DuPage County
Three rows under one yard name, and one of them is numbered
The Proviso yard is operated by Union Pacific and its recorded coordinate lies 1.13 miles from the Elmhurst centroid, inside the place. It is Union Pacific’s principal Chicago-area classification yard. Two further rows carry that same name: a second Proviso 1.32 miles away in Cook County, and Proviso #9, 1.69 miles off at Northlake.
The county-split pattern in this data accounts for the first of those — same name, same carrier, different county, under four miles apart, which reads as one yard whose track polyline was cut at the county line. It does not account for the third. A numbered row was deliberately distinguished from its neighbours by whoever filed it, and a pattern built to resolve pairs has nothing to say about a trio.
Sources: the city-pages node list, its rail-yard coordinate note and the FCC census area lookup, checked 2026-08-24.
The container ramp is a third of a mile off, and it is the road half
Whatever those three rail rows turn out to be, the truck work sits next to them. A Union Pacific intermodal ramp lies 0.36 miles from the Proviso coordinate, filed as TOFC/COFC with a 150-mile drayage draw. That is the number written about roads rather than rails: past 150 miles an over-the-road move competes with the train.
So the shape here is a large classification yard with a container ramp against its shoulder. Classification is switching, and the road half of that is short local drayage measured in gates rather than miles. The ramp reaches out and home again. A truck kept in this corner could have done either, and the two do not wear alike.
Short legs and a lot of gate time, or one long steady day. The hour meter and the odometer disagree about which.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs and road tractors are the ordinary shape around Union Pacific’s principal Chicago-area yard and the ramp beside it, with box trucks and straight trucks on the warehouse side of Villa Park and the towns west. That is a read off four records, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, flatbeds, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Elmhurst 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, whichever of the three rows the gate belongs to. 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 — and if it suits you better we can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, so nobody has to be there on the day. We buy right across the county, and in Bensenville, Northlake, Stone Park and Villa Park 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.