Nothing ruins a holiday faster than sitting on the gravel shoulder of Interstate 80 with flashers blinking, watching holiday traffic creep past while waiting two hours for a tow truck.

Thanksgiving week remains one of the heaviest travel windows of the year in the United States, with AAA historical data indicating that well over 70 million Americans routinely choose personal vehicles over flights for the long holiday weekend. When highways are congested and repair shops close early for the holiday, a preventable vehicle breakdown transforms from an annoyance into an expensive multi-day ordeal.