Tazewell County
Two rows attach here, and neither carries this town’s name
Two industrial rows attach to Creve Coeur by nearest-place fallback, and neither is named for it. The nearer is a rail yard recorded as EAST PEORIA (TZPR), operated by the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad, 1.24 miles away — and its coordinate falls inside East Peoria, which holds a page of its own. The other is the Peoria River Terminal, a liquid bulk terminal recorded to Lehigh Hanson, 1.76 miles away.
The two sit in different counties. The yard reverse-geocodes to Tazewell County and the terminal to Peoria County, so a town this size has two facilities on its doorstep under two neighbours’ names and two counties’ filings.
Sources: the city-pages node list, its rail-yard coordinate note and the FCC census area lookup, checked 2026-08-24.
A rail yard and a river terminal are two different working days
Those two rows want different trucks, and that is the useful part of holding both. A rail yard’s road work is drayage — short moves between a gate and a customer, several turns in a day. A liquid bulk terminal is tank work, and the 75 miles filed against a row like that is a slice-wide estimate rather than a measurement of anything here.
So one small town in Tazewell County sits between two quite different demands and neither of them is its own. What either facility actually handles we could not establish from anything we read, and the rail coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point.
Tank work and yard work wear a truck out in different places. The plate on the door does not say which.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs, road tractors and tankers are the ordinary shape around a rail yard and a bulk terminal sitting 1.76 miles and a little nearer than that, in Peoria County and Tazewell County respectively. That is a read off two records, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, flatbeds, farm trucks, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Creve Coeur 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, off a flatcar or out of a tank. 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 yard, out at the river terminal or nowhere near either, we come to you. We buy across Tazewell County, and in East Peoria, Marquette Heights and Pekin 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.