How to get your towed motorcar back

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Some common reasons for getting towed include street sweeping, illegal parking, and 5 or more overdue parking tickets.

If you know your license plate number, you can search our online database. Yous can also call the Boston Constabulary Department at 617-343-4629 to find out which company towed your automobile.

If y'all don't know your license plate number, call Boston Police at 617-343-4629. Please provide the make, model, and color of vehicle, the address where it was towed from, or other important information. You can as well contact Tow operators in Boston directly.

After you lot detect your motorcar
  • If your car is located at the City of Boston Tow Lot, delight continue down to Step 2 on this page.
  • If your car was towed by a private tow visitor, curl downward to Step three.
  • If your car was towed on a state route or as an abandoned vehicle, bank check out our towing folio for more data.

We accuse a $90 tow fee, along with a storage fee of $three per hour, upward to $fifteen a solar day. You tin can pay with cash, a money order, a cashier'south bank check, or a debit or credit card. If y'all pay by menu, you will exist discipline to a 2.5 percent fee.

In that location is also a kiosk at the tow lot that you can utilise 24 hours a twenty-four hour period, seven days a week. To use the kiosk, you need to come across these requirements:

  • You lot tin can pay with cash, VISA, Mastercard, or Discover card (cards subject to a 2.v percent fee)
  • Y'all need to know your license plate number.
  • You need to know your insurance information.
  • Your motorcar must be actively registered.
  • You need a valid license, and the name on your license needs to match the proper name on your credit or debit card.

The City of Boston Tow Lotis located at:

200 Frontage Road
Boston, MA 02118

The Metropolis of Boston tow lot is only open up Mon through Friday, from 7 a.m. - ten:xxx p.m. Automated kiosks are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for vehicle releases. For more information, call 617-635-3900 or email btd@boston.gov.

Remember to pay your parking ticket and fees

To avoid a late fee, you will besides demand to pay or appeal your parking ticket within 21 days. The ticket will be stuck under your windshield wiper. Acquire how to pay a parking ticket.

If your vehicle was seized due to five or more than tickets unpaid, to get your car back, you need to pay all of your overdue parking tickets and fees. You lot can make your payment at the City of Boston Tow Lot when you lot come up to get your motorcar.

Phone call the visitor before yous arrive and ask what you need to do before picking upwardly your vehicle. Your vehicle may have been towed for:

  • street cleaning
  • illegal parking on private property, or
  • the Boston Constabulary authorized the tow.

If the Boston Constabulary requested the tow, you will need to go to the constabulary station before getting your car from the private tow company. When you lot call the company, they will tell you what y'all need to do.

Tow operators take cash, equally well as debit and credit cards. These companies tin can charge yous:

  • $108 for the tow
  • $35 for each solar day they store your motorcar, and
  • a fuel surcharge. To notice out what the fuel surcharge will be, bank check the fuel charge factor on the state'southward website.

Please annotation: Other charges may be added.

Remember to pay your parking ticket and fees

To avoid a belatedly fee, you will also demand to pay or appeal your parking ticket within 21 days. The ticket will be stuck nether your windshield wiper. Larn how to pay a parking ticket.

If your vehicle was seized due to five or more tickets unpaid, to get your car back, yous need to pay all of your overdue parking tickets and fees. You can brand your payment at the City of Boston Tow Lot when yous come to become your machine.

  • Demand to Know:

    Sign upwardly for phone, email, or text alerts so that you can be notified the adjacent fourth dimension y'all are towed.

    Towing alerts

  • 200 Frontage Route
    BOSTON, MA 02118

  • Shouldn't take been towed?

    If your vehicle has been towed for parking illegally on a City of Boston street, you lot can have a walk-in hearing within five days of the tow, or schedule a hearing with the Parking Clerk. Call 617-635-4410 for more information.

    You are not eligible for a hearing if your vehicle has been towed for 5 or more overdue tickets. Y'all can only have a hearing with the Parking Clerk if you lot were towed from a public manner in Boston.

  • Towed for trespass, or abandonment?

    Nosotros created a separate page that also includes information about what to practice when yous get towed from a land route in Boston or as an abandoned vehicle.

    More than towing information