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12 miles east of our Mattoon shop — practically next door. We're as local as it gets in Coles County.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateCharleston is right next door. From our shop in Mattoon, we're 12 miles down Route 16 — about 15 minutes. This is home turf. Coles County is where we work most days, and Charleston gets the same priority and attention as anything else local.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles excavation, rock driveways, demolition, land clearing, hauling, pond work, and culvert installs in Charleston and the surrounding area. We work for homeowners, builders, EIU and the campus area, farmers, and contractors — same crew, same equipment, same straight pricing.
Because Charleston is so close, mobilization is fast. Most weeks we can be on-site for an estimate within a day or two — and emergency work like washouts or storm damage moves even faster. If something needs to happen today, Charleston is one of the easiest jobs for us to fit in.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free estimate anywhere in Charleston, the campus area, or the rural parts of Coles County.
Every service we offer is available in Charleston.
Foundations, basements, drainage, septic, trenching, and site prep across Coles County.
New gravel driveway installs, repairs, and grading throughout Charleston, IL.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean in Charleston.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared throughout Coles County. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered to Charleston. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts, restoration, and leak repair.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements in Charleston and Coles County.
French drain installation in Charleston — 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 Charleston and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.
Trenching in Charleston for drainage tile lines, French drains, culvert lines, septic 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 Charleston. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Charleston. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Charleston. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.
Yard grading, driveway, lot, and finish grading in Charleston — regrade to fix standing water, crowned, sloped, and drained right.
New ponds built from scratch — layout, basin, dam, spillway, and seeding.
Recreational, fishing and farm lakes near Charleston — big-dam construction, spillway sizing and armoring, and the earthmoving a lake takes.
NRCS-spec waterways and WASCOBs — cut, shaped, and seeded to plan.
Stripped, cut, compacted, and rocked — ready for the post crew.
In Charleston, that demolition includes barn demolition, garage & shed teardown, grain bin removal, and concrete & foundation removal — torn down, hauled off, and the site graded clean. See all demolition services.
There's no honest flat price on a teardown — what it runs in Charleston 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.
See what moves the price on a barn, garage, or grain bin teardown.
Brohez Trucking is a demolition contractor in Charleston, IL working right next door — twelve miles down Route 16 from our shop. We take down houses, detached garages, sheds, barns, and outbuildings in town and out in rural Coles County, then haul the debris and grade the lot back clean. In-town Charleston lots are tight, so we plan the machine approach and the truck turnaround before anything comes down.
Rentals, estate properties, and farmsteads out toward Lerna, Ashmore, and Oakland are the usual calls. See house demolition, garage demolition, barn demolition, or all demolition services. Free on-site estimate — call (217) 809-0779.
Charleston is ten minutes from the shop, and drain tile repair is one of the steadier calls we get out of Coles County. The ground east of town toward the Embarras bottoms is a different animal than the flat farm ground north of Route 16 — bottom ground has outlets that silt in and banks that erode back over a tile end, while the flat ground has runs that settle out of grade and quit moving water long before anything visibly breaks.
In older Charleston neighborhoods we spend as much time on yard tile and footing drains as on field tile — a lot of those lines are clay, they're older than the houses' current owners, and tree roots have been working on them for decades. On the ag ground it's the usual: collapsed clay, crushed plastic, blown outlets. We locate the failure, dig it, splice or replace the bad run, and rebuild the outlet if that's where it went wrong.
Repair and targeted lines — no pattern tile. Full detail on drain tile & field tile repair, or see drainage work in Charleston if it's surface water. Call (217) 809-0779.
Charleston has the best pond terrain in Coles County. The ground east and south of town breaks toward the Embarras River, and that relief gives you something most of central Illinois doesn't: real draws worth damming. Build across the right one and the valley does half the work — less dirt moved, more depth for the money, and a natural watershed already pointed at the basin. The trade-off is that Embarras tributaries flash hard after a four-inch rain, so the emergency spillway has to be sized for the whole watershed, not the pretty-day flow. There's often timber on the footprint to clear first, and the uplands hold good clay while the river bottoms run sandier — we read that before we stake anything.
Charleston pond jobs are clay-lined and runoff-fed, dam keyed into native clay, spillway cut to grade and seeded. See pond construction cost for what actually moves a new-build number, or fix a leaking pond if a dam has started seeping at the toe. Bigger watershed than a pond can use? That's lake construction.
Charleston is close enough that we know the people, the soil, and the roads. We've put rock driveways in across Coles County for years, dug foundations on rural properties, cleaned out and restored ponds, and replaced culverts that washed out in the spring rains. Local enough that we'll see you again — that matters.
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Real jobs from across Coles County and central Illinois.
Charleston is our backyard — Coles County seat, 12 miles east of Mattoon down Route 16. Eastern Illinois University, downtown Charleston, Lake Charleston and Fox Ridge State Park to the south, the surrounding farm country. We're there constantly. Most weeks we run at least one Charleston-area job, often more.
Sub-areas we cover: Charleston, Lerna, Loxa, Ashmore, Oakland, Hutton, Rardin, Trilla, Dorans, Westfield, and rural Coles County. Coles County is home turf — we know the back roads, the soil, and the local contractors.
Common Charleston-area jobs: rock driveway installs (long farm lanes are common around Lerna and Ashmore), residential excavation and demo inside Charleston, EIU-area rentals and contractor sub-work, drainage tile and yard drainage repair, pond cleanouts and new pond builds on the farms outside town, culvert installs along county roads, and grassed waterway / NRCS work in season. Coles County is one of our most active grassed waterway markets.
Routes: Route 16 east — straight shot from the Mattoon shop, 12 miles, ~20 minutes with equipment. We can be there before lunch on most calls.
No travel surcharge — Charleston is home base. If anything, we get there faster than further-out outfits trying to come in from Champaign or Effingham.
All of Coles County. Specifically: Charleston, Lerna, Loxa, Ashmore, Oakland, Hutton, Rardin, Trilla, Dorans, Westfield, and rural Coles County. We're 12 miles from Charleston — it's home turf.
Yes — Coles County is one of our most active markets for practice 412 grassed waterway work, plus terraces, WASCOBs, and grade-stabilization. We've worked alongside the Coles SWCD office. See grassed waterways & NRCS.
Most weeks we can be on-site for an estimate the next day. Emergency work — washouts, storm damage — even faster.
No. Charleston is 12 miles away — basically local. One straight number on the estimate.
Yes — Charleston, Mattoon, Oakland, Lerna, Humboldt, Ashmore, the EIU campus area, and rural Coles County.
We work with property owners and contractors in the campus area for excavation, hauling, and demolition jobs.
Rock driveway installs and repairs are the volume in Coles County. Excavation, pond work, and culvert installs round it out.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.
"Excellent service. Very personal. Used twice on two different projects. Going to use for the third. Highly recommended."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Charleston and the surrounding county regularly.
We're 12 miles away. 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.
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