Towing & Roadside Assistance in Superior Township, MI

Seven miles north, and what that means out here

Superior Township is one of our shorter runs, though it is a big township and the drive depends on which end you are on. Our base is in Ypsilanti, about seven miles from the township's center, and the truck usually comes up Prospect Road or LeForge Road, or out Huron River Drive and Geddes Road toward Dixboro. The neighborhoods near Clark Road sit right across the city line; a call on Warren Road north of M-14 is a longer drive on two-lane roads. Dispatch gives you a drive time based on where the trucks are when you call. The price is confirmed on the same call, before anything moves, and dispatch answers around the clock in English, Arabic, Spanish, German, and Romanian.

M-14, Plymouth Road, and the commuter run east

Three corridors carry most of the township's traffic, and each produces its own kind of call.

• M-14. The freeway crosses the northern part of the township, with few places to get off between the US-23 split and the Ford Road interchange at the county line. Commuters ride it toward Plymouth, Canton, and I-275 in the morning and back at night. A breakdown here is a shoulder pickup with traffic moving fast a few feet away. Tell dispatch your direction and the last overpass you passed, then stay in the car with hazards on unless you can wait well off the pavement. This is what 24-hour emergency towing is for.
• Plymouth Road. The old road to Plymouth passes through Dixboro, where the village green sits right at the roadside. It is two lanes, busy at rush hour, and lined with driveways, so a car that still rolls should get onto a side street or into a lot.
• Geddes and Ford Roads. Geddes runs east-west across the southern part of the township into Canton, and Ford Road does the same farther north on its way to M-14. Both have soft shoulders, deep ditches in the open stretches, and deer at dusk.

Dixboro to MacArthur Boulevard: two townships in one

In the north and west, around Dixboro and the roads off Plymouth Road, Superior Township is large lots, gravel roads, horse fences, and long tree-lined driveways. Along Geddes and Prospect, the newer subdivisions have curbs, paved drives, and room to turn a truck around. Along the southern edge, where the township meets the City of Ypsilanti, the neighborhoods around MacArthur Boulevard and Harris Road are dense and residential, and the hospital campus off Huron River Drive sends us visitors who come out to a dead battery after a long day inside. A jump-start or a new battery installed on the spot in a hospital lot or a subdivision driveway is a flat-fee roadside job with no tow. A car that has to leave is loaded and secured and carried, not dragged.

Gravel roads, long drives, and the ditch under the snow

Township roads like Vreeland and Warren have ditches right off the edge, and many of the side roads between Prospect and the county line are gravel. From the first snow on, drifting across open fields hides where the road ends, and the spring thaw turns the shoulders to mud. A car that slides off usually needs a winch-out and nothing more; if it runs and steers once it is back on the road, you drive away. The first fifteen minutes of winching are in the base price; longer pulls and any work off the pavement are add-ons dispatch confirms before the truck leaves. Long gravel drives are their own case: tell dispatch the length, the surface, any gate, and whether the vehicle is at the house or stuck partway down, so the right truck for your vehicle comes the first time.

Why your address says Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti

Superior Township has no post office and no city inside it, so every address here borrows a name. The north and west, around Dixboro, carry Ann Arbor addresses in 48105. The south and east, from the Geddes subdivisions down to MacArthur Boulevard, carry Ypsilanti addresses in 48198. Neither means you live inside a city. Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti are cities with their own limits; Superior is a charter township in Washtenaw County that sits between them. Ann Arbor Township lies to the west, the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township to the south, and Canton Township, in Wayne County, to the east. Dispatch does not care which line you are on; a cross road tells the driver more than a city name ever will.

Where a Superior Township tow usually ends

Most tows out of the township are short. Shops in Ypsilanti are straight down Prospect Road. Ann Arbor's shops are west on Plymouth Road or Geddes Road, and the dealership row along Ford Road in Canton is east across the county line. Pricing follows the loaded miles between your pickup spot and the drop-off, plus a hook-up fee — not the distance from Ypsilanti — so a run from Dixboro to a shop on Ann Arbor's north side covers only a few loaded miles. Unsure where the car should go? Tell dispatch the make and the problem. Around the township we cover Ann Arbor to the west, Ypsilanti to the south, and Canton across the Wayne County line to the east. Dispatch for all of them is the same call: 734-985-0010.