MN Tow Buddy
Fast, sourced answers when your car gets towed in Minnesota: what the lot can charge, what the rules are, and how to get your belongings back.
This site is part of the Buddy Network, a collection of Minnesota consumer tools built by attorney Dan Swenson.
I am Dan Swenson, a data nerd who is also a Minnesota workers' compensation attorney and a city council member. I build these sites as a hobby to make public records, government rules, and license registries easy to find and use. The tools are free. The network pays for itself through disclosed referral links and a few optional paid guides.
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MN Tow Buddy is an independent educational resource. It is not a law firm, not a towing company, and not affiliated with any city, impound lot, or the State of Minnesota. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Fee figures come from each city's own published fee schedules and ordinances, shown with the source and its date. Cities change fees, lots add charges the city does not publish, and the lot calculates your final balance. Where a city publishes nothing, this site says so instead of guessing.
If you ask Dan to look at a crash tow, your request goes to Dan Swenson at Robert Wilson & Associates. That is the only thing this site ever does with a crash inquiry: it is never sold, shared, or treated as a marketing lead. Attorney advertising. Privacy policy.