The Eola yard
A rail yard 2.13 miles from the middle of town
The Eola yard is operated by BNSF Railway and its recorded coordinate lies 2.13 miles from the Aurora city centroid, inside the place. What moves through it we could not establish from anything we read for this page, so nothing here is built on the commodity.
The 75 miles filed against the row is a slice-wide constant for rail yards and is flagged as estimated rather than measured, and the coordinate itself is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point. That is true of every rail-yard row we hold, and it is stated here rather than presented as a pin on a map.
Sources: the city-pages node list and its rail-yard coordinate note, checked 2026-08-24.
A yard inside the city is a drayage job, not a highway one
That distance is the useful part of it. At 2.13 miles the yard is inside the built-up area, so the road work around it is local drayage and transload rather than line-haul. The 75 miles filed against the row is a slice-wide constant; the real distance on a drayage turn out of a yard like this is a fraction of it, and the day is made of several of them.
It also puts the traffic on city streets. Aurora’s population is above the 50,000 line at which an Illinois city may set its own weight limits by ordinance, and what it has actually posted we did not determine; the yard’s own coordinate reverse-geocodes to DuPage County, and the posting that governs a street is whoever’s posting is on it.
Stop-start work with weight on lands on the brakes and the clutch long before it shows in the miles.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs and road tractors are the ordinary shape around a BNSF Railway Company yard sitting 2.13 miles from the middle of town, with dump trucks and flatbeds on the construction side of a place this size in DuPage County and the counties it runs into. That is a read off the yard’s own coordinate, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Box trucks, straight trucks, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Aurora included, and the offer is made the same way on any of them.
Most of the reasons people sell aren’t happy ones, and we don’t treat them like they are. Somebody wants a straight answer and the truck gone by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine.
Illinois law
What the state lets a truck carry
Those loads all run under one set of numbers, and this is the ceiling every local one sits under. Illinois statute 625 ILCS 5/15-111 sets 80,000 pounds gross for five or more axles, 20,000 pounds on a single axle and 34,000 pounds on a tandem, with no axle inside that tandem over 20,000 pounds, and a formula for consecutive axle groups that varies with spacing.
Local authorities and cities over 50,000 people may set their own weight limits by ordinance, but the same statute stops them exceeding the state maximums. So an Illinois local limit can only ever be lower than the state figure, never higher — which is something to check before you plan a route on the state number alone.
That section carries no seasonal frost provisions and no harvest or agricultural exemptions. That is scoped to that section of the statute and is not a claim that Illinois has no seasonal restriction anywhere, which we did not check.
Source: Illinois General Assembly, 625 ILCS 5/15-111. Checked 2026-08-23.
Questions we get asked
- Does it have to run?No. We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it — but a truck that doesn’t start and is otherwise all there is fine. A missing bumper is fine.
- What about the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If yours is lost, a replacement is an $18 counter transaction. If there has never been one, there is a bonded route. Those are the three cases people actually arrive with.
- Do you come out this far?Yes. Whether you’re alongside the Eola yard 2.13 miles from the centroid or nowhere near it, we come to you. We buy across Aurora and the towns around it, and in North Aurora, Montgomery and Naperville as well — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.