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Just text one of the keywords below to HOLMES (465637) and we'll remind you to move your car. That's it!

TOW CAMPUS - for OSU campus alerts

TOW HARRISON - for Harrison West alerts

TOW ITALIAN - for Italian Village alerts

TOW NEIL - for Neil Ave alerts

TOW GERMAN - for German Village alerts

TOW EASTGATE - for Eastgate Garden alerts

TOW BUSINESS - for Central Business District alerts

Alerts will be sent the day before and the morning of street-sweeping in each area.

Standard message charges apply


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  • Alltel
  • AT&T
  • Cellular One
  • Sprint
  • Nextel
  • Boost
  • T-Mobile
  • U.S. Cellular
  • Verizon Wireless

AntiTow is a text message alert system that sends you reminders to move your car during street sweeping season (Apr-Oct).

Think about it:

  • $120 towing fee
  • $20/day storage fee
  • Several hours of time and effort to get your car out of the impound lot
  • or
  • 10 seconds to subscribe to alerts?

Don’t Get Towed. Sign Up 4 Alerts!

Welcome to the Club

Hi, I’m Vitaliy. Here are some things I hate, in no particular order:

  • I hate street sweeping.
  • I hate tow trucks.
  • I hate remembering to move my car.
  • I hate seeing my car getting hitched by a tow truck.
  • I hate asking a friend to drive me to the ATM.
  • I hate taking out $140 from my checking account.
  • I hate asking my friend to drive me to the tow lot.
  • I hate dealing with dirty, unhappy tow lot attendants.
  • I hate handing $140 cash to a dirty, unhappy tow lot attendant.
  • I hate driving away from a tow lot knowing that I could have just moved my car.

These are the reasons we created AntiTow. I love AntiTow.

More Anti Info

You can check out the street sweeping map to see if you ever park in a sweeping zone or the street sweeping calender to check when messages will be going out.

Please keep in mind that in order for us to be able to provide you with this service, we have to pay for it somehow. We are advertiser supported, so you might see an ad or two at the bottom of an alert. You will only receive 4-6 messages a month per subscription area and we promise not to spam you.

We just got tired of setting our own reminders and alerts and decided to set up a simple solution to this problem.

While we don’t charge anything for this service, standard messaging charges apply.

You might also be interested in the official City of Columbus reference and street-sweeping schedule.

Finally, if you’re not in Columbus, contact us to bring street-sweeping alerts to your area.

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