More than a driver
You already know how to drive. We pay you to learn the rest.
Tuber Towing & Recovery is hiring across Alberta, and a Class 5 licence is the door in. Tow experience is not required — you are on your full wage from your first day, including the days you spend learning.
What you learn is recovery: winching, rigging, and the specialized equipment that gets a loaded unit back on its wheels. The fleet is modern, around 30 trucks, and it runs from light service right through to heavy recovery.
Full-time operators sit in the $60,000 to $80,000+ range, depending on the track you run, the hours you take and what you already bring.
Every figure on this page is an estimate, not an offer of employment.
See what this means for your paycheckFirst, what the work actually is
The short version
- Every hour
- Carries a safety bonus
- Not a target you hit — part of the rate.
- Day 1
- Full wage while you train
- No unpaid shadowing, no unpaid ride-along period.
- ~30
- Trucks in the fleet
- Light service units through heavy recovery gear.
The work
Recovery, not just towing
At one end it is light service: boosts, tire changes, lockouts, fuel. Then flat deck and wheel lift work — most of what the public pictures when they hear "tow truck".
At the other end is the part that takes training. Heavy tow and heavy recovery: straight trucks and tractor-trailers, winching, rigging, multiple units on one scene, and the loads that have to be made safe before anything moves.
Those are the calls a lot of shops pass on. Taking them is the point of the company, and it is why the training is paid for rather than expected.
About the hours
Some of this work happens between 10pm and 6am. Those hours carry extra pay, and the differential exists because the hours do.
Weather does not reschedule. The worst nights are the busiest ones — that is when the phone rings, and it is the honest reason this job pays what it does.
On-call is extra hours if you want them, never a requirement. Plenty of operators never take it, and that is a normal way to work here — not a mark against you.
Why Tuber
Three you can hold us to
Tuber runs on five core values — Dedicated, Passionate, Safety, Resilient and Creative. Rather than write a paragraph under each one, here are three with something concrete behind them.
Safety
Every hour you work carries a safety bonus — it is part of the rate, not a target. Pass a commercial vehicle inspection and there is a bonus attached to it depending on the level.
Dedicated
It runs both ways. You are on your full regular wage from day one, including while you are learning. Tuber pays for WreckMaster and other industry training, and sends operators to upgrade their licence class so they can run bigger units.
Resilient
The hard calls are the job, so they are paid like it: extra pay for overnight hours, exceptional recovery work pays exceptional bonuses, and stepping up into a bigger unit or covering a leadership gap earns extra pay for as long as you are doing it. On-call is there if you want the hours — it is never a requirement.
The purpose, in their own words
Innovating to keep the World Moving
The three things Tuber says make it different
- Doing it Right
- Problem Solving
- We Care
Those are the words already on the wall internally, not copy written for a recruiting page.
How you get paid
Hourly. Not commission.
Some shops only pay you for the call. Between calls, you are on your own time — and a slow night is your problem rather than theirs.
That is not how this works. You are paid to check the truck before your shift, to put it away after, and to be ready in between. If you are working, the clock is running.
The safety bonus works the same way: it is on every hour you work, not on the calls you happen to catch.
The part with numbers
See what this means for your paycheck
Everything above is a claim. This is where you check it. Put in what you earn now and the hours you actually give up, and the same work gets priced back at you line by line — base, safety bonus, overnight differential and the rest.
Most towing outfits will not tell you what they pay until the interview. The number is on this website instead.
- About 90 seconds.
- No name, no resume, no phone number.
- It is an estimate, not an offer.
Coverage
Where we operate
Alberta. City calls, highway calls, and the long stretches between towns where you are the only truck coming.
Based in Spruce Grove. That is where the yard is and where most shifts start and end.
The greater Edmonton region is the day-to-day — city calls, ring road, the highways feeding into it.
Anywhere in Western Canada for the right job. Long-distance recoveries happen, and you will know before you go — they are not sprung on you at the end of a shift.
Open roles
Where you start, and how you move
Four tracks. You start where your licence and your hours on real equipment put you today, and you move as you pick up tickets — which Tuber pays for, on the clock.
Light Service
Roadside work: boosts, tire changes, lockouts, fuel delivery. A Class 5 and a willingness to be out in the weather is the entry point.
Light Tow
Flat deck and wheel lift work, impounds, cars and light trucks.
Heavy Tow
Straight trucks and tractor-trailers, landoll and trailering work. Class 3 or Class 1 territory, with air.
Heavy Recovery
Winching and rigging, rollovers, multi-unit scenes. The calls that need a plan drawn up before anything moves.
Nobody expects you to arrive at the heavy end. Most operators do not start there.
Most people start within a few days of accepting. If you need a licence upgrade or training first, that gets scheduled and explained up front.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask
Do I need tow experience?
No. A Class 5 and a clean abstract is the starting point. Training is paid — WreckMaster and other industry training — and you are on your full regular wage while you do it. No unpaid ride-alongs.
What are the hours really like?
Scheduled shifts, plus overnights when it is your turn — those carry extra pay. On-call is optional extra hours, not a requirement, and nobody is put on it who does not want it. That is exactly why the calculator asks about both kinds of hours: some employers quietly expect you to be available for free, and this shows you what that is worth.
Why show the pay at all?
"Competitive wages" in a job ad tells you nothing, and everyone in this industry knows it. If these numbers only looked good hidden, that would be Tuber's problem to fix — not yours to discover in month three.
Where do I apply?
Work through the calculator and leave your details at the end, or email jobs@tubertowing.ca if you would rather skip straight to that. Either way a real person gets back to you.
When do I start?
Usually just a few days after you accept. If a licence upgrade or extra training is needed first, we'll walk you through that timeline too — it is not something you find out about later.