Towing in Encino, TX.

The coastal and outer corridor splits two ways. Rockport and Fulton mean boat-trailer towing, RV traffic, and storm-recovery work. The US-77 and US-281 stretch toward Kingsville, Falfurrias, and Beeville means long-distance rural breakdowns far from any tow yard. We give a real ETA on the phone and stage from the nearest hub.

Encino is 18 miles south of Falfurrias on US-281, a census-designated place with 109 residents and no commercial services. The name goes back to an 1832 Mexican land grant, La Encantada y Encina del Pozo, meaning the enchanted place and live oak in a hole, named for an oak tree where cattle rested in a natural depression. The railroad came through in 1904, the post office opened in 1914, and the population has dropped every decade since. Today Encino is a ranch-country dot on a major highway. The southbound Encino CMV Station is the weigh station and the most commercially significant thing in town. It sits on US-281 South and checks commercial motor vehicles heading toward the Valley. A truck that fails inspection here gets sidelined in one of the most remote stretches of US-281 in Texas. Heading north, the nearest heavy-duty tow or repair is Falfurrias, then Alice, then Corpus Christi. Heading south, it's Mission or McAllen, nearly 50 miles of brush country before real commercial services appear. A rig pulled out of service at this weigh station needs someone who can make the drive. The Falfurrias checkpoint is about 5 miles north of Encino, which puts the stretch between the checkpoint and the weigh station among the highest-enforcement segments on all of US-281. Trucks deal with the checkpoint northbound and the weigh station southbound. When something breaks down in that corridor, there's no local answer. La mayoría de los residentes en Encino y a lo largo del US-281 en este tramo son hispanos. Si necesita una grúa y prefiere hablar en español, llámenos directamente al (858) 925-5546.