Class AA, Class G and the Highway Patrol rotation log: reading an Oklahoma wrecker license

What the class on the license means

The class labels below are from the 2023 wrecker manual the Department of Public Safety hosts. The cover of that file says May 2023. It prints Oklahoma Administrative Code chapter 595:25. GVWR in that chapter means gross vehicle weight rating.

Class AA

Any wrecker vehicle not less than 9,000 pounds GVWR that meets the Class AA requirements in that chapter.

Class AA-TM

Any wrecker vehicle not less than 24,000 pounds GVWR that meets the Class AA-TM requirements in that chapter.

Class AA-TL

Any wrecker vehicle not less than 44,000 pounds GVWR that meets the Class AA-TL requirements in that chapter.

Class G

General. All other wrecker vehicles under 47 O.S. § 951 and following. The manual also treats a Class G wrecker as a wrecker support vehicle for 47 O.S. § 12-218.1.

If a Class G wrecker service provides storage, the same definition says it must meet the facilities, storage, and insurance requirements of a Class AA wrecker service. If that Class G service does not provide storage, the manual says it is not held to those Class AA facility, storage, and insurance requirements. It still has to meet the Class G vehicle requirements and have a verified primary business location.

The manual's definition of a Class AA wrecker operator is an operator who meets 47 O.S. § 952(D) for towing for law enforcement agencies. It says Class AA may also be used for private-property towing and consent towing, and that Class AA must be able to tow, recover, and haul.

Under the general license requirements in that manual, wrecker operators shall be issued no more than one Class AA wrecker license for any one place of business.

The Highway Patrol rotation log

In the definitions, a rotation log is a list for each Highway Patrol Troop of current Class AA wrecker operators who meet the qualifications of Class AA truck wrecker services, whose place of business is inside that Troop, and who have requested the list and been approved. The last sentence of that definition says the list governs the alternation among approved Class AA-TL truck wrecker operators only.

The same manual, in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol rotation rules, says the Department keeps two official Oklahoma Highway Patrol Rotation Logs: a Class AA wrecker log and a Class AA-TL wrecker log. A licensed Class AA wrecker service that wants on the log files a written request for the Troop district where its place of business and its primary storage facility are located. The same license rules say an operator shall be permitted to rotate no more than one Class AA wrecker service in the same Highway Patrol rotation area. For that paragraph, the manual says "Class A wrecker service" includes services with a Class AA-TL wrecker vehicle.

The written request DPS hosts is form DPS-180-ROT, revision 0123, titled OHP Rotation Request. It is addressed to an applicant upon approval as a Class AA wrecker service. The applicant marks one of three choices: decline the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Rotation Log, request rotation for a named turnpike, or request the Highway Patrol Rotation Log. When the request is for the log, the form says to check one of Regular Rotation, Large Truck Rotation, or Regular and Large Truck Rotation.

The manual defines a law enforcement tow as a tow an operator makes when an officer compels a vehicle to be towed, or when an officer requests a tow using a law enforcement rotation log. That definition says the rates and fees prescribed by the Corporation Commission apply. The rates are on wrecker service in Oklahoma City.

The active list described below does not have a rotation column. Ask the company, or ask the agency that ordered the tow.

Reading the DPS active list

The Active Wrecker Services file dated June 23, 2026 has columns for company name, DPS wrecker license number, wrecker class, license status, day phone, night phone, and office street, city, state, and ZIP. License numbers on that file use the form DPS-#####-W. Counted on October 23, 2026, the file has 591 unique active license numbers: 445 Class AA, 130 Class G, and 16 in other classes. Of those 591, 63 show an office city of Oklahoma City or OKC: 30 Class AA, 30 Class G, and 3 in other classes. Every one of the 591 was marked Active. Rows that share a license number were counted once.

These figures are tied to the June 23, 2026 file. They are not the roster counts used on other pages of this site. Those pages use lists with different dates, so the numbers will not match. For a town-by-town check of the directory, use Oklahoma City towing near me.

Opened October 23, 2026, the DPS Wrecker Services page links a later file titled Wrecker Services Licensed in Oklahoma. That file name is dated October 8, 2026. Its columns are company, license number, day phone, night phone, and office address. It does not show wrecker class. The class split above is from the June 23, 2026 file.

What to ask

Ask which class the wrecker vehicle is. Class AA, Class AA-TM, Class AA-TL, and Class G are different lines in the manual. A card that only shows a company name does not answer that.

Ask whether the company is on a Highway Patrol rotation log. Do not assume it from a directory row, from an office city, or from a mailing city. An officer's tow and a tow you request are different calls. Say which one you are making.

If the job needs a larger wrecker than a light hookup, leave this guide for heavy recovery and still ask which truck the company will send. This directory does not choose the truck.