Grand Aberdeen Service Station

These guys are the best guys I’ve worked for so if you need a tow were the ones to call on we have the best rates you can imagine by the way my name is Clarence I’m one of the tow-​operators

Feels kinda weird to leave a positive review of a towing company, but these guys were really good. I think towing depends a lot on the context. If you’re asking for a tow and get good service, you’ll be pleased. If your car got towed involuntarily, you’re going to associate the tow truck with that unpleasant experience.
I had to have my car towed into Grossinger for service, and they referred me to these guys. They brought a full bed truck, so I wasn’t just getting rolled down the street. The guy chained my car up and winched up the ramp, and I was at Grossinger in a jiffy. Perfectly pleasant ride there with the driver, too.
Everything about the process was smooth. If you need your car towed, call these guys.

THESE GUY ARE A-​HOLES. Couldn’t be bigger jerks. Not only do they waste space in a good neighborhood but they think because they have a shop here that they own the street. The people who work there are the biggest wastes of space in the universe.

The customer service of the people coming out to my house was fairly good, however, they came out to my house to give my car a jump start, didn’t jump it and still charged me $ 50 of the full $ 85. They just slipped this charge into the billing of my Toyota dealer after they towed it there. They must have thought I would not notice or ask them about it.
Friendly service, but shady billing.

I use to make quick stops in here all of the time for a newspaper, lottery ticket or some over priced gas but all of that is gone. The gas pumps are history and the store is no more. There is no love lost on my part because there was never any customer service here. In fact, they seemed really mean every time I went in.
I do believe they still run there tow trucks out of here. They have those massive tow trucks for large trucks. There parking lot also tells a story of accidents and destruction. It is not uncommon to see a semi trailer here that lost a battle with a viaduct. The truck never wins that one.
Just be warned there is no gas or gum here anymore. But if you drive a semi and hit a bridge, these are the guys you call.

letting a cop sit in your drive day after day to bust speeders isn’t going to win you any customers.

Note to gas station owners: in order to complain you’re not making any profit because of high gas prices, it helps to be able to actually be able to serve gas… This gas station sucks. Half the credit card readers at the pumps are always out of order, so you have to drive around (well there are only 4 or so pumps anyway) to figure out which one is working. Last time I was here, not a single pump had a working credit card reader on it, and I had to waste a good 10 minutes to learn this as they didn’t have signs on the supposedly non-​broken ones. Über annoying.
(This is a Marathon gas station, btw)

When the gas prices skyrocketed after Hurricane Katrina, this was the station written about in multiple newspapers and on the news whose prices had jumped the most. It was like over $ 1 per gallon overnight. Ridiculous!
They used to have pop, gum, and other gas-​station munchies, but since at least last spring (of ’07), their shelves have been completely bare. Word was they were going to tear the place down to put up more condos, because you know the neighborhood can’t pop up enough «luxury, modern condos» but there’s still nothing that’s been done.
Either tear the darn place down or bring me back my pop and snacks! It was such an easy jaunt from my work to get my caffeine and Extra gum fix, but now it’s just a vacant convenience store with gas pumps and service station.