For a breakdown on US-20 from Manchester to the Julien Dubuque Bridge, call Dubuque Roadside at (563) 239-6326, 24/7; tows start from $115. Give us the exit number or the junction and your direction.
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Tell us the road, the nearest cross street or exit, and which way you were driving.
These are base prices. The final price can go up with availability, time of day or night, distance, weather, vehicle type and similar factors. You get the final price before anyone is sent.
US-20 has been a four-lane divided highway across all of Iowa since October 2018. Past Independence and Manchester, it is a freeway with interchanges only. Its at-grade crossings begin at Delaware, east of Manchester. From the west:
East of exit 314, US-20 is Dodge Street. It has junctions with no exit number at Old Highway Road, the Northwest Arterial, Crescent Ridge and Cedar Cross Road/John F. Kennedy Road. Next come an interchange at Grandview and Fremont avenues and a right-in/right-out interchange at Hill and Bryant streets, before Locust Street. Through the city, it stays at least four lanes but has nine stoplights, mostly on the western edge. A short controlled-access stretch then drops into the Mississippi River valley. Between signals, give us the last cross street you passed.
Near the river, Locust Street (Iowa 946) meets Dodge Street at a signal. It is the link to US-61/151, because the expressway has no direct junction with US-20. The bridge landing sits back from the riverbank to clear a rail yard. The approach to the Julien Dubuque Bridge starts just east of that signal.
The bridge, completed in 1943, carries US-20 over the Mississippi to East Dubuque, Illinois. It is 5,760 feet long and 28 feet wide. The area's only other road bridge over the river, the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge, is about 3 miles north. A 28-foot deck leaves no room to work on a car. If yours still moves, get off the bridge before you stop.
Both closures on record sent traffic to the Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge, about 3 miles north.
Iowa DOT has no rest area anywhere on this stretch. A car that gives out between the Manchester exits and the bridge waits on the shoulder. West of exit 282 the road is freeway, and the end of an exit ramp is a calmer place to stop than the merge beside it. East of there, if the car still moves, an at-grade crossroad can take it off the highway altogether. Keep the hazards on and the belts fastened, and nobody steps out on the traffic side.
A crash, an injury or a car blocking a lane is a 911 call first. Then call (563) 239-6326 with the exit number or the last junction you passed and your direction. We quote a tow, a jump start from $79 or a spare put on from $92, with the timing, before we send anyone.
Give the exit number, anything from 275 at Manchester to 314 at the Southwest Arterial, plus your direction. Between Dyersville and Farley, name the last unnumbered junction you passed instead. On US-20 west of Dubuque, that is how we find the car, and a tow starts from $115.
No, left turns between US-20 and Bierman Road in Epworth ended when Iowa DOT closed the median crossing for good on Aug. 17, 2026. Only right-in and right-out turns are allowed. If your car gives out nearby, a tow on US-20 near Epworth starts from $115.
Not if the car still moves: the Julien Dubuque Bridge carries US-20 on a deck only 28 feet wide, with no room to work on a car. Roll off the bridge before you stop, then call us for a tow or roadside help. If the car dies on the deck itself, call 911 first.
Calls answered 24/7. Price and timing confirmed before anyone is sent.