JC's Towing and Recovery LLC

07/01/2026

When I pull up to the fix or remove an issue. Often ill hear "great the expert is here" to which I always turn to look for the expert. If an expert is going to appear, by all means they can instruct me.

Often on many jobs the customer will tell me that they once drove a tow truck or a rotator ect.. I love to ask those guys.. " in your experience, how would you handle this issue?" They always tell me that it's my truck and equipment and that I'm the expert and decline to offer any knowledge. Expert title in any feild is a bold statement. I will take suggestions from anyone, but I wont always use them. I love to learn more about my craft. Every job teaches me something. Sometimes it's just simply how to put a particular vehicle into neutral. Ultimately I just want to complete jobs damage free and injury free.

This picture shows a real expert. (If you have any knowledge of tow trucks... this comment is laced with sarcasm)

06/25/2026

4TH of July Giveaway! 💥

The vehicle I have on my truck belongs to one of the winners of our AAA Giveaway last summer. We will be doing another drawing on July 4th. In a world where vehicles being built are becoming steadily unreliable, odds are stacked against you to wind up paying a hefty tow bill. Let AAA cover that tow bill.

3 lucky participants will win a years membership.

To enter- comment "Enter Me" on this post. Even if you have AAA, please Enter. I will mail you a check to cover your existing membership. You do not have to live in Delta Junction to participate.

Located in Delta Junction and we provide heavy to light towing from Fairbanks to beaver creek Canada.

06/24/2026

A little crane type work today. Estimated weight of about 20k.

Thanks to Metcalf Trucking LLC for the referral to load this tank.

06/07/2026

Heavy wreckering is all fun and games until it's time to clean up. 😆

Thanks to my good friend Elijah Koppers for letting me borrow his dump trailer. As well as my wife's parents for letting me borrow their skidsteer.

05/22/2026

About six years ago, when we first started the towing business, things were pretty quiet. Back then, the phone barely rang. Honestly, even today it's not like I'm out towing people every single day. I'll still go stretches without a call now and then. But in those early days? Wow. It felt like absolutely nothing was happening.

Thankfully, we stuck with it, and over time the business actually grew into something.

Anyway, I think this was probably around my third tow call ever for JC's Towing. It was about 10:30 at night when the phone finally went off. Insurance had dispatched a lockout call over at the cave restaurant here in Delta. Somebody had gotten off work, locked their keys in the car, and called their insurance company for help.

So I get out of bed and start getting dressed, and I notice my wife is getting dressed too.

I looked over at her and said, "What are you doing?"

She said, "I'm going with you."

I just said, "Okay," and didn't think much of it.

We both finished getting ready, climbed into the tow truck, and headed over there. I did the lockout, got the customer's car opened up, sent them on their way, handled everything I needed to with insurance, and then we headed back home.

On the drive back, I finally asked her, "So... why did you want to come with me?"

She looked at me and said, "Well, it was late, and I thought maybe somebody was trying to hurt you."

I just kind of looked at her and started laughing.

I said, "Well, that's sweet of you to worry about me, but nobody is calling their insurance company, setting up a fake lockout, pretending they locked their keys in their car, all just to ambush the tow truck driver."

Now maybe that actually happens somewhere. I've never heard of it. If it does, I feel bad for those tow guys.

But for me, that was a first.

I always thought it was pretty funny that on one of my very first calls in the business, I was thinking, "Great, I finally got work," while my wife was thinking, "This might be an elaborate murder setup."

The best part is she came anyway—just in case. Hailey Edwards

05/20/2026

Earlier today I got a call out around mile marker 293 of the richardson. A woman had gone off the road and ended up stuck down the side of a steep embankment. By the time I got there, her car was sitting at an angle that made you wonder how it hadn’t rolled the rest of the way down.

I got set up and pulled the vehicle out without much trouble. Problem was, once I got it up on solid ground, I found out the parking brake—an electric one—was stuck on. I tried everything I could think of. I disconnected the battery, tried some override procedures, worked through a few tricks that sometimes get those things to reset, but nothing worked.

I finally looked at her and said, “Unfortunately, we’re gonna have to tow it. If you try driving it like this, you’ll burn that parking brake up.”

She shrugged and said, “Okay, that’s fine.”

So we headed back into Delta. I dropped her car off at a friend’s place over on Milltan, got everything settled, and before she got out I asked, “You got somebody coming to get you?”

She said, “Could you give me a ride home?”

I said sure.

We’ll leave the road unnamed and just say it was somewhere off Clearwater.

I turned down the road and took her home, dropped her off in her driveway, and then backed out and started heading back the way I came.

That’s when I saw a car coming at me.

This car came flying down the road toward me, and the driver was hanging his arm out the window waving like he was trying to stop a runaway train. I stopped and opened my door.

The guy got out and came marching up to the truck.

“What are you doing on my road?” he asked.

I looked at him and said, “Well, it’s a public road, ain’t it?”

“No,” he snapped. “It’s our road. What are you doing on our road?”

At that point I wasn’t interested in arguing. I’d been out working all day and had no reason to explain myself to some stranger.

I said, “Well, you have yourself a good night, man.”

I started easing forward.

Then things got weird.

He grabbed onto the grab rail on the side of my truck and pulled himself up. I gave it a little gas and instead of backing off, he hopped onto my step. Now he was hanging onto both grab rails—one on the outside and one by the steering wheel—with both feet planted on the step.

So I stopped.

I looked at him and said, “Man, I’m about to punch you.”

“Go ahead,” he said.

I said, “Okay, I’m about to pull something else out on you.”

“Yeah,” he said. “Go ahead. Shoot me while you’re at it.”

Now by this point I’d already made it pretty clear this was a bad idea, and none of it was getting through to him.

I grabbed him and shoved him hard.

Nothing.

He held on.

I shoved him harder, and now he was fighting to keep his grip.

Then I pulled him in close and said, “Buddy, you’re about to get hurt real bad here.”

That’s when I smelled it.

Alcohol.

Suddenly the whole situation made more sense.

And I thought, *You know what? I don’t actually have to hurt this guy.*

So I changed gears.

I said, “Let me call the troopers and let them deal with this.”

He said, “Yeah, go ahead and call the troopers.”

I said, “I can smell the alcohol on your breath. They’ll probably love talking to you about that.”

He looked at me and said, “I’m on my property.”

I said, “Well, let’s see what they have to say about that.”

That did it.

He let go of the truck, jumped off the step, turned around, and walked straight back to his car.

I shut my door and drove off.

So if rumors ever start floating around town about me doing something shady in a tow truck on some unnamed road off Clearwater, that’s my official version of events.

05/19/2026

Reminder- We do some transport here and there. Not just vehicles. Building materials, metal, any other interesting items. Today's load is rebar from C&R pipe. I have an 8,000 pound capacity on this truck.

I don't transport very often and I may not be cheaper than others. I could possibly work in a discounted back haul. Give me a call, text or message and we can discuss it.

05/17/2026

Anybody in the Delta or Fairbanks area polish aluminum? I hand buffed my rims and tanks yesterday but looking for a better result. I would probably get the rollback done too, if so.

05/13/2026

Statistically I see more vehicle breakdowns during the daylight hours. 90% of the moose hits, rollovers, and other accidents occur in the evening or middle of the night. What does this tell you? Dont drive at night. Picture is what you should be doing in the evenings, grilling a steak and then going to bed. 😆

05/06/2026

This past winter I was out by the border dragging a tractor/ trailer out of the ditch. I thought it was going to be relatively quick so didn't take any food with me other than some drinks. Poor judgment on my part but nonetheless here we are hours into this job. I'm now cold, tired and hungry enough to eat a turd. I'm at a point to where I need to reposition my truck and re rig my gear. I used this opportunity to open one lane and let the line of traffic pass. Im standing on the yellow line waving traffic through. Along comes a crowley pipe bomb (propane hauler) he slows down to a crawl as he passes me, he hands me a big bag of beef jerky. I ate that jerky like it was a steak cooked to medium rare perfection. I don't know the driver's name. Our community of truckers in this state is truly great!

Edit- driver was Larry Johnson. Thanks for the share Randi Matheson and locating this drivers identity.