Towing and roadside assistance

Make your towing listing on Google Maps say where a truck comes out

A driver beside a stopped car decides in the time it takes to read a listing. There are three questions: does a truck come out to where I am, can it lift my kind of vehicle, and will somebody pick up. Your dedicated manager keeps those three answers true on your Business Profile and leaves one thing off it on purpose: how soon the truck arrives, which only your dispatcher can say once the route is known.

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The area a truck reaches, the dispatcher's number, what the truck carries, then the time

Four steps, each closing on one fact from the dispatch desk. The arrival time comes last on purpose: it is the one thing the listing never states, because it depends on everything before it.

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The zone a truck actually reaches

The dispatcher's log shows where trucks went over the last months. The service area is rebuilt from those towns and postal codes, inside Google's limit of twenty areas and about two hours' drive from the base, and the description says where the zone ends and what somebody calling from beyond it will hear.
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The dispatcher who picks up, on a number that is really yours

The phone field holds the line a dispatcher answers: not a driver's mobile, not a number some other company controls. It is test-called at the hours the listing claims, and you confirm who covers the line while the dispatcher is out on a job or already talking to somebody else.
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What the truck can carry

Cars, vans up to the weight your trucks lift, motorcycles where there is a cradle, and vehicles that will not roll because of locked wheels, a gearbox stuck in park or crash damage. You confirm the list and the refusals, and the services and the description are cut to exactly that.
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The arrival time, agreed only once the route is known

The listing says how a time is given, never what it is. The dispatcher hears where the car is and what it is, looks at where the trucks are, and names a time on the call. The description, the posts and the replies all describe that order, and none of them states a wait.

Send the night rota and the truck list

Add the towns a truck reaches. Your manager reads the live listing against those three and says which line to correct first.

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How a stranded driver picks a tow on the map

Nobody compares towing firms at leisure. The search happens beside the car, sometimes in the dark, with the hazard lights ticking and traffic passing a few steps away, and the choice goes to the first entry that answers three questions at a glance.

The first question is whether the truck comes out to where the car is. The reader looks for their town, the motorway they are on or the district they broke down in, and a listing that claims a whole country reads like a switchboard that will pass the job to somebody else.
The second is the vehicle. A van driver checks the weight, a rider checks whether motorcycles are carried at all, and somebody whose automatic will not come out of park, or whose wheels have stopped turning after a knock, needs to see that the truck can lift a car that does not roll.
The call button is the whole transaction. A form, a booking page or a route to the yard is no use to somebody standing next to a car that will not start, and the entry that puts a number in front of everything else is the one that gets the call.
Many callers cannot say where they are. They know which way they were driving, the last exit sign, a filling station they passed, and they look for any hint that the dispatcher knows how to find a car from clues like that.
Help at the roadside without a tow is its own search: a battery that died on a frosty morning, a wheel to swap on the shoulder, a car in a snowbank that needs pulling out. Somebody in that position wants to see those jobs named, not just the word tow.
Reviews are skimmed for two sentences above all others: how long the wait turned out to be, and whether the price agreed on the phone was the price paid. Those two lines decide more than the star average does.
A night caller reads the hours as a statement that somebody is awake right now. An entry showing itself open while the phone rings out loses that caller and usually earns the review that follows.

Where a towing listing stops matching the road

Towing listings rarely decay slowly. They slip through a handful of specific gaps between the operator on paper and the operator on the road, and some of those gaps are opened by other people rather than by neglect.

The service area was drawn once to look big and never redrawn, so the dispatcher spends the night turning down calls from towns no truck has driven to this year.
The number in the phone field is a driver's mobile. When that driver has a car strapped to the bed and both hands on the wheel, the next stranded caller hears it ring out and dials somebody else.
The description still promises a quick arrival or names a number of minutes. Every wait that runs past it turns into a review, and the review quotes your own sentence back at you.
The yard address is on public view as if customers were received there, so the map offers a route to a fenced lot when the reader needed a phone number, and now and then somebody turns up at the gate asking for help.
The fleet changed: a flatbed was sold, a heavier truck arrived, the motorcycle cradle broke. The listing still describes the old fleet, and the calls it brings in are exactly the ones the dispatcher has to refuse.
Look-alike entries appear in this category: a name close to yours, a number that is not yours, no address at all. The manager watches for them and records what is seen, without deciding on anybody's behalf who stands behind them.
The phone field or the name is altered by an edit somebody else suggested, and nobody notices until a regular customer mentions they could not get through.

The fields a stranded driver actually reads

Only a handful of fields carry this trade, and each of them rests on something the dispatcher knows and the listing, left alone, does not.

The service area, built from the towns and postal codes a truck really goes out to. Google takes up to twenty areas, does not accept a radius, and expects the whole area to stay within roughly two hours' drive of the base, so a sprawling claim is both unhelpful to the reader and outside the rules.
The address, hidden. A towing firm meets its customers at the roadside, and Google asks a business that does not serve people at its own address to remove it and show only the area. Where the yard also hands towed cars back to their owners, that is a separate question, answered in the questions below.
The phone field, holding the dispatcher's line. Google asks for a number under the business's direct control and prefers a local one to a central helpline. The practical test is simpler still: whoever answers it has to be able to send a truck.
Services split into two groups a caller can tell apart at a glance: carrying the vehicle away, and help on the spot, such as starting a dead battery, fitting the spare, bringing fuel or winching a car out of a ditch. Only jobs the dispatcher confirms go in.
What the fleet carries, in plain words in the services and the description: cars, vans up to the weight your trucks lift, motorcycles where there is a cradle for them, and vehicles that cannot roll. What you do not carry is named just as plainly beside it.
Hours that describe when the dispatcher is reachable, not when the yard gate is unlocked. The two differ in almost every towing firm, and the first is the one a caller is reading.
Categories with towing as the primary one and roadside help beside it where your country's list offers that, kept apart from the repair shop or the parts counter that may share the same yard.

A month that starts at the dispatch desk

Each month starts at the dispatch desk, not at the listing: the log of where trucks went, what actually stands in the yard, and the number the dispatcher answers. The listing is then corrected to match, and every change is logged with its date.

The service area is read against the dispatcher's own log of where trucks went last month. A town nobody drove to is proposed for removal, and a town that keeps calling and is being served is proposed for adding.
The published number is dialed from an outside phone at an ordinary hour and, with your agreement, at a late one. The result goes into the log: who answered, or that nobody did.
The fleet list is checked against what is actually standing in the yard. A truck off the road means a short post and a temporary change to the services, and both come down the week it is back.
Every field is compared with the record of agreed values. Anything that moved is shown to you beside the value it replaced and restored only after you say so.
The map is searched around the base and along the roads you cover for entries with a name close to yours or your name with a different number. What turns up is captured and dated, and any report to Google waits for your decision.
Review replies are drafted in the voice you chose, with no road, no hour and no car in them, and anything about damage during loading goes to you before a word is published.
At the end of the month there is a written record: the fields changed, what Google accepted, what came back rejected, and what still waits on a fact from the dispatch desk.

Practices for a listing that is read from the roadside

Six habits for a profile that sends calls to a dispatcher, each with the Google article behind it.

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Keep slogans and hours out of the name line

Google's name rule asks for the name on the cab doors, the receipts and the website, and bars marketing taglines and hours information from it. In towing it is tempting to add words about speed, price and night cover. Night cover belongs in the hours field, drawn from the rota, and the name stays what the truck door says.

Google's help on this: Guidelines for representing your business on Google
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Check that the area is not still a circle

A listing set up years ago may still hold an area saved as a circle around the base. Google no longer takes a radius, and an area saved that way cannot be edited: it has to be entered again by city or postal code. The manager opens the area on every check and rebuilds any circle from the dispatcher's log.

Google's help on this: Manage your service areas for service-area & hybrid businesses
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Put the holiday and storm rota into special hours

When the rota changes for a public holiday or a bad-weather week, special hours carry the change while the regular hours stay as they are. They appear only if the profile uses main hours at all, and Google advises confirming the hours for official holidays whether or not they differ. A longer closure is marked temporarily closed instead.

Google's help on this: How to set Special hours
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Name the job in the services, never the price or the number

Roadside jobs go into the services editor as separate lines: flatbed transport, a jump start, a spare wheel, winching out of a ditch. A custom service name that includes a price, a number to ring or somebody's personal data can be rejected automatically, so the dispatcher's number stays in the phone field and the price stays with the dispatcher.

Google's help on this: Manage your services on your Business Profile
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Keep the appeal folder ready before anything is suspended

A folder with the business registration, a business license, a tax certificate or a utility bill, each showing the same name and address as the profile, is what Google's appeal lists as evidence. An appeal can be submitted only once, so the files are ready beforehand. While an appeal is pending, no second profile is created for the same business.

Google's help on this: Fix suspended or disabled profiles
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Choose a cover photo that shows the truck with the name readable

Google wants photos that show reality, and it may swap a weak cover photo for one that users submitted. A flatbed in the yard with the company name legible on the cab does both jobs: the stranded driver sees what will arrive, and the cover stays yours.

Google's help on this: Manage your Business Profile photos & videos - Computer

Reviews about the wait and about the price given on the phone

Almost every review in this trade is about one of two things: how long somebody stood by the road, and whether the figure the dispatcher gave was the figure they paid. Your manager drafts replies in your voice, and the facts of any single job stay with you.

A review about a long wait is answered with how arrival times are given here: the dispatcher names one once the location and the route are known, and rings back if something on the road changes it. The reply never argues about minutes.
A review saying the price rose at the scene is answered with what the dispatcher asks before quoting and what can change the figure on arrival, such as a winch, a car off the tarmac or a vehicle heavier than described. The same sentences go into the description, so the next caller hears them first.
A reply never confirms that a job took place, where the car stood, or when. Somebody's breakdown on a named road at a named hour belongs to them, and a reply that confirms it publishes their day for them.
A review claiming the car was damaged while it was winched up or strapped down is on your desk the same day. What appears in public is short: an invitation to continue by phone, with no account of what happened on the shoulder.
Some reviews describe a truck you never sent, because the caller reached another firm. The manager checks the date against your own log and replies calmly that the job was not yours, without accusing the reviewer or naming anybody.
Complaints about waiting are gathered in the monthly report by day of the week and by hour. When they cluster on the same nights, that is a question about the rota, and the review thread is the last place it gets answered.

Where a human has to step in

No reply states a waiting time, a distance or a price for a particular job. All three belong to the dispatcher's call, not to a public thread.
No reply confirms a job, a location or a time, not even to thank a customer. The thanks can be written without any of them.

Complaints about the wait, answered without arguing minutes

The manager drafts replies that explain how the dispatcher gives a time and promise none. Damage claims reach you first, and nothing is published without your approval.

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What a caller beside the car needs to read first

The useful posts here answer in advance what a caller would otherwise have to ask while standing on the shoulder with a phone at half charge.

What to have ready before calling: the direction of travel, the last exit or kilometer post, the make and what the car is doing, whether the keys are there and whether the wheels turn. Written once, in the order your dispatcher asks.
How to send a location from a phone, for the caller who cannot name the road. One short post, repeated in the description, spares the dispatcher the hardest part of most calls.
The fleet itself: the flatbed, the wheel lift, the motorcycle cradle, the winch. Photographed in the yard with your name on the cab and no customer's car anywhere in the frame.
Seasonal help as the weather brings it: dead batteries in the first frosts, cars stuck in snow, engines overheating in summer jams. Each post comes down when the dispatcher stops seeing those calls.
Long-distance and cross-border transport, where you do it, as a separate offer with its own conditions, so nobody mistakes it for the area a truck reaches for a breakdown tonight.
Not published: a photograph of a crashed car, a plate, a scene a driver would recognize as their own, or any sentence about how soon a truck gets anywhere.

One dispatch desk, or a second base in another city

One location

A single base usually means a single listing with no public address, a service area drawn from where the trucks really go, and one dispatcher's line. Your manager keeps those three in step with the log and the fleet, and every change starts from something the dispatch desk confirmed.

A network

Google allows a service-area business one listing for the whole area it serves, so extra trucks or extra drivers are not a reason for extra listings, and a listing per driver is a duplicate waiting to be merged. A second base in another city, with its own staff and its own dispatch, can be a location in its own right, with its own area, number and reviews. Each serviced location is billed separately, and for several locations the terms are agreed individually.

What only the dispatch desk can decide

What the manager does

Keeps the service area inside the towns the log shows trucks actually reached, and proposes changes whenever the fleet or the rota changes.
Checks that the published number reaches somebody able to send a truck, and records every test call with its hour.
Keeps each mention of an arrival time off the listing and out of the replies, and writes the wording that explains how a time is given instead.
Watches the fields and the surrounding map for suggested edits and look-alike entries, and brings you what changed rather than acting on it alone.

What you confirm

The fleet as it stands this month: which trucks, what each one lifts, what travels only on a flatbed, and what the firm never carries.
The rota: the hours the dispatcher answers, who covers the nights, and where a call goes when nobody does.
How a price is given on the phone and what can change it at the scene, in words the firm is willing to see published.

A first month: area, number, fleet, then the wording about time

an example of the process, not a client result

Week 1

Access and the record. The manager works from your own account and writes down every field as it stands today: area, number, name, category, hours, services. Then the dispatcher's log goes beside it, and the gap between where the listing says trucks go and where they actually went is measured town by town.
Week 2

The area and the address. The service area is rebuilt from the towns and postal codes the log supports, the yard address comes off public view unless the yard genuinely receives people, and the description says where the area ends and what a caller from beyond it is told.
Week 3

The number and the fleet. The published number is test-called at different hours, the dispatcher's line goes into the field, and the services are rewritten around what the trucks carry and what help is given on the spot, with the vehicles you refuse named as well.
Week 4

The replies and the wording about time. Every sentence promising an arrival comes off, the order in which a time is given goes in, and replies are drafted without places or hours. The month's report lists the area before and after, each test call with its hour, the fleet lines that changed and any look-alike entries captured.

An example of the order the work tends to take with a dispatch desk, not a result anybody was promised. A number that rings a driver who left, or somebody who is not you, is corrected first and everything else waits behind it.

What to check with the dispatcher this week

Open the service area and read each town aloud to the dispatcher. Strike any place no truck has driven to this season.
Ring the number on your listing from a phone that is not yours, at an hour when the dispatcher is usually out on a job, and note who answers.
Search for your own trade near your yard and look for entries with a name close to yours, or your name with a different number. Take a screenshot of anything new.
Read your description for any promise about how soon a truck arrives, including words like fast or quick. Each of them is a review waiting to be written.
Check that the listing names the vehicles you carry and the ones you do not: vans by weight, motorcycles, cars that cannot roll.
Set the hours field beside the rota pinned in the dispatch room and compare them night by night. Where the listing claims a night nobody answers, the listing is the part that changes.

Read the towns aloud, or send us the listing

Go through these checks with your dispatcher. Or let the manager run them, from look-alike entries to the promise in your description, and report what only the desk can settle.

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What a towing listing never claims

No arrival time appears on the listing, in a post or in a reply. The dispatcher gives it on the call once the route is known.
Night cover is published only for the nights somebody is genuinely on the phone, and the description says where a call goes on the others. The hours never claim more than the rota does.
Where a road operator or the police decide who tows from a particular stretch of road, the listing does not claim that stretch. Which roads that applies to is yours to confirm.
What a roadside operator has to hold, such as a license or insurance, differs by country and sometimes by road. The listing says nothing about it unless you supply the wording and the document behind it, and we do not look up local rules on your behalf.

Google's own help for this kind of business

Each link opens an article of Google Business Profile Help, in this page's language where Google offers one. The line under it says why it matters here.

Guidelines for representing your business on Google
It holds the rule on the name on the cab, on a phone number the firm controls and on a service-area business that keeps its address hidden.
Manage your service areas for service-area & hybrid businesses
It is where the area is edited by town and postal code, with the limits Google sets on the number of areas and the distance from the base.
Manage your business address
It shows how to turn the address off when the yard receives nobody, and how to fix a pin that sends a car to the wrong gate.
Edit your business hours
A night rota is entered here, including breaks, the way the dispatcher actually works it.
How to set Special hours
A holiday or a storm week changes the rota, and special hours carry that change without rewriting the regular ones.
Business eligibility and ownership guidelines
It says who is eligible for a profile, including that lead generation companies are not, so a firm with its own trucks knows where it stands.
Manage your services on your Business Profile
Each roadside job gets its own line, and the article names what those line titles may not carry.

What is the same for every industry

The industry page above is about what changes from one business to the next. The part below is the same for a restaurant and a dental practice alike: the packages, the split of duties and the rules Google sets. It applies to the Google Business Profile, the listing many still call Google My Business.

How the packages work here

Each location we service is on one of three packages. The package sets how many posts and review replies a month are included, how the profile details are updated, and whether the monthly optimization, the catalog of goods and services and the advertising are included. Prices are on the pricing page. See the prices Everything the team handles

Start

Profile upkeep

€75 per Google location per month · without VAT

4 posts or offers a month
Up to 50 review replies a month
3 requests to update the profile details
Photo updates
Review QR code
Basic monthly report
Manager's first reply: up to 2 business days

Business

Profile development

€149 per Google location per month · without VAT

24 posts or offers a month
Up to 200 review replies a month
Regular updates to the profile details
Monthly optimization and SEO of the profile
Goods and services added gradually
Content plan and competitor analysis
Extended monthly report
Quarterly consultation
Manager's first reply: up to 1 business day

Pro

Profile development and advertising

€249 per Google location per month · without VAT

Everything in Business
24 posts or offers and up to 200 review replies a month
Initial setup and launch of Google Ads
Ad copy and images prepared
Advertising in one language
Campaigns run and optimized every month
Extended report with the advertising work and plan
Manager's first reply: up to 1 business day

The manager proposes, you approve

The manager drafts every change, post and reply from your materials. Nothing is published, restored or billed without your yes; a flagged edit or a package switch waits for you.

Who does what, in every industry

What the manager does

Checks the profile regularly and keeps a written record of the agreed data.
Prepares the updates to the profile details, the posts and the offers from your materials and the agreed plan.
Replies to reviews within the monthly limit, in the tone you set once at the start, and hands anything sensitive back to you the same day.
Writes the monthly report and puts recommendations into the dashboard chat instead of acting on them alone.

What you confirm

The facts only you know: current hours, prices, services, photos, who is on the team this month.
The tone of replies, set once at the start, and the wording of anything escalated to you.
The yes before a value someone else changed is restored and before a location moves between packages; nothing is charged without it.

What works the same way in every industry

Ownership and access: the profile stays the property of the business. The manager works from the business's own account with manager rights, and the first step of the first month is confirming who owns the profile and who else still has access.
Suspension: if Google suspends a profile, the manager looks for the likely cause, corrects the data to match the paperwork the business holds and files the request to reinstate. This is part of every package. Timing and the decision stay with Google.
Duplicates: a second profile at the same address, or an old one left after a move, is reported to Google with the evidence. What stays and what merges is agreed with you before anything is sent.
Measuring: when you agree to it, the website link in the profile gets tagging, so visits that start on the profile show up separately in your analytics. Calls and direction requests are counted in Google's own profile statistics, and only you know which of them became a customer.
Recurring customer questions: the answers are written into the profile's own fields and updates, worded as you confirmed. Google turned off the questions and answers API for Business Profiles on 3 November 2025 while it reworks the feature, so this part of the work does not rely on that section.

Google's rules that apply to every profile

Local ranking is Google's own weighing of relevance, distance and prominence. No service can buy a position or promise a place in the results.
Verification, eligibility and which categories exist are Google's rules and differ by country.
Photos and reviews left by other people cannot be deleted by us. Where they break Google's rules they can be reported, and Google decides.
Booking, ordering or delivery features are connected only when you already run them with a provider Google supports in your country.
The number of posts and review replies per month is fixed by the package, and what is unused in a month does not carry over. On Start the profile details are updated on agreed requests, on Business and Pro regularly, as the business changes.

Reviews: the same policy everywhere

We do not ask only happy customers for reviews, do not offer anything in exchange for one and do not remove reviews: Google takes down a review that breaks its rules, and the author can delete their own.
We do not promise a rating, a position in the results or more customers. We promise the agreed process, every month.

Sources for Google's rules

We last checked the Google rules on this page against Google's Help pages in September 2026.

What the team handles for this industry

Profile data Your Google Maps listing details are right, and we keep them that way Foreign edits Someone changed your Google Maps profile. Your manager checks it against the details you agreed. Reviews Reviews answered by a person who knows your business

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The rest of the local SEO work

This page is about the profile: what a manager keeps correct on the map every month. Local search also depends on the website itself, on citations and on the pages a customer lands on after the map. Those we handle separately, and the express review points to which of them is actually holding you back.

Service area, vehicles and hours set up from your rota

A manager sets up your service area, vehicle list and hours from the rota, then updates them when the fleet changes. You confirm the trucks, the rota and how a price is given by phone.

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Frequently asked questions

How do we avoid promising an arrival time before the route is clear? +

By publishing the order instead of a number. The description says that the dispatcher asks where the car is and what it is, checks where the trucks are, and gives a time on the call; the posts and the replies say the same. Anything already on the listing that names minutes, or calls the service fast, comes off. A caller who knows how a time will be given tends to judge the wait against that, rather than against a figure the road never kept.

How do we show the vehicle types we carry without claiming more than our trucks can do? +

We write the list from what you confirm, truck by truck: what each one lifts, whether motorcycles go on a cradle, which vehicles need the flatbed because they cannot be pulled on their own wheels. The refusals are named in the same place. Nothing is added because a competitor lists it, and when a truck leaves the fleet its line comes off in the same month of work.

Owners come to our yard to collect cars we towed. Should the address be shown after all? +

It depends on whether the yard genuinely receives people: permanent signage and somebody there during the hours you publish. If so, Google treats you as a hybrid business, which can show the address with the yard's hours and still keep a service area. If not, the address stays hidden and the description explains how an owner arranges collection. We check it against the rules with you before anything changes.

Can the listing say we tow day and night? +

Only for the hours somebody genuinely answers. The hours field is read as a statement about right now, so it follows the rota rather than an ambition. If nights are covered on some days and not others, the hours say so, and the description tells a caller where the call goes on the uncovered nights.

We also move cars between cities and abroad. Does that make our service area bigger? +

No. The service area describes where a truck comes out to collect a vehicle, and Google expects it to stay within roughly two hours' drive of the base. Long-distance and cross-border transport goes in as a service of its own, with its own conditions, so a stranded driver is not misled about who can reach them tonight.

Another listing near us uses almost our name and a different number. What can be done? +

It is documented first: the name, the number, the photos, the reviews and the date it was noticed. The manager checks the reviews on both sides against your log, and with your agreement sends Google a report with what was found. Nobody is accused in public, and whether that listing changes or stays is Google's decision, on Google's timing.

People drop their location into the listing's chat and assume a truck is coming. Should we keep the chat? +

Only if somebody reads it while calls are taken. It shows up as a WhatsApp link or a text number among the contact details, and Google offers it in select regions only. With chat on, one agreed first reply asks the person to ring the dispatcher and confirms nothing about a truck. A location sitting in a chat nobody reads does more harm than having no chat.

A customer says the car was scratched while it was being loaded. What happens on the listing? +

The review lands with you that day, ahead of everything else. The public reply is short: it invites the customer to talk to you directly and says nothing about what happened, the car or the place. The claim itself is handled by the firm, and by its insurer where that applies, well away from the listing.

A call center with no trucks of its own lists towing for our town and passes the jobs on. Can we do anything? +

Google's eligibility guidelines list lead generation agents and companies as not eligible, and a service-area business gets one profile for the area it serves. The manager documents what the other listing shows, the name, the number and the address if there is one, and with your agreement reports it to Google. Nothing is said about it in public, and whether it changes is Google's decision. Your own listing is kept to what your trucks reach.

A neighboring industry, and what is different there

Auto repair shops Which makes and jobs the bays really take, how an appointment is made, the gate a car can drive through, and the scope agreed once the car is on the lift, kept correct every month. Tire shops Today's puncture, the seasonal changeover booked ahead, the wheels your bay takes, and storage for the second set, kept current on the map.

Calls your dispatcher can take, not calls it has to turn away

Send us the link to your listing. Within one business day the dedicated manager writes back with the first correction worth making, the facts the dispatch desk has to confirm, and a package for each location serviced.

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We work on Business Profiles under Google's rules for agencies. What to expect from an agency, Google explains in Tips for working with third parties to manage your Business Profile.