Waffco heavy duty towing fleet lined up at the Lake Station facility

Police agency support | Heavy recovery | Private calls

Lake Station's heavy duty recovery team for serious roadway incidents.

Waffco Heavy Duty Towing and Recovery supports law enforcement, commercial fleets, steel mill traffic, and local motorists across Northwest Indiana with certified operators and serious equipment.

ATRI Certified OperatorsAmerican Towing & Recovery Institute trained professionals.
Rotators to 85 TonBuilt for rollovers, lifts, landings, and complex recoveries.
Steel Corridor ReadyMinutes from Burns Harbor, Gary, major mills, and regional freight routes.

What we do

Clean response, heavy capability.

Our core work is heavy duty towing and recovery for police agencies, but our crews also handle light duty police calls, private heavy and light duty tows, winching, undecking, load transfers, steel coil recovery, and specialty transport.

Need the exact location?

Use the location button at the top of the page or inside the service request form. It captures GPS coordinates so dispatch can pinpoint the scene when landmarks are unclear.

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Services

From police impounds to full-scale recovery.

01

Heavy Duty Towing

Tractors, trailers, buses, vocational trucks, and disabled commercial vehicles.

02

Airbag Recovery

Dedicated rescue truck with advanced airbags for lifting, recovery, and controlled landing bags.

03

Load Work

Load transfers, restacks, swap-outs, trailer unstacks, undecking, and freight recovery.

04

Light Duty

Police agency tows, private calls, specialty car transport, motorcycles, and local vehicle recovery.

Waffco rotators recovering an overturned tractor trailer
Heavy recovery on major routes
Forklift unloading freight from an overturned trailer
Load transfer and restack support
Waffco rotator fleet at the yard
Equipment depth at the yard

Trusted locally

Reputation built one hard call at a time.

Waffco works near I-80, I-94, I-65, I-90, US 20, and US 30, with deep experience around the Burns Harbor and Gary steel mill corridor.

"They really made an awful situation for my son less stressful. I highly recommend Waffco Towing."

Amy Waldron

"Professional attitude, very nice equipment, reasonable pricing. Will absolutely use them again."

Ludvik B.

"Excellent service. Excellent sense of urgency. Thank you so much for getting us off the road safe."

Carlie

"Mike and Jay quickly unstacked the trailer so our customer could get back on the road."

Michael King