CR Towing and Recovery

CR Towing and Recovery is a towing service in Joliet, IL. The company handles local towing around the clock, every day of the year, along with light, medium, and heavy duty towing, flatbed and wrecker service, truck and trailer work, winching, off road recovery, motorcycle towing, police towing, underwater recovery, and construction equipment transportation. It also provides nationwide vehicle pick up and delivery, vehicle relocation, auto repair, and used car sales through Supreme Auto Sales. The company holds a rating of 4.30 from customer reviews.

The business traces its roots to Supreme Radiator and Body Company, founded in 1927 by brothers-in-law Morris Saper and Morris Weiner, and was among the first towing operations in Joliet. Its wreckers were a familiar sight at accident scenes in the area, and the company served the Joliet Police Department, the Will County Sheriff, and the Illinois State Police. In the mid 1950s, Morris Saper's son-in-law and daughter, Sydney and Beatrice Scholar, took over, and the Scholar family continued the towing and auto repair operation for the next four decades. In the early 1990s, Roger D'Orazio Jr., then owner of Collision Revision Inc, bought the company, expanded towing across northern Illinois and northwest Indiana, and introduced a finished-when-promised guarantee. The company describes itself as family owned and operated, with a staff whose experience totals more than 100 years, and a fleet that includes flatbed tow trucks and forty foot trailers.

CR Towing and Recovery is located on East Washington Street in Joliet, about half a mile from T. E. Culbertson Elementary School, Ridgewood Park, and Saint Mary Magdalene School, roughly the same distance from the Ingalls Park neighborhood, and a short drive from Cass Street and the East Joliet Fire Protection District Station 53.

The company's 4.30 rating reflects the customers who have reviewed its work.

For a Joliet towing company that has been answering calls since the 1920s, that long history and the trust of local drivers remain its strongest asset.