Towing in Aransas Pass, TX.

The San Patricio ring across the Harbor Bridge is heavy-duty country. Refineries, the LNG buildout, and the Steel Dynamics mill drive constant 18-wheeler and tanker traffic through Portland, Ingleside, Gregory, and Sinton. Heavy wreckers cover rigs and lowboys, plus boat-trailer recovery toward Aransas Pass.

Aransas Pass is where SH-35 from Sinton and Portland meets SH-361 heading to the Port Aransas ferry, and that junction makes it one of the busiest traffic chokepoints on the Texas Coastal Bend. The free state ferry across the Corpus Christi Channel runs 24 hours, 7 days a week, but wait times can exceed an hour on summer and holiday weekends. When the queue backs up, traffic stacks along SH-361 through Aransas Pass and west toward Ingleside. A disabled vehicle anywhere in that queue, or on the narrow bridge structures of the 6-mile causeway through Stedman Island and Harbor Island, has no shoulder to coast onto, recovery requires a wrecker with enough reach to extract the vehicle without blocking oncoming ferry traffic. Conn Brown Harbor is the working waterfront, home to what was once the largest Gulf shrimping fleet in the country, which earned Aransas Pass the title of Shrimp Capital of Texas. The harbor still runs commercial fishing operations alongside recreational fishing, charter boats, and the marine services that keep working vessels afloat. Boat-trailer breakdowns in the Conn Brown parking lot, trucks that can't pull a loaded bay boat up the ramp, and marine-adjacent equipment calls are genuine recurring scenarios here that most inland tow companies aren't equipped to handle. Hurricane Harvey made direct landfall on the San Patricio County coast on August 25, 2017, and Aransas Pass took a direct hit. SH-361 closed during the storm. The shrimping fleet in Conn Brown Harbor suffered serious damage, a 65-foot, 94-ton shrimp boat sank in the harbor and required a month of Coast Guard-supervised salvage to refloat. A 60-foot vessel was blown by wind to the opposite shore. Post-storm, flooded vehicles, vehicles blown off trailers, and watercraft stranded on land were all part of the recovery picture. For any breakdown at the ferry queue, along SH-361, at Conn Brown Harbor, or anywhere in the Aransas Pass corridor, call Quick Tow at (361) 967-8088.