(414) 279-5510 Call Vehicle & Equipment Loading · St. Francis, Milwaukee County
Bought a non-runner, a carrier's inbound, or a machine needs to ride on your trailer in St. Francis? MKE Towing & Recovery brings a tilt deck and winch to load dead, locked, AWD, and heavy collateral — or unload it off a carrier with no ramps — and secure it carefully. On-hook insured, soft straps & wheel nets, flat load fee quoted before we start.
On-hook & garage-keepers insured★ 4.3 · 373 reviews Flat load fee, no surprises Onto your trailer or off a carrier
Flat per-unit fee quoted before we start — vehicles $150, equipment $200, custom items $250. Count the items, know the price. COI on request.
Need a vehicle or piece of equipment loaded or unloaded in St. Francis? Loading & unloading is when the job is getting it on or off a trailer or carrier — not a point-to-point tow. MKE Towing & Recovery brings a tilt deck and winch to load non-running cars, motorcycles, and machinery onto your trailer or carrier — or off it — and strap it down safely. Flat load fee, quoted before we start. On-hook insured. Call (414) 279-5510.
A carrier idling in your driveway is a clock you can’t stop. Tell dispatch the vehicle or machine, where it is, and what it’s going onto — a real St. Francis dispatcher answers live and we bring the tilt deck and the right tie-downs.
Local to St. Francis
Every loading & unloading call in St. Francis, Milwaukee County gets planned around the corridors we run, the industrial areas we serve, and how fast a rig reaches you.
Where the John R. Plewa Memorial Lake Parkway (WIS-794) drops below grade through St. Francis, breakdowns are frequent — and that same stretch is the main commuter artery, linking the Hoan Bridge and downtown to Mitchell Airport just south, heaviest from 7–9 AM and again from 4–6 PM. WIS-32 (Kinnickinnic Avenue, East Howard Avenue and South Lake Drive) and Layton Avenue (CTH-Y) handle the local movement, feeding toward Milwaukee and Cudahy. The city's major surface crossings — East Howard Avenue at Kinnickinnic, Lake Drive and Packard, and East Layton at Pennsylvania and Whitnall — are largely uncontrolled, so watch for right-of-way fender-benders.
The run in is about 5 road miles from our South Side yard — both Milwaukee and Waukesha counties covered. The dispatcher confirms a live ETA on the call.
Around St. Francis, loading work runs between driveways, yards, and lots and the routes out to WIS-32 (Kinnickinnic Ave / E Howard Ave / Lake Drive), WIS-794 (John R. Plewa Memorial Lake Parkway), and CTH-Y (Layton Avenue) — a non-runner bought online, a carrier inbound, or a machine that has to ride on your trailer. Our trucks come through the WIS-32 (Kinnickinnic Ave / E Howard Ave / Lake Drive) ramps, and we bring the tilt deck and winch to wherever it sits and strap it down on-hook insured, or unload it off a carrier with no ramps. The Lake Parkway / Kinnickinnic Avenue commercial-industrial strip anchors most St. Francis loading runs; the rest come off St. Francis Seminary / Seminary Woods, Lakefront (Lake Drive), and Kinnickinnic Avenue corridor.
Winter is the busy season for St. Francis loads — dead batteries, project cars that won’t start, and auction buys that have to come off a carrier in the cold. We winch them on without a running engine, any time.
Wisconsin's legal limits on the interstate run 8'6" wide, 13'6" high, and 80,000 lb gross — anything over needs a WisDOT oversize/overweight permit, and we pull it.
Wisconsin's spring thaw brings posted weight restrictions (“frost laws”) on local roads from roughly March into April — we know which routes are posted and plan the legal way in.
The bluff below St. Francis Seminary is where the lake makes itself felt: dense fog and lake-effect snow settle there and along the lakefront, and shoreline roads can hold cold and ice longer than streets a few blocks inland. Sitting directly on Lake Michigan, the city runs a humid continental pattern — snowy, cold winters; humid, warm summers.
Serving St. Francis ZIP codes: 53235
Sound familiar?
Dead, locked, or out of gear in St. Francis. We winch it onto your trailer — the most common load we run.
Never flat-towed on the wheels. A full flatbed or dollies and skates so the wheels never turn — protects the drivetrain and battery pack.
Bikes, trikes & scooters upright in a wheel chock, strapped to the frame — never cranked down by the bars or levers.
Show cars, lowered, and exotic. A shallow angle so the splitter and exhaust clear — nothing on the body.
A skid steer, forklift, or mini-ex rigged to the rated lift points and chained and binder-secured.
Copart, IAA, or a marketplace pickup. We meet the carrier or hit the yard, winch it on, condition documented at the load.
Running or not, we load it
Getting it on or off your trailer or a carrier is exactly what we do — tilt deck and winch, soft straps and wheel nets, a flat load fee quoted before we start.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510Moving it from one place to another is a point-to-point tow — see our towing services, where we load it, haul it, and set it down.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510A cross-country move rides a transport carrier — we don’t haul long-distance, but we load it onto the hauler at either end, strapped and documented.
Call dispatch — (414) 279-5510Do you handle mine? Almost certainly.
Dead, locked, or out of gear — the tilt deck drops to the ground and the winch pulls it straight on. No running engine or steering needed.
Never flat-towed on the wheels — a full flatbed or dollies and skates so the wheels never turn, protecting the drivetrain and battery.
Bikes in a wheel chock strapped to the frame; classics and lowered cars on extended ramps at a low angle — about not leaving a mark.
A skid steer, forklift, or mini-ex lifted with the right wrecker, crane, or rotator, rigged to the rated lift points and binder-secured. Equipment is a flat $200 per unit; custom items $250.
What loading & unloading covers
Loading & unloading is the load, not the haul — getting it on or off your trailer or a carrier, carefully and on-hook insured. We winch what won't run and strap it without leaving a mark.
Indoor and basement loads are case-by-case — tell us the access and we’ll say straight whether we can do it, before any truck rolls.
Secured, not dragged
The bed drops to the ground and the winch pulls a dead, locked, or out-of-gear vehicle straight on — no running engine or steering needed.
Secured to rated points with over-the-tire wheel nets — never chains on the body, so it leaves no mark.
For AWD, EVs, seized wheels, or a tight basement garage, we roll it on without turning or dragging the wheels.
Handled like it’s ours and insured if it isn’t — on-hook and garage-keepers coverage, Licensed & Insured in Wisconsin.
What it costs & why
A St. Francis load is a flat per-unit fee — vehicles $150, equipment $200, custom items $250 — quoted before we start, not per-mile. Count the items and you know the price. You hear the number before any truck rolls.
The flat load fee covers the trip and getting it on or off, strapped and documented. A tight access, after-hours work, or heavy equipment moves the number — always quoted first, no surprises.
Get your St. Francis priceBallpark it now — live estimate
Vehicles are $150 a unit, equipment $200, custom items $250. Anything over 10,000 lbs gets a crane and special-gear assessment up front.
A free-roller loads fast; a dead, locked, AWD, or seized vehicle takes dollies, skates, and setup.
A curbside load is quick; a tight incline, a narrow lot, or an indoor or basement pull with a GoJak adds work.
A late-night or scheduled load, plus the securing materials — wheel nets, soft straps, binders — factor into the fee.
Getting help in St. Francis
The vehicle or machine, the location in St. Francis, and what it’s going onto. A real person answers, no menus.
We spot the trailer or carrier, set the ramps or tilt deck, and clear the path.
We winch a non-runner, roll an AWD on dollies, or crane equipment — under control, never rushed.
Soft straps, wheel nets, and rated tie-downs, and the driver checks every point before anything moves.
Verified for the haul, or on an unload, set down exactly where you want it.
Why St. Francis buyers & shippers call MKE
Vehicles $150, equipment $200, custom items $250 — quoted before we start, not per-mile. Count the items, know the price.
Prioritized when a carrier is waiting in your driveway; book a window for planned loads.
On-hook and garage-keepers coverage — handled like it's ours. Licensed & Insured — USDOT# 4272551.
Soft straps and over-the-tire wheel nets, never chains on the body — a documented load that leaves no mark.
Vehicle & Equipment Loading in St. Francis
Same-day for most jobs, scheduled to your window — St. Francis's sites (the Kinnickinnic Avenue industrial strip, the retail docks, the lakefront) are only ~5 miles from our yard. Call (414) 279-5510 24/7.
A flat per-unit fee quoted before we start — vehicles $150, equipment $200, custom items $250 — not per-mile, not hourly. Count the items and you know the price; anything over 10,000 lbs gets a crane and special-gear assessment up front. COI on request. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — when a trailer or box truck can't finish its run on the Lake Parkway or a Kinnickinnic Avenue delivery, we move the freight to your replacement unit at the roadside or a safe lot and get the load back on schedule. It pairs with our truck towing so one call handles both. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — cars onto carriers ($150 a unit), boats and skid steers, forklifts and mini-ex onto trailers ($200), and awkward custom items ($250), rigged to rated points with the right wrecker or crane. Lakefront boat moves, industrial equipment and dealer trades are all routine. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — the Kinnickinnic Avenue industrial docks and the below-grade Lake Parkway cut are exactly why we stage the truck's angle before it arrives. We bring the winch, forks or crane the job needs and keep the access open. Tell dispatch what's moving and where it sits. Call (414) 279-5510.
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