Kankakee County
The yard attached to this page is not in this town
The Hobbie yard is operated by Norfolk Southern and its recorded coordinate lies 2.27 miles from the Bradley centroid, which is how it attached — nearest place holding a city page. The coordinate itself falls inside Kankakee city, which has a page of its own.
The row’s name does not identify the city containing it, so it is set down plainly here: the yard is a Kankakee address. What moves through it we could not establish, the 75 miles on the row is a slice-wide constant flagged as estimated, and the coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point.
Sources: the city-pages node list, its rail-yard coordinate note and the FCC census area lookup, checked 2026-08-24.
Two miles is nothing to a truck and everything to a rulebook
Those 2.27 miles are not a distance problem. A truck working out of the yard is in Bradley and in Kankakee on the same shift, and nobody driving it notices a line on a map.
It is a rules problem, though. Illinois lets local authorities set weight limits lower than the state’s, and these are two separate authorities sharing one road network in Kankakee County. What either has posted we did not determine, and that is the answer rather than a gap being stepped around.
On a route that crosses a village line, the posting that counts is the one on the street you are actually on.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs and road tractors are the ordinary shape around a Norfolk Southern yard, and here they are working two municipalities’ streets in Kankakee County to reach one. That is a read off the record, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Bradley 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 it is the same set on both sides of the village line. 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 HOBBIE yard — Norfolk Southern’s, and its recorded coordinate lands on the Kankakee side of the line rather than in Bradley — or nowhere near it, we come to you. We buy across Kankakee County, and in Bourbonnais, Kankakee and Manteno 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.