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📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateToledo is the Cumberland County seat — 22 miles south of Mattoon along the Embarras River. Small-town Illinois with working farms surrounding it. We're there often enough to know the back roads.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles the full range of dirt and site work in Toledo — rock driveways for rural homes, foundation excavation, pond cleanout, drainage, culvert installs, and demolition. If it involves moving earth, we've done it in Cumberland County.
Embarras River bottoms surround Toledo on multiple sides — drainage and flood-related work shows up here regularly. Old farmsteads needing demo, derelict outbuildings, and unmaintained creek crossings round out the mix.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in Toledo, Greenup, Jewett, Neoga, or rural Cumberland County.
Foundations, basements, drainage, trenching, and site prep across Cumberland County.
Crushed limestone driveways for rural and residential properties around Toledo.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared from Toledo-area properties. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts across Cumberland County.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements.
French drain installation in Toledo — perimeter, footing, and yard French drains to carry off groundwater and dry out wet ground.
Drainage tile, French drains, foundation drains, and yard drainage in Toledo and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.
Trenching in Toledo for drainage tile lines, French drains, culvert lines, and water lines — cut on continuous fall to a real outlet, pipe bedded, backfilled and graded smooth.
Pole barn pads, garage and shed pads, residential foundations, and commercial slab prep in Toledo. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Toledo. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Toledo. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.
Yard, driveway, lot, and finish grading — crowned, sloped, and drained right.
New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.
Earthen pond and lake dams built across a draw near Toledo — keyed core trench, clay placed in compacted lifts, outlet and emergency spillway set to elevation.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Toledo — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.
NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.
Cat D6N dozer work in Toledo — building pads pushed to grade, push-and-pile clearing, pond banks and berms shaped, and finish grading across open ground.
Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.
Toledo and the Cumberland County timber ground is honest pond country — relief to work with, clay to build with, and watershed to fill it. Dam height and depth drive the job; what goes into a pond's cost covers the rest. Older ponds around here mostly need the dam re-keyed and the emergency spillway put back to grade — that's farm pond repair.
In Toledo, that demolition includes barn demolition, grain bin removal, and concrete & foundation removal — torn down, hauled off, and the site graded clean. See all demolition services. Out on the farmsteads and commercial lots around Toledo that also means silo removal, pole barn demolition, underground tank removal, inground pool removal & pool fill-in, and commercial demolition — same crew, same trucks, same free on-site walk.
There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Toledo comes down to size and construction, whether the foundation or slab comes out, asbestos on the older buildings, how tight the access is, and how far the debris has to haul. We read all of that at a free on-site walk and hand you a straight number.
Brohez Trucking is a demolition contractor in Toledo, IL and the Cumberland County seat area. We tear down barns, corn cribs, machine sheds, grain bins, garages, mobile homes, and houses across Toledo and the Embarras River farm country around it — then haul the debris out and grade the footprint clean.
Old farmstead buildings are the bulk of it here. Timber-frame barns come apart differently than pole buildings, and we scope each one on site rather than guessing from a photo. See barn demolition, grain bin removal, or all demolition services. Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate.
Toledo and Greenup work overlaps heavily — same county, same crews, same haul — and so does the tile. Cumberland County ag ground is a mix of flats worth tiling and rolling ground that mostly drains itself, so what's in the ground here is patchy and old rather than systematic.
Patchy and old is actually harder to work on than a designed system, because there's no pattern to reason from. We start at the outlet, follow the run, and narrow the failure to a section instead of a field before we open anything. Collapsed clay, crushed laterals, and buried outlets cover most of it; where a single low spot is the whole complaint, one targeted line trenched to a real outlet fixes it.
Repair and targeted lines — no pattern tile. See drain tile repair, trenching in Toledo, or drainage. Free estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Toledo is the seat of Cumberland County — small county, small county seat, about 1,200 people. It sits on US-40 about 25 miles southeast of Mattoon, between Charleston and Greenup. We run US-40 east or IL-121 south — 35 minutes with equipment.
Sub-areas we cover too: Greenup (5 miles south), Hidalgo, Janesville, Jewett, and the rural pieces of north and central Cumberland County. Toledo and Greenup work overlap heavily — same county, same crews, same haul.
Common Toledo jobs: Rural farm-lane work, drainage tile and pond cleanouts on the ag ground, foundation digs and pole barn pads on the rural acreages, and small-commercial work in town and along the US-40 frontage. As the county seat, Toledo gets a steady trickle of municipal-adjacent and contractor work — we partner with builders here. Cumberland County township entrances see the same rusted-invert failure as Greenup's, and culvert replacement is the standing fix once the bottom is gone.
No travel surcharge. Toledo jobs price the same as Mattoon jobs. The drive is part of our normal service area, not a premium add-on.
Toledo, Greenup, Hidalgo, Janesville, Jewett, and the rural pieces of central Cumberland County.
US-40 east or IL-121 south — about 25 miles, 35 minutes with equipment.
Yes — site prep, foundation excavation, and rough grading for residential builders working in Toledo, Greenup, and the surrounding county.
Yes — Toledo, Greenup, Jewett, Neoga, Hidalgo, Janesville, and rural Cumberland County.
No. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.
Yes — old barns, outbuildings, foundations, and slabs. We tear them down and haul off clean.
The volume here is drainage work, rock driveways, and old-farmstead demolition.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.
"Would 100% use them again for rock or gravel needs. Levi was able to help with several gravel loads across different days and did a great job on the last day to help spread and level the last loads of gravel. He was also upfront about the price — no hidden or additional charges."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Toledo and the surrounding county regularly.
Call us and we'll come look. No pressure, no obligation — just a straight number.
When you call, you talk to Levi — the man running the machine, not a salesman.
(217) 809-0779 📞 Call For Free Estimate Send A MessageHours: Monday–Saturday, 7am–7pm · Mattoon, IL · Serving Toledo, Cumberland County, and central Illinois