Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breakdown truck
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The officers called a breakdown truck to pull him out.
▪ Theft from truck: A gear box was stolen from a breakdown truck in Anchorage Lane, Northallerton.
Wiktionary
breakdown truck
n. (context chiefly UK English) A tow truck.
Usage examples of "breakdown truck".
After perhaps twenty minutes, during which time he began to imagine the damp from the needle-coated earth under his feet was seeping into his Wellingtons, and he was resting on a shooting-stick, the Mercedes was towed up by a breakdown truck, unhooked, and men pushed it towards the two Volkswagens.
All that remained after distance swallowed the breakdown truck were some black brake marks on the road and a pathetic heap of swept-up glass.
Up on the main road the orange MG dangled like a crumpled toy at the rear of the breakdown truck.