Tow truck driver jobs in Queens, NY — paid weekly, our trucks

What the job actually is

Real description, not the recruiter version. You drive a tow truck — flatbed or wheel-lift depending on the position — out of our 118-09 83rd Avenue yard in Kew Gardens. Calls come from the dispatcher. You pick up the ticket on your tablet, drive to the address, verify the customer's identity and authorization, photograph the vehicle, rig it correctly for the vehicle type, tow it to the destination the customer specified, photograph it at drop, get the signature, collect payment if applicable, log the job, head back or to the next call.

Standard call types: stranded sedan in a residential block, AWD on a flatbed to a body shop, work van breakdown on a commercial avenue, post-accident collision pickup with insurance paperwork, jump-start or fuel-delivery roadside. Volume varies by time of day and weather. Snow days are relentless. 2 AM Tuesdays are quiet. Friday nights and rainy mornings spike.

What it's not: highway recovery, parkway tows, NYPD rotation non-consent work, predatory private-property pickups. We don't do any of that and we never will. If you've worked the non-consent side and want out, this is the place.

Pay and structure

We pay W-2, not 1099. That means you're an actual employee with workers' comp coverage, employer-side payroll taxes paid, and a real pay stub at the end of each week. We don't run the gig-economy contractor model where the driver eats every cost and the company keeps the upside.

Pay structure varies by position — base hourly plus performance bonuses on call volume and customer feedback. Specific numbers we discuss after we review your application (we don't post comp publicly because it's not the kind of information that's useful in a job ad). What we'll tell you up front: we pay above the median for what tow drivers in this market actually take home, and we pay weekly, every Friday.

Other things included:

• Trucks are ours — you don't bring your own vehicle
• Fuel is on the company card
• Tools, jump packs, lockout kits, all supplied
• Workers' comp coverage
• Real schedule — we don't double-book or no-show drivers
• Paid orientation and equipment training before solo runs

What we look for

Three things matter:

1. Clean license, clean record. We do standard background checks. DUI in the last 7 years, recent moving violations, or commercial driving violations are hard stops.
2. Knows the territory. If you've driven in Queens and Nassau for a few years and you know cross-streets by feel, you'll outperform someone with a longer resume from elsewhere. Territory knowledge compounds on every call.
3. Doesn't cut corners. The consent-only workflow is non-negotiable. Pre-load photos every job. Written authorization every job. Drop photos every job. If that sounds like too much paperwork, we're not the right fit. If it sounds like the basic standard the industry should already be holding, we agree.