Titan Tow & Repair tows and recovers heavy trucks in Topeka, Kansas, 24 hours a day: tractor-trailers, loaded trailers, buses, dump trucks and equipment, on a heavy wrecker crewed by WreckMaster-certified operators. We work I-70 across the city, the I-470 loop, the Kansas Turnpike and I-335 up from Emporia, US-75 and K-4, and we recover trucks that have run off the road, jackknifed or rolled.
Topeka is where I-70 turns into a toll road on its way east, and where the interstate squeezes through downtown on a viaduct while I-470 loops around the south side. Which of those roads a truck stopped on decides who runs the scene and which way the wrecker comes in.
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Through the city center, I-70 squeezes onto the Polk-Quincy Viaduct. KDOT's 2026 project to widen it from four lanes to six closed I-70 downtown for months, in both directions between MacVicar Avenue and 6th Street, with westbound traffic sent off at 8th Avenue, eastbound off at Topeka Boulevard and through traffic around on I-470. On an elevated stretch, the wrecker's way in depends on which ramps are open, so tell us the last exit you passed.
I-470 leaves I-70 on the west side and carries US-75 with it as far as Burlingame Road. Two of its interchanges are split: eastbound traffic exits onto Huntoon Street but gets back on from Wanamaker Road, and 29th Street and Fairlawn Road are built the same way. The loop's heaviest traffic runs just west of Gage Boulevard. Tell us the street you can see, not just the exit, and the wrecker comes to the right side of the ramp.
The Kansas Turnpike heads northeast from Emporia as I-335 through the northern Flint Hills, and between its two ends the only interchange is US-56 at Admire. It reaches Topeka at exit 177, where I-335 ends and I-470 carries the turnpike on through southeast Topeka. A truck stopped between Admire and Topeka is reached from one end or the other, so the direction you were driving decides how the wrecker gets to you.
From the East Topeka interchange, K-4 runs north on the Oakland Expressway, and once US-40 turns off at 6th Avenue it narrows to a two-lane freeway, past the Seward Avenue exit for Philip Billard airport and over the Kansas River to US-24. With one lane in each direction, a semi that stops in the lane closes that side of the road, so it is a patrol call before it is a tow.
| Service | Heavy-duty towing |
|---|---|
| City | Topeka, KS (Shawnee County) |
| Main corridors | I-70, I-470, I-335, Kansas Turnpike, US-75, K-4 |
| Hours | 24 hours a day, every day |
| Dispatch | (816) 888-8732 |
Our heavy wrecker leaves the Liberty yard on I-435, picks up I-70 west, and from Bonner Springs to Topeka that stretch of I-70 is the Kansas Turnpike. It reaches Topeka at the east edge, at the East Topeka interchange, where K-4 and the Oakland Expressway head north. A truck on the turnpike leg of I-470 or on K-4 is close to that end; one on I-70 west of downtown, or on the free end of the loop by Wanamaker Road, is on the far side of the city.
In Topeka the direction of travel does a lot of the work. On I-335 there is nothing between Admire and exit 177; on the I-470 loop the split ramps put eastbound and westbound traffic on different streets; and downtown, the open ramps have changed with the viaduct work. Give us the road, the direction, the last exit or cross street and whether the truck is in a lane or on the shoulder, and the wrecker's route is settled before it reaches Lawrence. Shawnee County has the roads beyond the city.
Then describe the unit: a bobtail tractor or a full tractor-trailer, what the trailer is carrying, and whether it is still on its wheels or lying on its side. Those answers change the rigging and sometimes the truck that comes, and our guide to how a semi gets towed shows why they matter. For cars, pickups and roadside help inside the city, see towing in Topeka.
The heavy wrecker takes more than tractor-trailers out of Topeka: school buses and motorcoaches, dump trucks, box trucks, hot shots, and equipment, from skid steers and lifts to containers. Not all of it is on the interstate. Goodyear, Hill's Pet Nutrition and Frito-Lay are among Topeka's top manufacturers, and a loaded trailer that cannot leave a plant yard is towed from where it stands, gate rules and all. Heavy-duty towing lists everything the heavy side of the yard moves.
Some tows out of Topeka run a long way, and the route is part of the job. A tow from the south side onto the toll road joins it at exit 177, where I-470 and US-75 meet the turnpike, while a tow east to a Kansas City dealer runs the turnpike from East Topeka to Bonner Springs. Every tow is priced per job from the unit, the load, the distance and any recovery work, and the post on the cost of towing a semi walks through a quote.
A loaded tractor-trailer is not a bigger car. It needs a rated wrecker, a rated operator and a plan before anything gets hooked. That is what we send.
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That depends on your direction, because the Wanamaker interchange is split. Eastbound traffic leaves I-470 onto Huntoon Street and gets back on from Wanamaker Road, so a truck that made it off eastbound is sitting on Huntoon, not Wanamaker. Tell us the street you can see and whether the truck is on a ramp, a shoulder or a live lane, and the wrecker comes to that side. Coming from Liberty, it reaches Topeka from the east and crosses to you on I-70 or around the loop.
The towing is the same; the scene and the numbering are not. The turnpike legs, meaning I-335, I-470 from exit 177 around to East Topeka, and I-70 east of the city, are patrolled by the Turnpike Division of the Kansas Highway Patrol, and their exits are numbered from the Oklahoma line. I-70 through downtown, the rest of I-470, US-75 and K-4 are ordinary state highways. Tell us which kind of road you are on, then the exit and your direction.
Yes. Our coverage runs about 60 miles around Topeka, which takes in I-335 and the turnpike south toward Emporia, US-24 west toward Manhattan, I-70 west into Wabaunsee County, US-75 north to Holton and the roads east toward Lawrence. On the turnpike, the mile marker and direction place you; on the free roads, the last exit or town you passed. If a closer truck can get to you first, we say so on the phone instead of sending ours the long way.
Because that stretch has one lane in each direction, so a truck stopped in the lane closes its side of the road. K-4 narrows to a two-lane freeway once US-40 turns off at 6th Avenue, and it stays that way past the Seward Avenue exit and over the Kansas River. Dial 911, or the Kansas Highway Patrol's *47, so the scene is protected, then call us; the unit is hooked where it stands and taken to the shop you choose. Give the direction you were driving and the number of the last exit.
