Heavy Duty Towing in Wartrace, TN

Heavy Duty Towing in Wartrace often means big rigs of a particular kind: horse trailers, gooseneck haulers, motorhomes and farm trucks on narrow country roads. Wartrace is a Bedford County town of 653 people at the 2020 census, northeast of Shelbyville, incorporated in 1858 and sitting at 833 feet. If a heavy vehicle is stuck near here, call (615) 880-9643. Dispatch answers 24/7 and gives you an arrival estimate on the call.

A railroad stop that became horse country

The town began as Wartrace Depot, a stop on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad in the early 1850s, and at its height it serviced 13 trains a day. The Walking Horse and Eastern Railroad still links it to Shelbyville and is in part-time operation. Wikipedia calls Wartrace a hub of the Tennessee Walking Horse industry, a breeding center in the early 1900s, and the home of the Wartrace Horse Show, held annually since 1906. Horse-show traffic can put big trailers and motorhomes on small roads, where one stuck rig or a flat on a gooseneck can block the way.

Two-lane roads in every direction

SR 269 passes through town and shares a short stretch of pavement with SR 64 there. SR 269 is a two-lane highway for its entire 49.2 miles, running through farmland and wooded hills, and it crosses Garrison Fork and the Duck River south of Wartrace. Bell Buckle is five miles north along SR 269, and from there the road continues 11 miles to US 231 near Christiana. SR 64 leads from Wartrace toward I-24, and exit 97 on the interstate is SR 64 (Beechgrove Road), toward Shelbyville, at the Coffee-Bedford county line. A truck on these roads rarely has a wide shoulder to work with.

Weather and county facts

Wartrace has a humid subtropical climate, with about 55 inches of rain over 116 precipitation days a year. Bedford County, with its seat at Shelbyville, has 50,237 residents and 475 square miles. Rural miles like these mean longer approaches, which is why exact locations matter.

A very small town

The infobox lists Wartrace at 0.88 square miles, all land. There is little room on its streets for a long wheelbase to turn, and trailers parked for a show or a delivery can fill the curb. Give us the street name and the nearest building so the driver of the wrecker knows where to stage.

North and south of town

North of Wartrace, SR 269 runs to Bell Buckle and on to Christiana, where it meets US 231. South of town it passes Cortner and Normandy, heads through mountains near its southern end, then enters Coffee County and ends at US 41A in Tullahoma. Because most of that is two lanes with little shoulder, a heavy wrecker may need to close a lane, and the approach direction matters.

What to tell us

• Your road: SR 269, SR 64, a county road or a farm lane, and the nearest crossing
• Your rig: horse trailer, gooseneck or fifth-wheel hauler, motorhome, bus or truck
• Whether animals are aboard, and whether they are calm and secured
• Whether you are on pavement, a shoulder or a field
• Who is paying: owner, trainer, show manager or insurer

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