24 hour towing along the Bayonne light rail, NJ: the 8th, 22nd, 34th and 45th Street stops and the lots beside them

The two uptown stops draw the most commuter cars, parked at seven in the morning and left until after midnight. A battery that was weak at breakfast is finished by the last train. Say which station and which row, stay with the car, and the driver rings from the lot entrance; the jump pack usually settles it.

The two southern stops send riders back to cars on the cross streets or to the terminus lot at 8th. Keys shut in the car, a flat picked up on Avenue E, a car that will not turn over in the cold. Give the station and the side, or the street with East or West if the car is on a block nearby.

Night-shift nurses and techs come out at seven to cars that sat in the lot since the previous evening, and the day shift leaves at eleven to the same thing. Once you have phoned, security lets the truck through. Give dispatch the lot or the deck level and say whether you are with the car or still inside.

Avenue E runs the length of the west side between Kennedy Boulevard and the tracks, residential most of the way, with driveways cut tight between parked cars. A crossover that will not start in one of those driveways rides a flatbed, and the driver sets the truck so nobody's exit is blocked while it loads.