★ 4.9 · 487 reviews·From $49·24-Hour Private Roadside
Keys in the truck bed after a Stockyards night, fob locked in the car at TCU, or doors slammed shut at a Dickies Arena event — our long-reach and wedge tools open most Fort Worth vehicles without scratching paint or kinking weatherstripping, and most unlocks wrap in under ten minutes.
Highway 35 Roadside provides 24/7 auto lockout in Fort Worth, TX, serving Tarrant County and the surrounding Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex & North Texas. Typical on-scene arrival is 20–35 minutes anywhere in Fort Worth. Flat upfront pricing from $49 with no hidden fees, hookup fees, or after-hours upcharges. Call (469) 340-3500 to dispatch a tech now.
Child or pet locked inside in Fort Worth heat? Tell dispatch first — we escalate.
Call now: (469) 340-3500Our roadside assistance covers all Fort Worth neighborhoods, including areas near Fort Worth Stockyards, Sundance Square, Dickies Arena. We also provide service to apartment communities, office parks, shopping centers, hotels, and entertainment venues throughout the city — and the broader Tarrant County region.
Stockyards weekends produce a steady mix of tourist lockouts (rental cars with key fobs left at the hotel) and heavy-truck tire calls (F-250 / F-350 work trucks and livestock trailers with sidewall damage from cobbled side streets). We carry the bigger jacks and the longer-reach unlock tools and we know which Stockyards lots have height clearance for service trucks.
Dickies Arena and the Will Rogers complex push event-night roadside demand up sharply during Stock Show and the arena's concert calendar. Cultural District garage decks are slow to drain after a sellout, and dead batteries in the back rows are common. We stage near University Drive before doors close.
Sundance Square garage decks see weekday lunch-hour lockouts (key fobs in the office) and evening dead-battery calls (interior light on all afternoon). Downtown Fort Worth's one-way grid trips up out-of-town tow chains — we work the deck addresses daily.
TCU campus and the surrounding student-housing apartments generate a steady stream of cold-snap dead-battery calls and key-fob-locked-inside calls between class blocks. We run the West Berry Street and Stadium Drive routes and most TCU student calls are dispatched within 30 minutes.
Step-by-step action guides for the specific Fort Worth breakdown scenarios this service handles most.
If your car won't start or you've got a flat in a DFW stadium lot, stay belted inside the vehicle, kill your headlights and A/C to preserve battery, drop a GPS pin instead of describing your location, and call a professional with amber lights — stadium lots are active traffic zones and a parked vehicle is often struck within minutes.
For event venues including Dickies Arena.
Your instinct will scream 'get out and look at the engine.' Suppress it. Stadium parking lots are active demolition derbies of distracted fans, golf carts, and ride-share drivers staring at phones. Inside the vehicle, your seatbelt stays on. If smoke appears from the hood, that's a fire hazard — exit immediately to a position behind a concrete bollard, not standing beside the car. A stationary vehicle in the Arlington Entertainment District is often struck by a second vehicle within minutes of stopping.
Turn on your four-ways, then turn OFF your headlights and A/C. After four hours of tailgating with stereos and TVs running, your battery has already been drained — hazards alone give you roughly 45 minutes of visibility before total blackout. In a parking garage like the Lexus Garage at The Star, hazards also signal fans whipping around blind corners. Crack a passenger-side window one inch; a dark Texas interior climbs to 120°F in 10 minutes and you need airflow.
When you call, do not say 'I'm near AT&T Stadium.' The complex is 1.8 square miles and 12,000 spaces. Walk us in: 'Silver Lot 4, facing Cowboys Way, 3 rows back from the pedestrian bridge, under the big video board.' Better — drop a Google Maps pin, screenshot it, and text it to dispatch. Stadium cellular congestion frequently kills live-location sharing, so a static screenshot is faster than waiting for a live feed to load.
Turn the engine off completely and pull the hood release but do not prop the hood open until you see our amber lights. An open hood in a stadium lot attracts well-meaning fans with jump packs that can spike a modern BMW or Tesla ECU. Hold your phone at 20% battery minimum by closing every app except Maps. If approached, politely decline: 'I have a digital battery management system, I need a regulated jump.' Most strangers won't push past that.
The technician approaches from the traffic-flow direction with amber overheads on, and stages behind your vehicle to create a buffer zone. Do not exit to greet them until they've chocked a wheel and made eye contact through your mirror with a nod. In event-traffic chaos this prevents stepping into a service-vehicle lane. Jump starts and tire changes happen with you seatbelted inside; lockouts are the only call where we'll ask you to step to the front of the vehicle, clear of traffic.
Once you're running, wait until we've packed up and reversed out — we become your blocker. We signal you into the exit flow, absorbing the honks so you don't get rear-ended joining the conga line of departing fans. Do not turn off your car again for at least 30 minutes after a jump start; that's the minimum the alternator needs to replenish a surface charge drained by hours of stadium idling.
If you're stranded in Deep Ellum, West 7th, Sundance Square, or Bishop Arts after bar close, get to the nearest well-lit business facade as your safe base, do NOT sit in the driver's seat if you've been drinking (Texas Penal Code 49.04 can charge DWI for 'operating' a vehicle), and decline help from strangers — say 'my cousin is a mechanic, on his way.'
For entertainment districts including Fort Worth Stockyards, Sundance Square, TCU Campus.
It's 1:30 AM in Deep Ellum and you've found a dead battery or a lockout. By law and safety logic, do not stand in the roadway — but a dark sidewalk by an alley off Elm Street is also a risk vector. Find the nearest well-lit, open business facade, even an ATM vestibule, and make that your safe base. We'll call when we're one block away. If you've had any alcohol, do NOT sit in the driver's seat with keys in your pocket — Texas Penal Code 49.04 allows a DWI charge for 'operating,' which some officers interpret as occupying that seat with access to keys.
In Bishop Arts or Lower Greenville your flat is likely from a broken bottle, a curb-pothole, or a metal valve stem from street sweeping. Before we arrive, use your phone flashlight from inside the car to scan the street around the tire. If you see jagged glass still embedded in the tread, do not touch it. Tell dispatch 'debris in tire, still embedded' — the tech brings a plug kit and expects a sharp extraction, not just a swap. Prevents a second flat 20 feet down the road.
At bar-close in Sundance Square or West 7th you'll be approached by pedestrians offering help. Some mean well, some don't. Safest script: 'My cousin is a mechanic, he's on his way right now, thank you.' Emphasizing a personal connection ('cousin') shuts down persistent offers more reliably than 'I've already called someone.' Never accept a stranger's push — an unpowered car with no steering assist or brake boost is nearly impossible to control on a slope and you'll roll into a parked car or a DART track.
Our truck pulls in with amber flashers and a rear-facing arrow board, creating a legal utility-work-zone buffer under Texas Transportation Code. Exit your vehicle on the passenger side only, directly onto the sidewalk. For lockouts we need your ID to verify ownership before unlocking — have it ready, not buried in the locked glovebox. Once the door's open, start the car immediately and confirm the fob is detected so we don't leave you with a 'no key detected' fault after we drive off.
We won't leave until your car is running, lights are on, and you're pulling away safely. We follow for one block to confirm no dash alerts. On Elm Street with heavy pedestrian spillover at 2 AM, our truck serves as your rear blocker until you're fully integrated into moving traffic and clear of the bar crowd.
Don't see your exact breakdown spot? DFW's traffic system is a complex web. If you're broken down near Reunion Tower, a DART station in Plano, Buc-ee's in Denton, or a hidden garage in Las Colinas — here's what to do right now:
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Page last updated 2026-06-23. Corrections welcome at dispatch@highway35roadside.com.