Cook County
Three freight records in one village, and they are not the same kind of freight
The node list attaches three records to this village. Twenty-five places in Cook County carry a record of any kind at all, and nineteen of those twenty-five carry fewer than three. There is the Bensenville rail yard, run by Canadian Pacific. There is a liquid bulk terminal operated by Carry Transit. And there is a container ramp, the Bensenville Intermodal Terminal, sitting 0.53 miles from the yard.
The three do not work at the same range. The yard and the terminal are filed with 75-mile rings, and 228 records fall inside the yard’s. The ramp is filed at 150 miles, and 502 records fall inside that one, spread across five states. A village this size does not usually sit at the middle of two rings that different.
Source: the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-24. Ring radii are recorded as estimates.
The yard itself has no municipal address
That yard is worth a second look, because it does not belong to a town. Its recorded coordinate falls outside any incorporated place — checked against the Census geocoder — which means the attachment to Franklin Park is a nearest-place fallback rather than an address. The yard centre is 1.35 miles from the village centroid.
There is a second row under the same name and the same carrier, 1.49 miles away and filed in a different county, and on the county-split pattern the two rows are one yard recorded twice. So a driver working here can be a mile and a half from the same yard and be in a different county’s jurisdiction, and the paperwork will not agree with the windscreen.
Short hops, heavy cycles, constant gear changes. Clutches and brakes wear first here.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So the ordinary shape around Carry Transit and a container ramp is a day cab and a chassis, with straight trucks and box trucks across the rest of a Cook County ring that reaches 150 miles at its widest. That is a read off the node list, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, aggregate haulers, flatbeds, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Franklin Park 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. 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. 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 worth checking 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 a counter transaction at the Secretary of State. 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?We do. This is dense ground and coming to you is usually the simplest thing — though buying it remotely and arranging the tow works just as well if the truck is boxed in. We buy across Cook County and into Melrose Park, Elmwood Park and Schiller Park — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.