Heavy Duty Towing in Ontario, CA

Heavy duty towing in Ontario, California is a job built around freight. Ontario sits in San Bernardino County, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, and the city handles freight moving between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the rest of the country. When a semi, a container rig, a bus or a loaded box truck stops moving on one of these roads, we send a wrecker built for that unit and that load.

Three freeways meet here

Interstate 10 runs east and west north of Ontario International Airport. The Pomona Freeway, State Route 60, runs east and west south of the airport. Interstate 15 runs north and south along the east side of the city. At the I-10 and I-15 junction there is a four-level interchange. Trucks use all three routes to reach the airport, the warehouses, the rail yards and the long grades north to Victorville, Barstow and Las Vegas.

A cargo airport next door

Ontario International Airport reported 835,129 tons of cargo for 2025 and ranks eighth among U.S. airports by cargo as of 2024. It is the West Coast hub for UPS Airlines, a major point for FedEx Express and a focus city for Amazon Air. That means parcel feeders, box trucks and tractors run in and out around the clock.

Warehouses in every direction

The region holds about 1 billion square feet of warehouse space and more than 4,000 warehouses, which generate roughly 600,000 truck trips a day, according to a 2023 report on the Inland Empire. In Ontario, distribution centers include AutoZone, Cardinal Health, Genuine Parts (NAPA) and Nordstrom, and Amazon opened its largest U.S. warehouse here in 2024. More trucks means more breakdowns, more tire and brake failures, and more collisions.

Call (909) 552-8200

What to have ready when you call

A stranded driver should have six things ready, and we ask for them in this order:

• Exact location: freeway, direction of travel, nearest exit or mile marker.
• The unit: tractor-trailer, box truck, bus, RV, dump truck or equipment, and the weight class.
• The load: empty or loaded, what is on board, and whether any of it is hazardous material.
• The problem: breakdown, flat, no air, blown engine, jackknife, rollover or crash.
• Position: upright, on its side, in a ditch, blocking a lane, or in a yard or lot.
• Who pays: driver, fleet, insurer or broker, plus claim or authorization information.

Wind and heat

Autumn is Santa Ana season in Southern California. Santa Ana winds can easily exceed 40 miles per hour, and Cajon Pass, just north of the city on I-15, is one of the passes known for increasing them. Gusts of up to 60 miles per hour are recorded there, and high-profile vehicles can lose control or tip over. Ontario's record high is 118 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hard on tires, brakes and reefer units. Rain is rare, about 11.64 inches a year, so a wet-road crash in winter is a different kind of recovery.

Who calls us

Owner-operators, fleet managers, dispatchers, bus companies, RV owners, construction firms, brokers, insurers and sometimes law enforcement. We take the call, size the unit, and send the right wrecker.

We work from Ontario across the Inland Empire and the Pomona and Chino valleys. That includes Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Montclair, Chino, Chino Hills, Fontana, Rialto, Colton, San Bernardino, Pomona, Claremont, Eastvale, Jurupa Valley, Norco, Corona, Riverside, Redlands, Bloomington and Diamond Bar. Freight corridors, warehouse districts and long freeway grades show up in every one of them, and the town pages explain what is different about each.