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Towed while driving for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash or Instacart?

When the car you drive or deliver with is towed, each day it is held is a day of storage charges and a day off the road. This page gathers what each city tool already shows about finding the car, deadlines and fees, each with its official citation and the date it was checked.

Who is the tow dispute between?

A tow dispute is between the vehicle's owner and the tow company, the storage lot, and the property owner or public agency that ordered the tow. The app you drive or deliver for (Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart or another) is not a party to it. A hearing request, complaint or letter about the tow goes to the court, agency, tow company or property owner named in each city's rules.

Storage charges add up while the car is held

Storage is charged for the time the car stays at the lot. These posted maximums come from the city tools' fee tables; each says whether it is per day or per 12 hours.

For other cities, the fee rules are on each city's fees or questions page (list below).

Finding the car

Each city tool starts with a "Find your car" card: the official towed-vehicle lookup, phone numbers and storage lots, each with its source and the date it was checked. The links for each city are below.

Towing rules and official find-my-car links by state

Hearing deadlines

Deadlines to ask for a hearing differ by state and city, and some are counted in days from the tow or from a notice. Each city's hearing deadline is linked below with its citation.

Fee caps

Where a city or state sets maximum tow and storage charges, they are on that city's fees page or questions page, with their citations (list below).

Records that exist after a tow

Where each company says its earnings records are (from its own page, checked October 12, 2026):

City tools

Each city tool asks what happened, lists the towing rules that apply there with their citations, and works out the deadlines.

California

Colorado

Illinois

Texas

Washington

Wisconsin