers 24/7. Your price is locked by text before we send anyone.