Towing in Hillsborough, Manville and Montgomery, NJ: the southern townships, a longer run timed honestly

Route 206 is Hillsborough's main road, lined with plazas, car dealers and traffic lights from the Somerville end down toward Montgomery. Rear-end crashes at the lights and no-starts in the plaza lots are routine.

Name the plaza or the nearest cross road and the direction. The driver comes down Route 206 from the north on most calls.

Manville is a small borough with Main Street running through its center, bordered by the Raritan and Millstone rivers. Its low streets have flooded badly in major storms.

A car that sat in water goes on a flatbed and should not be started. After a big storm the wait can run long, and the dispatcher tells you straight.

Amwell Road, County Route 514, runs east to west across Hillsborough and on toward Millstone and Franklin. Duke Farms sits along Route 206 at the Hillsborough edge, with quiet roads and open land around it.

Country roads here have soft shoulders and deer at dusk. A car off the edge usually needs a winch, priced before the work begins.

Montgomery stretches along Route 206 toward Princeton, taking in Skillman, Belle Mead and Route 518 near Rocky Hill. It is the farthest corner of the county from our yard.

Expect a longer wait here unless a truck is already south. For a car that is safe, a booked pickup is often the easiest route.