24 hour towing at Cape Liberty, MOTBY and Constable Hook, Bayonne, NJ: the east side that works all night

A car parked at the cruise port on a Saturday and collected a week later has had seven days to drain its battery, and on a disembarkation morning the lot fills with people turning keys to nothing. Tell dispatch which lot, which row and the gate you came in by; the port's security admits the truck once you have called. A jump clears most of these, and an EV that is flat rides the flatbed to a charger or a dealer.

The old Military Ocean Terminal is now a Costco, a run of warehouses, new apartment blocks and the long boulevard out to the cruise terminal. Lot batteries, lockouts in the Costco lot, and delivery vans that quit at a dock before the morning run. Say which building and which side; the peninsula's roads are wide and the truck comes straight in from the Route 440 turn.

The terminals on the Hook run tankers and tractors around the clock, and a rig that quits in a gate lane or on Hook Road blocks everyone behind it. Medium and heavy-duty trucks handle tankers, tractors, chassis and box trucks here. Fleet managers get a direct line and a single invoice a month, and a call at 4 a.m. reaches the same desk as a call at noon.

The east side is reached across the numbered streets to Avenue A, then out East 22nd Street to the Hook, or by the signed turn off Route 440 for the cruise port. Employee cars along Avenue A and the streets by the terminals die at shift change like everywhere else. Give the cross street and the gate, and the driver knows which way in.