24-Hour Heavy Duty Towing & Recovery
Diversified Towing & Recovery
Heavy Duty Towing, Moble Truck Repair, Recovery, and Transporting across South Central Iowa, including Creston, De Soto, Osceola, Stuart, and along the I-35 and I-90 corridors.
We specialize in heavy towing, recovering heavy vehicles, construction and farm equipment, and transporting loads up to 160,000 pounds.
Heavy Duty Towing
Heavy-duty wreckers and rotators can provide roadside service and tow your big rig, construction vehicles, semi, bus, or motorhome where you need to go, local or across the country.
Learn more about our Heavy Towing.
Off Road Recovery
Rolled your tractor-trailer? Or stuck axle-deep in a muddy construction site? We have heavy-duty recovery equipment for any size heavy vehicle, construction equipment, or farm equipment.
Learn about our Heavy Recovery capabilities.
Heavy Transporting
After a breakdown, we can get your rig to where it needs to go across town or across the country. Or do we need to get that equipment hauled to another site? Call us.
Learn more about our Heavy Duty Transporting capabilities.
Heavy-Duty Towing
Diversified Towing & Recovery provides local & long-distance heavy-duty towing and wrecker services 24 hours a day, every day.
Heavy commercial trucks include Amazon vans, UPS trucks, box trucks, big rigs, semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, and 18-wheelers. We can tow them all.
Our heavy towing operators have the heavy-duty towing equipment and expertise to provide towing services and mobile truck repair as quickly and safely as possible on any weight-class truck to any point in the service area or back to home base anywhere in the country. Our tow truck operators are CIRT and Wreckmaster trained.
Recovery Services
Have you rolled your tractor-trailer? Or perhaps you are stuck axle-deep in a muddy construction site? Call Diversified Towing & Recovery for heavy-duty recovery and wrecker services 24 hours a day, every day in southern Iowa including including Creston, De Soto, Stuart, Osceola, and on I-80, and I-35.
We have heavy-duty recovery equipment for any size vehicle, construction equipment, or farm equipment, including big rigs, semi-trucks, tractor-trailers and 18-wheelers. We can pull you out and transport you to a repair depot. We can even recover your load, including livestock and grain, and hold or transport it where needed.
Off-Road Truck Recovery
Off the road or rolled over? We can recover any weight-class truck from all situations. We have the right equipment, including heavy-duty wreckers, tow trucks, and winch boxes, to get you back onto the road and on your wheels or onto a trailer for transport to a repair shop or your home base.
Off Road Recovery
We can recover any weight-class truck from all situations. Our heavy recovery experts have the heavy-duty recovery equipment and expertise to recover as quickly and safely as possible.
We can pull you out and transport you to a repair depot. We can even recover your load, including livestock and grain, and hold or transport it where needed.
Heavy-Duty Transporting
Diversified Towing & Recovery provides local & long-distance heavy-duty towing and wrecker services 24 hours a day, every day.
Heavy commercial trucks include Amazon vans, UPS trucks, box trucks, big rigs, semi-trucks, tractor-trailers, and 18-wheelers. We can tow them all.
Our heavy towing operators have the heavy-duty towing equipment and expertise to provide towing services as quickly and safely as possible on any weight-class truck to any point in the service area or back to home base anywhere in the country. Our tow truck operators are CIRT and Wreckmaster trained.
Local or long-distance hauling
This includes loading onto our specialized trailers and towing or hauling any sized rig, container, or equipment back to Creston, Stuart, Osceola, Iowa, or anywhere across the country.
“Thank you for your prompt service. I broke down at 10:30 PM. less than 20 minutes from Des Moines. No towing company close by would help me until 7 or 8 in the morning. I should add that I drive a semi truck hauling doubles. Your company responded 5 hours before the other towing companies closer to me would have. Thanks again for the fast and courteous service.”
Triple A Roadside Assistance
Diversified Towing & Recovery provides heavy duty AAA Roadside Assistance and AAA Towing for southern Iowa including I-80 and I-35.
We also provide mobile truck repair and Penske 24/7 Roadside Assistance for your Penske equipment, such as a flat tire on your truck, mechanical problems, fluid leakage, and more.
Diversified Towing & Recovery is a provider for FleetNet America Roadside Assistance for medium and heavy-duty trucks.
Our Heavy Duty Equipment & Capabilities
Our heavy-duty towing equipment includes everything we need to tow, recover or transport any sized vehicles, trailers, equipment, containers, and more.
Heavy-Duty Tow Truck
The 2009 Kenworth T-800 is a heavy-duty truck used for towing and recovery operations. It is equipped with a Miller 9055 50-ton recovery boom and XP 850 side pullers. The Miller 9055 50-ton recovery boom has a 50-ton structural rating and a maximum hook height of 259 inches. It also has a hydraulic boom extension of up to 144 inches. The XP 850 side pullers are used to provide additional pulling power when recovering vehicles.
The Kenworth T-800 is ideal for heavy recovery work. It can tow a wide variety of vehicles, from mixers to packers and buses, with 136 inches of reach. This “poor man rotator” can handle every job thrown at it. From recovery on a single-lane shutdown to a multiple-vehicle recovery, this truck has the power to handle it.
50-Ton
We have a 1997 Freightliner Challenger 50-ton available to recover, assist, or handle recoveries by itself. Our tow truck is a specialized towing vehicle with a powerful motor, boom, and an integrated winch that allows it to lift, and transport up to 50 tons. This type of tow truck is used to recover, secure and transport large, heavy, and awkward-shaped vehicles, machinery, and equipment.
Flatbed Tow Trucks
Our 2024 Kenworth T-880 with NRC 40TB carrier tow truck is a versatile flatbed tow truck used for roadside assistance, recovery, and transport for all light, medium-duty, heavy-duty and equipment calls. The 40TB is manufactured by NRC Industries and has a nominal deck rating of 40,000 lbs. The tow bar lift rating is 20,000 lbs@0” / 10,000 lbs@58“. The standard winch is 20,000 lbs, and the tow rating is 50,000 lbs. With a deck height of 42”, width of 102” and deck length of 28ft. It has a seamless deck – 1/4” checker plate 3” high X 9” spacing roll formed 60ksi steel deck cross-members.
Our 2020 Kenworth T-370 with NRC 20TB carrier tow truck is a versatile flatbed tow truck used for roadside assistance, recovery, and transport for all light and medium-duty calls. NRC Industries manufactures the 20TB and it has a nominal deck rating of 20,000 lbs. The tow bar lift rating is 8,000 lbs@0” / 3,000 lbs@48 “. The standard winch is 12,000 lbs, and the tow rating is 15,000 lbs. The deck length is 21ft, and the deck width is 102” with a seamless deck – 3/16” checker plate 3” high X 12” spacing roll formed 60ksi steel deck cross-members.
Our 2023 Freightliner M2 is equipped with a 21ft Jerrdan aluminum rollback. This truck is perfect for our light and medium-duty calls. This unit has an extended cab for extra passengers. We use the Freightliner M2 and Jerrdan aluminum rollback on our longer light and medium-duty tows. The Jerrdan 8.5 Ton XLP aluminum deck has a nominal deck rating of 17,000 lbs. The tow bar lift rating is 5,000 lbs. The winch is 10,000 lbs, and the tow rating is 12,000 lbs. The deck length is 21ft, and the deck width is 102” with a seamless high strength extruded aluminum deck and patented galvanized steel main beams with 5” fixed blade rails.
Our 2021 NRC Quickswap with tag axle matched with 2010 Cat powered Peterbilt 389 is the perfect tool for short or long-haul towing and simple winch outs. This unit can tow box trucks to cement mixers, loaded tractor trailers to RV’s. The Quickswap has a towing capacity of 80,000 lbs and a 3 stage underlift lifting capacity of 35,000 lbs. The tag axle option has a capacity of 17,000 lbs and adds extra braking capacity to let us stay in control of the load we are towing.
Zachlift Winch
Our Zacklift is a tow truck attachment used to lift and tow vehicles too heavy for conventional tow trucks.
Our Zacklift paired with a 2004 Cat Powered 379 heavy haul truck with large sleeper is a perfect truck to use on the short and long-haul tows. This unit is used when extra people are needed to be transported along with their large vehicle. The Zacklift can also be used for winch outs with a 25k winch and added spade feet. We use this truck with box trucks, RV’s, Truck tractors, dump trucks, and pickups pulling trailers.
Winch Box
Our new 2023 Takeuchi TL12-R2 Skid loader with an attached Performance Winch box can pull up to 30,000 lbs. It can reach areas where trucks can’t and recover vehicles, construction or farm equipment stuck in the mud and mud roads or off-road in difficult positions. Our winch box often assists our other trucks with recoveries and rollovers.
Traveling Axle Trailer
We have also added a 2024 Landoll sliding axle trailer with 30,000 lb winch for the heavy recovery work. This trailer will be a perfect compliment to all our heavy recoveries along with helping transfer other equipment to the accident scenes. This trailer will also be used in our transportation side as a very versatile tool.
The Landoll Trailer Line is taking a huge leap forward with the introduction of the all-new hydraulic operating systems, nicknamed H.O.S.S., and High Visibility Lighting package. The 440 “B” Series Traveling Axle trailers are the first models with these added standard features.
H.O.S.S. cuts the overall operational time in half. The axle traveling forward has increased by 36% and moving back by 58%. Tilt deck positioning has increased to nearly 63%, while winch in and out speeds are closer to 66%. This improvement will allow for more loads to take place.
The Landoll 440B is a tandem axle trailer with a capacity of up to 40 tons and 53ft trailer length. Handle tough equipment including super low clearance pavers with an easy one-man operation.
Towing, Recovery, and Transport of Heavy Trucks and Trailers, Construction Equipment, Containers, and Farm Machinery
If we can’t help you then we know who can.
We have the specialized tools, equipment, vehicles, and training to be able to safely perform difficult jobs. We haven’t seen a towing, recovery or hauling job we couldn’t complete!
Diversified Towing & Recovery
1739 Commerce Rd
Creston, Iowa 50801
(641) 344-1510
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