How Much Does It Cost to Get a Car Towed in Volusia County?

A tow of a standard car in Volusia County has a legal ceiling of $135.00 when it is ordered by a property owner and $150.00 when it is ordered by law enforcement. Those figures come straight from the county's published ordinance rate schedule, and they are the reason towing cost in Volusia County is far more predictable than most drivers assume.

What surprises people is not the tow itself. It is everything that attaches to it — the drop fee, the storage clock, the mileage band, the administrative charge. This guide walks through each one using the county's own numbers, so a driver in Deltona knows what a bill should look like before it arrives.

Towing rates in Florida are set at the county level. Florida Statute 125.0103 states that counties "must establish maximum rates which may be charged on the towing of vehicles or vessels from or immobilization of vehicles or vessels on private property," and that any county or municipality doing so "must publish such rates on its website."

That single sentence explains why a tow in Volusia County can be priced differently than the identical tow in Brevard or Pinellas. It also explains why searching for a statewide Florida towing price returns a range instead of an answer — there is no statewide number to find.

One caveat matters for Deltona specifically. The same statute allows a municipality to enact its own rate ordinance, and where it does, the county's ordinance does not apply inside that city. Deltona has no published municipal towing rate schedule that we could locate, so the county caps described below are the operative published figures, but it is worth asking the city clerk if you are disputing a charge.

Volusia County's rate schedule organizes vehicles into four classes, and almost every private passenger vehicle in Deltona falls into Class A, defined as a gross vehicle weight rating of 5,999 pounds or less. These are the county's published maximums for that class:

Heavier vehicles climb sharply. The published Class B ceiling is $300.00 for a trespass tow and $350.00 for a nonconsensual tow, Class C is $450.00 and $500.00, and Class D is $600.00 and $650.00. A driver of an ordinary sedan, pickup, or crossover will not touch those tiers.

A trespass tow is one a property owner orders when a vehicle is parked somewhere it should not be, and Volusia County caps it $15.00 below a nonconsensual tow. A nonconsensual tow is the one law enforcement directs, usually after a crash, an arrest, or an abandoned vehicle call.

Same truck, same car, same distance — the price changes based on who picked up the phone. The county also requires the tow operator to notify the Volusia County Sheriff's Office within thirty minutes of completing a trespass tow, which is the mechanism that lets a driver find a car that vanished from an apartment lot on Providence Boulevard overnight.

Neither of those categories describes the tow most people actually order. When you call a company yourself because your car quit, that is a consent tow, and it is priced by agreement rather than by the county ceiling. Towing Deltona quotes a flat rate on the call for that reason.

If you reach your vehicle while it is hooked but still on the property, Florida Statute 715.07 requires that "the vehicle or vessel must be returned upon the payment of a reasonable service fee of not more than one-half of the posted rate for the towing or removal service." Volusia County states the same rule in its ordinance: the maximum drop fee is half the tow fee.

On a Class A trespass tow, that ceiling is about $67.50 — roughly half of what you would pay to retrieve the car from a yard the next morning, before storage even starts. Sprinting across a parking lot is, in dollar terms, one of the better-paid things a driver can do.