TOW FEE LIMITS BY STATE · CARS, PICKUPS & HEAVY TRUCKS
Your car was towed. What may they legally charge you?
Type in your state and the numbers on the bill. The checker compares every line against the published maximum — the statute, the rate card, the manual — and prints the verdict: within the max, over the cap by the dollar, rights violated, or no cap where you are.
The Tow Bill Kit — $39, one time
One kit, two tracks: the Car Track and the Heavy Track. The statute-cited demand letter, the complaint pack, the release scripts, the court path, the bill-audit walk-through and the cargo letters — every artifact the checker points to, written out in full.
One-time payment. No subscription, ever.
Cars & light trucks
The everyday tow: the apartment-lot seizure, the private-lot tow, the police impound. Twenty-seven states cap the tow itself; more cap storage, drop fees, and gate fees. The rest still write rights — property access, notification, complaint paths — that yards count on you not knowing.
Start with your state
How the verdict works
1. Your receipt goes in
State, city, who ordered the tow, and the itemized charges — the same lines the yard wrote.
2. The published card answers
Every number prints only with its instrument behind it: the code section, the rate card, the county schedule. Where the law sets no number, the verdict says so — never an invented cap.
3. You get the next step
The complaint body by name, the rights that were violated, and the kit that turns the verdict into letters and filings.
Heavy Truck
Drive something bigger?
Semi and tractor-trailer bills, read the same way — release first, cargo second, dollars by line — against the new state manuals and tariffs written for commercial towing.
The stories are real: Memphis — the $30,000 boot · Charlotte — $9,000 for 30 minutes
Guides
Towed from your apartment? The authorization audit
Apartment tows fail on paperwork more than on parking. Who signed for your tow, what the signage said, and the two questions that void a tow.
Police-ordered tows: different tow, different rules
When an officer orders the tow, rotation lists and published program rates replace the free market. What changes, what doesn't.
Booted? The city module
Booting is a city game — New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and a handful of others write the rules. Fees, release clocks, and who takes the complaint.
Cite-or-silence
A dollar figure appears on this site only with its rate card attached and a Rules checked October 2026 stamp. That discipline — and what happens when we find a wrong number — is written out on the method page.
Rules checked October 2026