Wrecker service Oklahoma City: DPS-licensed wreckers, and what a police or private-lot tow can cost

If you need a wrecker in Oklahoma City

If someone is hurt, call 911 before you call a wrecker. This site is not an emergency dispatcher.

Then sort the job. A tow you ask for is different from a tow an officer orders off a rotation log, and different again from a vehicle a property owner has already had removed from a lot. The price rule depends on which one it is. Say which one it is when you call.

• Name the place: a cross street, a neighborhood, or the highway and the nearest exit. “Oklahoma City” alone is not a pickup.
• Name the vehicle and whether it rolls and steers. The official list does not label a company light or heavy. Ask which truck they will send.
• Open the Oklahoma City mailing-city list and call a roster phone yourself. Match the name they give you to the license name on the card.
• Ask what is included before you agree. Keep the invoice with the vehicle record.

A mailing city is the city on the Department of Public Safety row. It is not a map of streets the company covers, and it is not a police-rotation membership. A shop with another mailing city may or may not drive to your address. Ask.

How wrecker licensing works in Oklahoma

The Department of Public Safety Wrecker Services division licenses wrecker and towing companies. Its Wrecker Services page says division staff set procedures for the licensing, supervision, administration, and control of wrecker vehicles and wrecker and towing services. The page cites statutory authority in 47 O.S. Sections 951 through 964, and it points applicants to Oklahoma Administrative Code 595:25-3-1 for the requirements to apply. This directory does not restate that rule. Read it before you treat a checklist here as the application.

On that same page, each wrecker vehicle operator must submit a negative drug screening, and the screening must be completed in the same year the wrecker service license is submitted. The page says on-the-job training is not accepted in place of a DPS-approved 16-hour basic wrecker operator course. Under the current rule the page describes, a new operator takes that course or provides a resume showing more than two years of the experience the page lists. License fees on the page, which tracks 47 O.S. § 953, are $500 for an original application and $250 to renew. Those are license fees, not the price of a tow.

DPS publishes a list titled “Wrecker Services Licensed in Oklahoma.” This directory uses that public roster. A company appears here when the name and phone match a current official row. See how we check the list. The DPS page says the Corporation Commission, not DPS, is responsible for the rates and fees wrecker services charge. For a rate complaint, the Commission’s rate chart lists 405-522-0131. For other wrecker questions, the DPS page lists Wrecker Services at 405-425-2312.

How many licensed companies this roster lists for Oklahoma City

This directory lists 59 company records whose Department of Public Safety mailing city is Oklahoma City. That is a count of the company pages in this site, and the same 59 cards are on the Oklahoma City city page. Each of those 59 records says it was last checked on August 22, 2026. The count is our roster, not a new download of the state list made today.

The 59 cards are fact cards: name, Oklahoma City mailing city, phone, and license number. They do not say the shop is open now, how long a truck takes, or whether that company runs a heavy truck. Confirm when you call. Do not treat the order of the list as a rank or a review. This site does not publish reviews or star counts.

If the mailing city is Edmond instead, use towing in Edmond. For a car, SUV, or light truck you are asking someone to hook up, the job page is light-duty towing. Questions to ask on the call are on what to ask before you book.

What a police or private-lot tow can cost

Checked October 19, 2026: the Corporation Commission’s Nonconsensual Towing page still heads its rate section “Current Rates” and says that, effective June 1, 2024, the Commission ordered new maximum rates. The page links Order No. 741981 (Case No. TD 2023-000011) and the maximum wrecker rate chart revised May 31, 2024. The order says the rates in Exhibit A to the joint stipulation become effective June 1, 2024, and the signature block is dated May 30, 2024. No later rate order is linked from that current-rates section.

These figures are maximums for a nonconsensual tow, not a quote for a tow you requested, and not a bill from this directory. The Commission’s questions and answers, revised May 30, 2024, quote OAC 595:25-1-2: an “owner request tow” is a tow made at the request of the owner or the owner’s authorized agent and not compelled or required by a law enforcement officer. The same answers say a tow compelled by an officer, or by a property agent with a completed form filed with DPS, is a nonconsensual tow subject to the Order 741981 maximums. They also say a wrecker is not required to charge the maximum. It may charge less.

For one vehicle of 8,000 pounds or less, including equipment and lading, the order and the current chart set these maximums when the wrecker bills distance rates:

Hookup

$108.06. Hookup may be charged only when distance rates are used.

Per mile

$4.99 when the distance towed is 25 miles or less. $4.16 per mile when the distance towed is over 25 miles.

Hourly instead

$99.75 per hour, or $24.94 per 15 minutes, for a passenger vehicle in that weight class. Distance and hourly are alternatives. The order allows a minimum equal to one and a half hours when hourly rates are used instead of distance rates.

Heavier vehicles and combinations use other lines on the same chart. The chart also sets outdoor storage for a motorcycle, automobile, or light truck up to 20 feet in length at $23.94 for each 24-hour period or portion of one. Storage begins when the vehicle is brought onto the storage facility, and a vehicle kept less than 24 hours is not charged more than one day. The order sets the after-hours release rate at $19.95 per quarter hour, and a private-property drop fee of not more than $99.75 for a vehicle under 10,000 pounds GVWR when other wrecker or towing fees are not charged.

Distance, hourly (excluding recovery), and hookup rates may be adjusted weekly by a fuel surcharge. The order bases that surcharge on U.S. Department of Energy weekly retail on-highway diesel prices for the Midwest region, with $2.00 a gallon as the base. The dollar amounts above are the published chart rates before that weekly adjustment. Read the chart for the week you are billed. Recovery, standby time, and other items the order allows can be separate, and the time and reason have to be written on the invoice.

A tow you requested is a private price. Compare it on towing cost in Oklahoma. A lot tow is a different call from a new hookup: see private-property tows. If the vehicle is already in a lot, do not order a second tow. Start with the agency or the lot that has it.

Your rights under 47 O.S. § 953.1

The quotations below are from the Oklahoma State Courts Network text of 47 O.S. § 953.1, “Maximum Fees and Charges for Wrecker or Towing Services.” The historical note on that page shows the last amendment as Laws 2011, HB 1743, c. 355, § 6, effective November 1, 2011. This is general information, not legal advice.

The rates established by the Corporation Commission shall determine the nonconsensual tow maximum fees and charges for wrecker or towing services performed in this state, including incorporated and unincorporated areas, by a wrecker or towing service licensed by the Department of Public Safety when that service appears on the rotation log of the Department or on the rotation log of any municipality, county or other political subdivision of this state, and the services performed are at the request or at the direction of any officer of the Department or of a municipality, county, or political subdivision. No wrecker or towing service in the performance of transporting or storing vehicles or other property towed as a result of a nonconsensual tow shall charge any fee which exceeds the maximum rates established by the Commission.

That is subsection A. It covers a licensed wrecker that is on the rotation log of DPS or of a city, county, or other political subdivision, when an officer of DPS or of that city or county requested or directed the tow. In that case the statute says the fee cannot exceed the Commission’s maximum rates.

Each performance of a wrecker or towing service shall be recorded by the operator on a bill or invoice as prescribed by rules of the Department and by order of the Commission.

This section shall not be construed to require an operator to charge a fee for the performance of any wrecker or towing services.

An operator shall release the vehicle from storage upon authorization from the owner, agent or lienholder of the vehicle or, in the case of a total loss, the insurer accepting liability for paying the claim for the vehicle or purchasing the vehicle where the vehicle is to be moved to an insurance pool yard for sale.

Those sentences are subsections B.1, B.3, and the release sentence in B.4. You should get an invoice. The statute does not force the wrecker to charge a fee, which is why a company may charge less than the maximum. And once the owner, agent, or lienholder authorizes release — or, in the total-loss case the statute describes, the insurer — the operator shall release the vehicle from storage.

The rates in subsections D through G of this section shall be applicable until superseded by rates established by the Commission.

An operator shall be required to provide reasonable documentation to substantiate all lawful fees charged the owner, lienholder, agent or insurer paying the claim for the towed vehicle.

The first sentence is subsection C. The second is the opening sentence of subsection H. Subsections D through G still print an older statutory rate schedule. Subsection C says those rates last only until the Commission sets rates. Order 741981 says: “Any provisions of Section 953.1 of Title 47 that are contradictory to those of this Order are superseded.” Use the June 1, 2024 chart, not the dollar figures printed in subsections D through G, for a current rotation or other nonconsensual tow. Ask for the documents behind any third-party fee on the invoice.

The Commission’s questions and answers also quote its rule that a wrecker on an official rotation log must display the current maximum rate chart where a person pays to release a vehicle, large enough to read.

What this roster will not tell you

Confirm when you call. The Oklahoma City cards do not say which shops answer at a given hour, how soon a truck can arrive, or which companies run a heavy truck. This page does not add those claims. It also does not rank shops or reprint reviews.