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AI answering service for towing companiesNever lose a tow to voicemail again
An AI dispatcher that picks up when your crew can't — nights, weekends, while everyone's on a hook. It gets the vehicle, the location, and the destination, quotes the job, and hands your dispatcher a clean ticket.
A towing call that goes to voicemail is usually a call that goes to the next company on the list. The fix isn't a bigger answering service reading from a script — it's a line that actually understands towing: where the car is, where it's going, whether it rolls, and what the job costs.
At Athena Towing, the main line rings a human first. If nobody picks up, the AI takes the call, works the job out, quotes it, and puts it in front of the crew. Customers can also text for a quote. It's built around the way your shop already runs — your rates, your service area, your dispatch software — not a generic template.
How the AI dispatcher works, and what it connects to
A customer calls your main line
Your main line rings the office phone first, then every crew phone at once. Each leg is screened, so a driver's voicemail picking up doesn't end the call. The call just keeps moving.
Nobody can grab it, so the AI answers
Nights, weekends, or everyone on a hook. It answers in a natural voice, as your company, 24/7. If the main AI provider ever fails mid-call, a backup from a different vendor takes over.
It works the job like a dispatcher
Vehicle, whether it rolls, the pickup, the destination, and a callback number. Addresses are checked and far pickups are read back, so the truck goes to the right place.
It quotes from your real rates
Hook fee, mileage, and your pricing rules are calculated in code from real road distances. The AI only reads the result out, so it can't invent a price.
The job lands in Towbook
A booked call becomes a Towbook job with the details filled in. Web and text leads go the same way.
Your team sees it in team chat
Every new lead, booked job, missed call, and handoff request posts to your dispatch channel. Your dispatcher can also type a job in plain English there, get a priced quote back, and tap to send the invoice or create the Towbook job.
A human whenever it matters
If a caller asks for a person or a manager, or the job is out of the ordinary, the AI hands off and the team gets paged.
The customer is never left hanging
If no driver has claimed the job in 15 minutes, the customer gets a text with options to keep waiting or cancel. Drivers who haven't accepted get reminder calls.
Texts work the same way
Customers can text your line. They get one standard reply and an offer of an instant AI quote, and your team answers the rest from a private inbox on their phones (phone-number login, roster-gated).
Everything is recorded and reviewed
Calls are recorded and transcribed, scored by an automated quality check every day, and summarized in the owner's brief. Watchdogs flag dead air, stuck calls, and phones that keep missing.
At a glance
Humans first, AI as the net
Ring your crew first; the AI only answers the calls nobody could get to.
Quotes from your real rates
Hook fees, mileage, and your pricing rules — computed, not guessed by the AI.
Your whole crew rings at once
Calls reach every available driver together, and the roster syncs from your dispatch software daily.
Watchdogs built in
Dead air, stuck calls, and phones that keep missing calls get flagged before a customer notices.
What's included
- Inbound call answering when your crew is busy or off the clock
- Vehicle, pickup, and drop-off captured on every call
- Quotes from your own rate rules, with mileage calculated
- Text-message quoting for customers who'd rather not call
- Handoff to your dispatcher or straight to a driver's phone
- Call logs and recordings so nothing is he-said-she-said
- A text to the customer if no driver has claimed the job in 15 minutes
- Daily digest of what came in and what was missed
- Runs on your own phone account — no answering-service middleman
Running daily at Athena Towing, the owner's own tow company in Athens, Georgia.
Guide: AI answering vs. an answering service vs. a night dispatcher
Questions
Will the AI replace my dispatcher?
Does it make up prices?
What phone system does it need?
Is this the same as TowPilot or similar products?
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Towbook & Motor-Club Billing
Billing-portal data entry pre-filled for all the major motor clubs: dispatch matched to Towbook, deadhead miles calculated, a human checks and submits.
Payroll & Commissions
Every driver's commission calculated each week from your jobs, with your real pay rules, ready to approve.
Books, Bank & Reconciliation
Bank accounts connected, transactions auto-categorized, card processor reconciled — books you can trust without QuickBooks.
Website & Google Ads
Ads synced with your dispatch software: every ad call traced to a job, true ROI after costs, and each job's profit sent back to Google, so it can bid on profit instead of phone calls.
Advisor Reports
Daily, weekly, and monthly briefs on every mile, dollar, customer, and ad group — like a CFO, COO, and CEO reading your numbers for you.