(414) 279-5510 Call Trailer Towing · Fox Point, Milwaukee County
Blown tire on I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway), a seized wheel bearing, a snapped coupler, or a tow vehicle that just quit — MKE Towing & Recovery hauls your trailer and whatever’s on it. A flatbed when it can’t roll, a rated hitch when it can, the load secured every time. Campers, boats, utility, cargo & car haulers. ~45-min typical Fox Point response, pricing scoped up front.
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Pricing scoped before we roll — hook-up or load-up, per-mile, and any field service, then an itemized invoice. On a covered motor-club plan we bill the provider directly where supported.
Trailer trouble in Fox Point? Trailer towing recovers and transports a disabled trailer — and its load — when a tire, bearing, axle, or coupler fails, or the tow vehicle quits. MKE Towing & Recovery brings a flatbed when it can’t roll safely or a rated hitch when it can, secures the load, and protects the trailer — campers, boats, utility, cargo & car haulers. ~45-min typical Fox Point response, pricing scoped up front. Call (414) 279-5510.
Pull as far onto the shoulder as you can, chock the trailer wheels, and put your hazards on — don’t try to re-hitch a bent tongue beside a live lane. Tell dispatch your trailer type, what failed, whether there’s a load, and your mile marker on I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway) — a real Fox Point dispatcher answers live and we roll the right rig, flatbed or rated hitch, the first time.
Local to Fox Point
Here's how we run trailer towing & transport in Fox Point, Milwaukee County — the corridors we run, the boat ramps and yards we reach, and how fast a flatbed gets to you.
Apart from the freeway on its western border, Fox Point has no commercial through-traffic to speak of — it's a quiet, low-speed residential village. That western border is I-43 (the North-South Freeway), the main route in and out; the interchanges just outside the village stack up weekday mornings between 7 and 9 and again from 4 to 6. North Shore commuters keep Port Washington Road, North Santa Monica Boulevard and Lake Drive (WIS-32) moving locally, with signalized crossings where Port Washington meets Bradley and Dean Roads and along Lake Drive at the Bradley, Calumet, Dean and Green Tree cross-streets. The interior streets around Schlitz Audubon and Doctors Park stay calm.
14 road miles door to door from the South Side yard; Milwaukee & Waukesha counties both covered, live ETA on the call.
Most Fox Point trailer calls start around Lake Drive / lakefront, Longacre, and Beach Drive bluffs: blown tires, seized bearings, and snapped couplers, plus tow vehicles that quit with a camper or boat behind them. Whether it sits near Port Washington Road corridor (Audubon Court, RiverPoint Village) or out on I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway) and WIS-32 (N Lake Drive), we bring a flatbed when the trailer can’t roll and a rated hitch when it can, and haul the whole rig to your home, shop, or the ramp. From Lake Drive / lakefront, Longacre, and Beach Drive bluffs to the I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway) shoulder, we keep Fox Point trailer moves on schedule — 7 days a week.
Warm months mean ramps and campgrounds; cold months mean storage rows — either way, Fox Point trailer calls keep coming. Winter ice & lake-effect snow (Nov–Mar) — bluff and lakefront roads freeze first.
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.
Because Lake Michigan runs along the village's eastern edge, Fox Point's humid-continental weather gets heavy moderation from the water. Where the wooded Lake Drive and Beach Drive bluffs rise near the Schlitz Audubon preserve, ice and cold hang on well after inland streets clear. Winter means lake-effect snow and dense shoreline fog; in spring and fall, lakeshore mornings often start fogged in and several degrees colder than anywhere just west of I-43.
Serving Fox Point ZIP codes: 53217
Sound familiar?
A shredded trailer tire on I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway) with a load still aboard. We get you off the lane, then swap to a flatbed — or get a tire on if the rim and axle survived.
A bearing that overheated and locked the wheel. Dragging it ruins the spindle — we load the trailer on a flatbed and haul it to your shop.
After a curb, a pothole, or a blowout the axle won’t track straight. It rides flat — load and all — to wherever you need it.
The trailer won’t reattach to the ball. We secure it, load it, and move it without forcing a bad hitch beside a live Fox Point lane.
Your truck died on I-43 (western border / North-South Freeway) with the camper or boat behind it. We can take the trailer, the tow vehicle, or both — in one trip.
Dropped a wheel off the ramp or buried the bunks in soft ground. We winch the rig back onto the pavement and protect the hull.
The full playbook
Runs or not, we load it — drive-on, winch-on, or crane — and secure it to rated points every time. The complete guide (equipment classes, what's in scope, and exactly how your trailer rides) lives on our main Trailer Towing page.
Read the full Trailer Towing guideWhat it costs & why
Trailer pricing comes down to one thing: can it roll? A hitch-and-pull tow is a hook-up fee plus per-loaded-mile, so it’s predictable; a flatbed transport is billed for the load-up and the haul. The biggest question for your Fox Point bill is which one your trailer needs — so we start there, and you hear the structure before we roll.
You get the rate structure — hook-up or load-up, per-mile, and any field service — before we roll, and an itemized invoice after. No lowball-then-add-on. On a covered motor-club plan we bill the provider directly where supported.
Get your Fox Point priceBallpark it now — live estimate
An empty utility trailer and a loaded fifth-wheel or a boat aren’t the same job. Weight and length change the truck and the time.
A rolling trailer is hook-and-go. A damaged wheel, axle, or coupler means a flatbed load — more time and gear, billed for the load-up.
A short hop home versus a long haul, and how reachable you are — a boat ramp, soft ground, or a tight site adds work.
Sometimes a roadside tire swap gets you rolling for less than a full transport — we’ll tell you honestly which one makes sense.
Getting help in Fox Point
A live Fox Point dispatcher picks up. The crew checks the tire, bearing, axle, and coupler, the load, and the access before anything moves.
Wheels chocked, cones and flares out, lane coordination set — so the work zone is safe for the crew, for you, and for passing traffic.
If it rolls safely, we couple it to a rated hitch. If a wheel, axle, or coupler is out, it goes on the flatbed — not dragged on a dead bearing.
Winched onto the bed or coupled to a rated ball or pintle, with the load lashed down before we move an inch.
Straps and chains to rated points, the hull or cargo secured, finish protected — secured to spec for the road.
To your home, shop, storage lot, or the ramp, with clean documentation for the claim or the file.
Why Fox Point drivers & haulers call MKE
The dispatcher gives you a real ETA on the closest unit across Fox Point — and we prioritize trailers blocking live lanes.
Flatbed transport and rated-hitch towing for campers, boats, utility, cargo, car-hauler, and dump trailers — loaded or empty.
Years of towing and recovery across Milwaukee and Waukesha — freeways, ramps, and back roads. Licensed & Insured — USDOT# 4272551.
Rated straps and chains to rated points — boat on the bunks, car on the hauler, cargo level — so it arrives the way it left.
Trailer Towing in Fox Point
Usually about 45 minutes — a recovery truck rolls from our South Side base ~14 miles out to an estate driveway, a landscaping job, or a Port Washington Road curb. A live dispatcher confirms a real ETA 24/7. Call (414) 279-5510.
A trailer recovery is quoted before we hook up — the figure moves with the trailer's size and load, whether it rolls, and the distance to your drop-off. Trailer-class tows start at $450, length-tiered so a small utility trailer isn't billed like a 53-footer. You hear the price on the call. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes. Landscaping and tree-service trailers working Fox Point's wooded estates blow tires and cook bearings on the freeze-thaw pavement — we bring a flatbed when the trailer can't roll and a rated hitch when it can, lash the load to rated points, and haul the rig to your yard or shop. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes — cargo trailers, car haulers, dump trailers and utility trailers, loaded or empty, including the tree-service and estate-maintenance trailers common in the village. We secure the load to rated points and bring a flatbed if a trailer is damaged or won't roll. Tell dispatch what you're hauling. Call (414) 279-5510.
Yes. When the truck or SUV pulling the trailer dies on Lake Drive or an estate driveway, we can tow the tow vehicle and move the trailer too, so you're not splitting the rig across two calls. Tell dispatch both vehicles when you call (414) 279-5510.
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