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Towing and Roadside Help in New Mexico

Broken down in New Mexico? 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 New Mexico. 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 New Mexico

Albuquerque, NMTowing in Albuquerque, NM, from the Big I to Tijeras Canyon.

Roadside guides for New Mexico

Three Interstates, a lot of open land

Where New Mexico Drivers Get Stuck

I-25 runs roughly 460 miles from Las Cruces to the Colorado line, through or near Truth or Consequences, Socorro, Belen, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Raton. Most of it crosses rural land. I-10 covers about 164 miles in the south, running east from the Arizona line to Las Cruces and then south to Texas. I-40 comes in from Arizona toward Gallup and Albuquerque, meets I-25 at the Big I, and climbs east out of the city through Tijeras Canyon.

Those are long rural stretches. When your car quits on one, a clear location gets a partner to you sooner. Before you call, look for:

The Interstate or highway number and your direction
The nearest mile marker, or the last exit you passed
A spot off the pavement, clear of traffic, to wait in
What you need: a tow, a jump, or gas if the tank ran dry

Desert, mountains and summer rain

Hot Days, Cold Nights, Summer Storms

New Mexico is semi-arid to arid, with cooler mountain climates up high. Below about 5,000 feet, summer days often top 100 degrees. From November to March, many towns drop into the teens at night, and a battery that was fine all summer can quit on the first hard freeze. Rain peaks in summer, most of all in the north-central area around Albuquerque and in the south.

Summer storms can put water over a road. The National Weather Service warns that just 12 inches of rushing water can carry away most cars, and that the road underneath may have collapsed. Turn around and call us from dry ground.

Know the road before you go

NMDOT runs NMRoads for road conditions and closures. It's worth a look before a winter drive through Tijeras Canyon or a trip into summer storms.

New Mexico Questions

My car overheated on I-25 in July. What should I do?

Get as far off the road as you can and shut the engine off. Wait somewhere safe and out of the sun if you can find it. Call with your mile marker and direction, and a partner can tow the car to a shop nearby.

Roadside help in New Mexico

Towing and Roadside Services Across New Mexico

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