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Towing in Cochrane
Highway 1A, the Cowboy Trail and the hill — plus acreage and trailer work west of the city.
+1 (587) 436-8900Cochrane's towing problems are shaped by its geography. The Highway 1A descent into town is a genuine hill, and it catches people out in winter and catches brakes out on loaded trailers year-round. West and north of town the population is acreages, which means horse trailers, stock trailers, farm pickups and equipment rather than commuter sedans.
The roads
Where the calls come from
Highway 1A
The hill into Cochrane is the single feature that defines local recovery work — winter descents and brake trouble on loaded units.
Highway 22 (Cowboy Trail)
North-south through ranch country. Long distances between services and a lot of trailer traffic, so a breakdown here is rarely close to a shop.
Highway 8
The connector east to Calgary and Stoney Trail, and a frequent commuter call.
What goes wrong
Local conditions
- The 1A hill in freezing rain is where a routine drive becomes a recovery — vehicles end up off the road rather than stopped on it.
- Acreage driveways and range roads go to gumbo in spring melt, and a two-wheel-drive deck truck simply will not get in.
- Loaded horse and stock trailers need to be dealt with carefully, and often the animals have to be considered before the trailer does.
Who calls
What we move here
- Vehicles off the road on the Highway 1A descent, especially November through March
- Horse and stock trailers with axle, bearing or brake failures on Highway 22
- Farm pickups and equipment on acreages and range roads west of town
Available in Cochrane
Every service, same number
Heavy Recovery
Rollovers, ditched units and loads that have shifted. Purpose-built heavy wreckers and operators who have done it before.
Equipment Hauling
Forklifts, tractors, skid steers, tanks and industrial plant moved on deck, secured properly and delivered where it needs to be.
Vehicle Towing
Cars, pickups, vans and motorcycles on a clean flat deck. To the body shop, the dealership, or your driveway.
Roadside Assistance
Lockouts, boosts, tire changes and fuel delivery. The small problems that stop your day, sorted on the spot.
Common questions
Cochrane questions
- Can you tow a horse trailer near Cochrane?
- Yes, and it is common work on Highway 22 and the 1A. A loaded trailer is a different job from an empty one — tell dispatch whether there are animals aboard when you call, because that changes both the truck we send and the order we do things in.
- Will you come out to an acreage or a range road?
- Yes. We run equipment that can get down a soft or rutted approach, which matters in spring when range roads west of Cochrane turn to gumbo. Give dispatch the range road and township numbers if you have them.
Nearby
Calgary
Our home base. Light-duty through heavy recovery across the city, the ring road and the industrial parks.
Airdrie
The QEII corridor north of Calgary, plus the Balzac distribution and warehousing belt.
Canmore & the Bow Valley
Mountain grades on the Trans-Canada west — brakes, weather and wildlife.
24 hours · 365 days
Stuck is temporary.
Call and we roll.
Wherever you are in Southern Alberta — shoulder, lease road or yard — one call gets the right truck moving.