Towing on I-64 / US-40

The southern corridor

I-64 enters St. Charles County over the Daniel Boone Bridge from Chesterfield and runs west along the southern edge through Weldon Spring, past O’Fallon and Lake Saint Louis, and out to the I-70 junction at Wentzville. Locals still call much of it Highway 40, and both names refer to the same road.

The exits people break down near: Hwy 94 / Research Park, Hwy K, Hwy DD / Winghaven, Prospect Road and the Wentzville junction at the western end.

What makes I-64 different from I-70

It is a commuter road first. I-70 through the county carries a heavy mix of freight and long-distance traffic. I-64 carries an enormous volume of people going to and from work in west St. Louis County, which concentrates the problems into two windows a day.

The Daniel Boone Bridge is the pinch point. Like the Blanchette on I-70, it is a river crossing, and an incident on it backs traffic up in both directions. It is also the reason a tow company based in Chesterfield or Creve Coeur cannot reach you quickly at 5pm.

Speeds are high and the shoulders are decent. Better than I-70 in places, which helps — but a shoulder is never a safe place to stand.

Business park traffic. The corridor is lined with office and business parks, so work vehicles and fleet cars are well represented in what breaks down here. See commercial towing.

The calls we run on this corridor

• Overheating. Stop-start rush hour traffic in July is hard on cooling systems. Do not try to make it one more exit.
• Rear-end collisions. The signature commuter crash, and the reason accident recovery is one of our busiest services on this road.
• Blowouts. Interstate debris, high speeds, and frequently no usable spare. See flat tire change.
• Fleet and work vehicles. The business parks along the corridor keep a lot of commercial vehicles on this road.
• Out of fuel. Particularly on the western stretch. See fuel delivery.
• Into the median. At interstate speeds a loss of control puts a vehicle well off the road — that is winch-out recovery.

What we bring to a highway call

Highway work is different from a driveway. Traffic is moving fast, the shoulder is narrow in places, and the priority is getting you and the vehicle off the road before anything else. Our drivers are insured, our trucks are marked, and we work highway calls every week across St. Charles County.

Whether it ends up being a tire change, a jump start, fuel, a winch-out, accident recovery or a straight tow, one call covers it.

Other corridors we cover

We also run I-70, Highway 370 and the Discovery Bridge, Highway 94 through the wine country, Highway 364 / Page Avenue, Highway 79 north along the river and the Blanchette Bridge.