If Springfield Police order your car towed, it goes to Henry’s Towing Service in Brookline, at 2806 S. Farm Road 115. That yard is the Springfield MO impound lot for police-ordered custody tows under the city’s single-contractor deal. Quick Tow Springfield did not move the car, and you will not pick it up from us.
A police-ordered tow is not a tow you called yourself
You called a truck after a breakdown, you picked the operator. A police-ordered tow is different. An officer decides the car has to leave, and the city’s contractor takes it.
Springfield does not rotate those jobs among local yards. The city runs a single contract with Henry’s Towing Service, LLC, for the term February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026, with a city option to renew up to three one-year terms. The contract’s response requirement on Henry’s is 40 minutes after dispatch. If Henry’s does not respond within 60 minutes, dispatch may call the first company on SPD’s monthly Non-Custody Tow List. That backup is still a police-ordered move. It is not you choosing a shop on Glenstone or Kansas Expressway.
The legal hook is Municipal Code Chapter 106, Section 106-101, tied to RSMo 304.155 and 304.157. Since Ordinance 6913 (passed February 24, 2025, enforcement from March 26, 2025 after a 30-day education period), police may tow for missing, invalid, or expired plates or tabs that are 30 or more days expired. That power is a City of Springfield ordinance power. Missouri state law does not authorize towing solely for expired registration. A citation under the state’s plate rules is not the same thing as an impound. Outside city limits, Ordinance 6913 does not travel with you.
A crash on Glenstone, a stop near the Kansas Expressway diverging diamond, a car left on Chestnut Expressway, or a tow from near the MSU campus all feed the same city process if SPD ordered it. A freight stall on I-44 can too, when city police are the ones who call the truck. A breakdown you report yourself is a different job. For that, the operators we dispatch handle 24/7 emergency towing, and you choose where the car goes.
SPD will not tow from apartment or rental lots at a landlord’s request unless there is a genuine hazard. Landlords are pointed to the private-tow process. That is private property towing, not the city contract lot in Brookline.
If you called us, or you need a truck you chose, that car is not sitting in Brookline under the city contract. If an officer called it, start with the city path below.
Where Springfield police-towed cars are stored under the city contract
Custody tows ordered by the Springfield Police Department go to Henry’s Towing, 2806 S. Farm Road 115, Brookline, MO 65619. Brookline sits west of the city core, not next to SPD Headquarters on E. Chestnut Expressway. Downtown Springfield, the Glenstone corridor, and a Battlefield Road stop all still end at that one contracted yard when SPD is the one who ordered the hook.
There is no second city lot this page can name. Do not drive random yards looking for a Greene County impound. No Greene County lot name, address, or fee could be confirmed for this article, so none is listed. The Brookline lot and the SPD release desks are weekday-gated in different ways. Are tow yards open on weekends in Missouri covers that retrieval-timing question.
Tow fees and storage under this process are the city contract’s rates for police-ordered tows under the current term, not Quick Tow Springfield prices. We do not set them. We do not collect them. You pay Henry’s Towing directly at the Brookline lot.
Under the published city contract, re-verify after January 31, 2026:
- Small vehicle: $90 tow and $30 per day storage
- Large single unit: $175 tow and $50 per day storage
- Tractor-trailer combo: $225
- Winching: $200
- Drop drive shaft: $45
- Yard work: $100 per hour
- Rotator standby: $650 per hour
Missouri sets no statewide dollar cap on tow fees. Local governments may set maximums under RSMo 304.158. Springfield does that through this contract. A search for an impound fee per day in Missouri has no single state number. Daily storage in other yards is a different story. See tow yard storage fees in Missouri for the state rules, including that storage facilities must accept cash and make change.
Personal property inside the vehicle stays with it. The city’s process is that belongings are not released without the vehicle. Missouri law is not one voice on this. RSMo 304.154 requires a towing company to be available at least 10 hours a day, Monday through Friday, so you can view or retrieve items with no extra fee for that access. RSMo 304.155.9, for abandoned vehicles taken from public property, lets a company hold personal property until reasonable charges are paid or arranged, with one floor: medication prescribed by a physician must be released on request, paid or not. Do not assume every item comes out free in every scenario.
There is no punitive 30-day police hold in Missouri. RSMo 304.156’s 30-day clock is when a tow company can obtain title to an unclaimed vehicle, not an SPD lockup.
How to confirm the car is actually in the city process
Do not start at the Brookline gate. Confirm the car is in the city process first, then get paperwork, then pay.
The City of Springfield’s Obtain My Impounded Vehicle page is the official checklist. There is no online lookup tool. Call SPD Headquarters during its listed hours. The number is on that city page, not here. Use that call to check for an investigative hold and to confirm you have the right papers. Headquarters phone hours in the city’s process are Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Bring government photo ID and proof of ownership. Proof can be a title, a bill of sale, a Missouri title application, a notarized POA, lien proof, repo paperwork, or a certificate of origin.
If there is a hold or a vehicle-forfeiture flag, or you want to protest the tow, SPD points you to the right unit. An investigative hold means the lot will not release the car on a normal visit. Save the trip to Brookline until that flag is clear.
A tow from Nixa, Ozark, Republic, or a sheriff’s stop on a county road is not this process. Confirm which agency ordered it before you drive Farm Road 115. I-44 through the Glenstone-to-Kansas Expressway stretch, US-65 toward Branson, and a quiet street off Battlefield can look the same from the shoulder. The agency on scene is what decides the lot. For a broader recovery walkthrough once you know it is a Springfield police tow, use how to find your towed car in Springfield.
MoDOT’s Motorist Assist patrol on the interstates is a courtesy patrol based with the Transportation Management Center of the Ozarks. It does not take cars to a shop or to the city lot. A police-ordered city tow is SPD plus Henry’s, not MoDOT.
If you only needed a jump or a short private move, you would not be in this queue. If the car is already gone and you are not sure who took it, start with SPD, not a random yard.
Getting a release is a separate step from paying storage
A release form and a paid invoice are two stops. Mixing them up is how people wait at a locked gate.
You get the release in person from Springfield Police. Approved locations are SPD Headquarters, 321 E. Chestnut Expressway, lobby Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., or the South District Station, 2620 W. Battlefield Road, lobby Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. If the vehicle is releasable, you sign the Vehicle Release Form. Then you go to the Brookline lot, pay Henry’s, and pick up the car.
SPD does not take the tow money. Henry’s does.
If the tow was for missing, invalid, or expired plates or tabs under the city ordinance, you are responsible for getting the car off the yard legally and safely. Renewing tags is a Missouri Department of Revenue job at Motor Vehicle, not something the lot handles for you.
Do not skip the release and show up at Farm Road 115 with cash. The contracted yard is not the place that clears an investigative hold. Headquarters on Chestnut Expressway and South District on Battlefield are the release desks. Brookline is where storage is paid after that paper is in your hand.
If you reclaim before actual removal in a private-property setting, RSMo 304.158 cuts the charge in half, and SPD policy is more owner-favorable: free before hookup. That is not the police-ordered custody path once the car is already in Brookline.
Abandoned-vehicle clocks under RSMo 304.155 are a separate layer from Springfield’s 48-hour public-right-of-way rule, which uses a sticker plus tire marking. An operable, validly licensed vehicle parked in view of its owner’s own residence is not abandoned under the city rule. None of those clocks is a 30-day police hold.
What this page cannot confirm outside city limits
This page is about Springfield Police custody tows. Nixa, Ozark, Republic, Strafford, Willard, Battlefield, and the Branson corridor on US-65 run different agencies. Christian County and Webster County are not the city contract. A car lifted in Ozark on US-65, or in Republic west of town, does not automatically go to Brookline.
No Greene County impound lot name, address, phone, or fee could be confirmed. None is published here. If a sheriff or another city towed the car, ask that agency. Do not treat the Springfield city contract lot as the default for the whole metro.
Private property tows with proper signage under RSMo 304.157 go to the tower’s own lot, not Henry’s city-contract yard, unless that company happens to be Henry’s on a private job. Signs must be at least 17 by 22 inches, with 1-inch lettering, state removal at the owner’s expense, disclose the maximum towing and storage fee, and list a phone number for the vehicle’s location. That is a different map from an SPD custody tow.
Quick Tow Springfield is a referral service. We match drivers with independent local operators. We own no trucks, run no yard, and hold no towing license. We did not perform the police tow. We cannot release a car from Brookline.
If your car is still on the street and you need a private operator, that is our lane. If it is already in SPD custody, work the city checklist.
When to call us
Call us when you still have a choice of operator: a breakdown, a ditch, or a private-property problem that is not an SPD custody tow. The line takes calls 24 hours a day. Calls are recorded after a notice plays, and we dispatch an independent local operator. Call us at (417) 221-8911.