Long Road Repair runs mobile road service for semi trucks, semi trailers and heavy equipment across the South Sound. The shop is at 1616 E 26th St in the Tacoma Tideflats and the service truck goes out from there — to a freeway shoulder, a truck stop, a distribution centre dock, a container yard or a job site.
We cover the whole rig, not just the tractor. A trailer with a seized brake, a flat landing gear, dead lighting or a blown airbag is the same call as an engine that will not start. So is a yard tractor, a forklift, a loader or a piece of heavy equipment that died mid-shift.
Tires in the common drive and trailer sizes, air leaks, glad hands and lines, brake chambers and slack adjusters, batteries, starters and cables, lighting and trailer plugs, belts, hoses, coolant, fuel filters, air dryers, jump starts, lockouts and fuel delivery. We carry a diagnostic laptop for engine fault codes, so a derate or a check-engine light does not automatically mean a tow.
Engine tear-downs, transmission and clutch work, alignment, frame and body work, and anything that needs a lift. If we can get you rolling well enough to drive in under your own power, that is almost always cheaper than a tow plus a roadside repair — and we will tell you honestly which situation you are in.
Our working radius is roughly thirty miles around Tacoma, which covers the I-5 corridor from Seattle down to Olympia, the Kent and Puyallup valleys, the SR-16 side of the Narrows and the Kitsap peninsula. Response time depends on where you are and what hour it is, and we would rather give you a real window on the phone than a number off a web page. If we cannot reach you quickly we will say so, so you can call someone else instead of waiting.
Tacoma · Fife · Lakewood · University Place · Puyallup · Sumner · Edgewood · Milton · Federal Way · Auburn · Kent · Renton · Tukwila · Des Moines & SeaTac · Burien · Seattle · Pacific & Algona · Covington · Maple Valley · Enumclaw · Buckley · Bonney Lake · Orting · Graham · Frederickson · Spanaway · Parkland · DuPont · Lacey · Olympia · Tumwater · Yelm · Gig Harbor · Port Orchard · Bremerton · Silverdale
Where the truck is — exit number, mile marker, cross street or yard address — what it is doing or not doing, the unit and trailer numbers, and whether it is sitting in a live lane. If it is a tire, the size off the sidewall and which position. That is usually enough for us to load the right parts before we leave, which is the difference between one trip and two.
Trucks do not break during business hours. Road service answers outside them — that is the point of it. If you are searching 24 hour truck repair near me or emergency truck repair at 2am with a rig on the shoulder, you are calling the right number: (425) 900-6212.
To be straight with you about what “24 hour” means: road service runs around the clock. The shop bays keep normal hours — Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm, Saturday 8am to 4pm. An alignment at 2am is not a thing anyone offers honestly.
Tires, air leaks and gladhands, brake chambers and slack adjusters, batteries and jump starts, lighting and charging, fuel delivery, lockouts and most roadside out-of-service items.
Sometimes the right call is getting you off a live lane and doing the real repair in a lot or a bay. We will say which one you are looking at instead of taking the easier job.
The Port and tideflats first, then the South Sound core, the valley and north, and an outer ring to roughly 50 miles. Honest windows per band on the service area page.
That is usually enough for us to load the right parts before we leave, which is most of the difference between one trip and two.
There is a road call charge and it is quoted before we roll, not after we arrive. You will know the number while you can still choose.
Usually. Most out-of-service items — lighting, brake stroke, air leaks, mud flaps, tires — are roadside work. Anything structural comes to the shop.
Sometimes, and we will tell you when. Paying for a road call that turns into a tow anyway is the worst outcome for you, so we would rather be honest at the start.
1616 E 26th St, Tacoma, WA 98421
Mon-Fri: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM Saturday: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Sunday: Closed
