You're out on a job. Who's answering the phone?

TrucksideHQ answers your business calls when you can't, for anyone who works away from the office: pest control, landscaping, real estate, home services and more. It picks up in two rings, books the appointment on your calendar and texts you the details, so you can keep working.

Heating Cooling Plumbing Roofing Electrical Garage doors Appliance repair Water heaters Pest control Landscaping Real estate Moving & towing Cleaning & painting

The phone always rings at the worst time

Most callers who reach voicemail don't leave a message. They hang up and call the next company on Google. By the time you see the missed call, that job is on someone else's schedule.

You didn't get into the trade to sit by a phone. You got into it to fix things. TrucksideHQ answers so you don't have to choose.

A technician inspecting an outdoor air conditioning unit beside a house
Missed call2:14 PM · No voicemail
Missed call2:16 PM · Same caller
A roofer applying torch-down membrane on a flat roof On a roof

Torch in hand

The phone's ringing in your pocket and you can't stop mid-seam.

A plumber tightening a pipe fitting with a wrench Under a sink

Wrench on a fitting

A new customer is calling about a leak of their own.

A technician on a ladder servicing a wall-mounted air conditioner Up a ladder

Both hands busy

Three calls stack up while you mount a mini-split.

A technician working on a water pump Utility room

No signal down here

The call goes to voicemail. The caller goes to Google.

Here's what happens when you can't pick up

You keep your number and your phone setup. TrucksideHQ only steps in when your office doesn't answer, or after hours.

  1. 9:47 PM, Tuesday

    A customer calls

    Your office is closed and you're at dinner. Instead of ringing out to voicemail, the call rolls to TrucksideHQ, which picks up in two rings.

  2. The next 60 seconds

    It talks like your dispatcher

    It answers in your company's name and asks the questions you'd ask. It knows a no-heat call with kids at home is urgent, and it books routine work into your open slots.

  3. Two minutes later

    You get a text, not a voicemail

    Name, address, problem and the booked time land on your phone. Real emergencies page your on-call tech straight away. Callers who hang up get a text back within a minute.

Try it yourself

Don't take our word for it. Call it.

Martinez Heating & Air, the company on that phone, is a sample business we set up so you can hear TrucksideHQ before you sign up. The line is live around the clock. Call it and play one of your own customers: the receptionist answers just like it would for your shop.

Live 24/7Demo line
Martinez Heating & AirA sample company, answered by TrucksideHQ
(615) 437-5239
Call the demo line
On a computer? Scan to call from your phone.

The greeting tells you it's a demo. Nothing is really booked and nobody gets paged, so try anything you like.

  1. My furnace quit and I've got kids at home.Hear it spot an urgent call and page the on-call tech.
  2. I need an AC tune-up next week.It offers open times, books one and reads the details back.
  3. Can I talk to a real person?It explains how it would transfer you to the owner, then takes a callback message.
  4. How much is a new system?It sticks to the prices it's given and books a free estimate instead of guessing.

Give it any city: the sample company serves wherever you are. For your shop, it uses your services, prices, hours and rules. Now see what missed calls cost you

What is voicemail costing you?

Move the sliders to match your shop. The numbers update as you go.

8
Count after-hours calls and hang-ups. Your phone carrier's call log shows this.
$450
A blended number across repairs, maintenance and installs.
50%
How many of those callers would have become a paid job.
Estimated work lost each month
$7,794
Recovered at 60–80% capture$4,676 – $6,235
Recovered jobs that cover the $197 Starter plan1 a month

Estimates from the numbers you entered, not a guarantee. The free audit uses your real call log.

An electrician working inside a circuit breaker panel Electrical
A technician checking an air conditioning unit HVAC
Service

Built around how your shop already runs

You've spent years learning your trade. We don't try to change how you work. We set TrucksideHQ up to answer the way you'd answer, then get out of the way.

  • Answers in your company's nameCallers hear your business, your hours and your service area.
  • Asks what your dispatcher would askMake, model, symptoms, access, pets, gate codes.
  • Knows an emergency in your tradeNo heat, no cool, active leaks and sparking panels go straight to your on-call tech.
  • Never quotes a price you didn't approveIt sticks to your service-call fee and passes pricing questions to you.
TrucksideHQ Your office, from the truck.

Real estate agents miss calls too

You can't pick up in the middle of a showing, a closing or a Sunday open house, and a buyer who reaches voicemail often calls the next agent. TrucksideHQ answers in your name, finds out what they need and sends you the details, so you call back ready.

  • Answers as you or your teamCallers hear your name, not a call center.
  • Asks what you'd askName, number, the property or area they're calling about, buying or selling, and when.
  • Sends you the details right awayA call summary by text or email, so you know who to call back first.
  • Leaves the selling to youQuestions about price, offers or a listing's details go straight to you.
Start a 14-day pilot Same plans and pricing as everyone else.

Try it for 14 days. Then pay monthly, or yearly and get 2 months free.

No setup fee and no contract. If it isn't paying for itself, you can stop any month.

14-day pilot

We set up your call answering, test it with you and switch it on for real calls. If you keep going, the $99 comes off your first month.

$99one-time
Start a pilot

Starter

$197/ month$1,970/ year2 months free

For businesses that want missed and after-hours calls covered.

  • Call answering for missed, busy and after-hours calls
  • Emergency calls sent straight to your on-call tech
  • Automatic text-back when a caller hangs up
  • Call summaries by text or email
  • 250 call minutes included
  • Extra minutes $0.40 each
  • Weekly report: calls answered, jobs booked
Start with a pilot

Pro

Recommended
$397/ month$3,970/ year2 months free

For businesses that also lose money on unsold quotes and thin reviews.

  • Everything in Starter
  • 600 call minutes included
  • Extra minutes $0.35 each
  • Quote follow-up by text and email on day 2, 5 and 14
  • Review requests after every completed job
  • Booking straight into Jobber, Housecall Pro or your scheduler
  • Win-back campaign to past customers each season
  • Monthly tuning call
Start with a pilot

Multi-location

From$697/ monthFrom$6,970/ year2 months free

For businesses running several locations, crews or phone lines.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 2 locations and 1,200 call minutes included
  • $247/month for each added location
  • Extra minutes $0.30 each
  • Separate scripts and routing for each location
  • Maintenance-plan renewal campaigns
  • Monthly revenue-recovered report
  • Priority support
Talk to us

About two hours of your time. Live by day 7.

Before day 1

You send your phone carrier login, service area, hours, emergency rules, service-call fee and your 10 most common caller questions.

Day 1

We build the call script, call forwarding, text-back and calendar booking. Then we run 10 test calls and go live.

Days 2–6

We tune it. We read every call and fix anything it got wrong. You keep running jobs.

Day 7

You see every call logged, the jobs booked, and a one-page report of missed calls before and after.

What owners ask before they sign

A technician in a hi-vis vest checking a kitchen range
My customers want to talk to a real person.

Many would. They'd also rather get a quick answer than a voicemail box, which is what most of them get today. TrucksideHQ isn't a live person, but it picks up in two rings and books the job. Anything unusual goes to your team.

We already answer our phones.

Let's check. Pull last month's call log and count missed, after-hours and hung-up calls. That's exactly what the free audit does. If you're missing fewer than 10% of calls, we'll tell you that you don't need us.

I don't have time to set this up.

You need about two hours in the first week, mostly answering questions about how you run calls today. We handle forwarding, scripts, testing and tuning.

We bought software before and nobody used it.

Your team doesn't need to learn anything. TrucksideHQ works in the background and the results show up as booked jobs and text summaries. Nobody has to log in to anything.

Is it worth $197 a month?

Run your numbers in the calculator above. For most businesses, one recovered job a month covers it. Start with the $99 pilot and judge it on your own calls.There's no contract, so if it isn't paying for itself you can stop any month.

What happens after the pilot?

If you keep going, you move to Starter or Pro and the $99 comes off your first month. If you don't, we switch your calls back and you owe nothing more.

Do callers know it's automated?

Yes. The greeting says the caller has reached an automated assistant for your company and that the call may be recorded. Being upfront keeps your business on the right side of call-recording laws, and callers care more about getting booked than who picks up.

What happens to my customers' information?

It stays yours. We use caller details only to answer and book calls for your business, we never sell them, and we delete recordings after 12 months or sooner if you ask. Our Privacy Policy has the details.

Find out how many calls you missed last month

Tell us about your shop and the plan you're looking at. We'll email you back to set up a 15-minute call, go through your call log with you, put a dollar figure on what was missed, and tell you plainly whether this is worth doing for your shop.

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