Heavy Duty Towing in Powell, TN

Heavy Duty Towing in Powell is about a place where trucks leave the city and the road changes. Powell is a census-designated place in Knox County with 13,802 people in 2020. It lies in the Beaver Creek Valley between Copper Ridge and Beaver Ridge at about 1,060 feet, on 8.54 square miles. Call (865) 339-3202 and tell the dispatcher the nearest road: I-75, Emory Road or Clinton Highway.

Exit 112 and the lane drop

I-75 exit 112 is SR 131 (Emory Road) to Powell. At that exit the interstate narrows from six lanes to four. South of it, exit 110 is Callahan Drive and exit 108 is Merchants Drive. North of Powell the article notes a crooked and hazardous segment with several S-curves. A lane drop plus a curve is where trucks get squeezed, and where a stalled rig is hard to see in time.

Clinton Highway

Clinton Highway is US 25W, which Wikipedia places in the North Knoxville neighborhood heading out to Powell. It runs a short stretch along with SR 131 here before crossing into Anderson County. Emory Road is SR 131. The community was once called Powell Station for a train stop that no longer operates.

Businesses that put trucks on the road

Weigel's convenience stores started in Powell and are still headquartered there. Weigel's began in 1931 with four cows on a 600-acre farm, and its subsidiary Broadacre Dairy sends milk from its Powell farm to stores within 24 hours. DeRoyal Industries, a medical products maker with over 20,000 products, is headquartered in Powell and is the largest employer. A former Levi's plant that closed in 2002 is now Crown College.

Deliveries to and from sites like these mean tankers, box trucks and straight trucks along Emory Road and Clinton Highway. A refrigerated box truck with a failed unit, or a tanker on a side road, needs the right wrecker, and the dispatcher will ask for the weight and whether the cargo is perishable.

The Sharp's Gap side

South of Powell, I-75 runs into the Sharp's Gap interchange, a three-level junction with US 25W, I-640 and the north end of I-275. The first Weigel's store opened on December 9, 1958 on Sanderson Road in Knoxville, and the company later opened a 12,000-square-foot bakery in 2014. DeRoyal was founded in 1973 and had about 1,900 employees in 2017. Together they put a steady flow of delivery and supply trucks onto Clinton Highway and I-75.

What to tell us

• I-75 direction and exit, or Emory Road or Clinton Highway and the cross street
• Box truck, straight truck, tanker or tractor-trailer
• Cargo and temperature needs
• If you are in a lane or on the shoulder
• Who pays

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