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30 miles south of Mattoon — a quick run down I-57 or Route 45. Full excavation, demolition, and site-work services across Effingham County.
📞 Call (217) 809-0779 Free EstimateEffingham sits 30 miles south of our shop in Mattoon — close enough that we run jobs back and forth all year. The county is a mix of farms, small towns, and the city of Effingham itself, and we work all of it.
Brohez Trucking LLC handles the full range of dirt and site work in Effingham — foundation excavation, basement digs, rock driveways for rural homes, demolition for redevelopment, pond cleanouts on family farms, and culvert installs at driveway entrances. If it involves moving earth, we've probably done one in Effingham County.
I-57 and Route 45 make Effingham a fast, easy haul from our base. The drive doesn't change our pricing or our schedule — Effingham jobs get the same attention as a job two miles from the shop.
Call (217) 809-0779 for a free on-site estimate anywhere in Effingham, Teutopolis, Altamont, Dieterich, Watson, Beecher City, or the surrounding rural areas.
All of our services are available in Effingham County.
Foundations, basements, drainage, septic, trenching, and site prep across Effingham County.
New crushed limestone driveway installs and repairs throughout Effingham.
Barns, garages, foundations, and structures torn down clean in Effingham and surrounding areas.
Brush, trees, fence rows, and stumps cleared from Effingham properties. Full scope on our land clearing page →
Fill dirt, topsoil, gravel, and rock delivered to Effingham. Spoils hauled off.
Farm pond and recreation pond cleanouts, restoration, and leak repair.
Driveway, field, and road culvert installs and replacements in Effingham County.
French drain installation in Effingham — 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 Effingham and surrounding areas. Soggy yards, standing water, and broken field tile fixed.
Trenching in Effingham 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 Effingham. Stripped, cut, compacted, ready for the slab crew.
Footing digs, basement excavation, crawl spaces, and pole barn footings across Effingham. Square corners, accurate grade, drainage tied in.
Single yard stumps to whole fence rows pulled or ground in Effingham. Holes backfilled, graded, ready for grass or fence.
Yard grading, driveway, lot, and finish grading in Effingham — 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 Effingham — 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.
Pond jobs come out of the Effingham area year after year — farm ponds, livestock water, and recreation ponds on acreage off the Little Wabash draws. If you're pricing a new one, what a pond costs to build depends far more on depth and where the spoil lands than on surface acres. For an existing pond that's gone shallow at the dam or lost its spillway, see farm pond repair.
In Effingham, that demolition includes barn demolition, grain bin removal, garage & shed teardown, 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 Effingham 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, grain bin, or garage teardown.
Brohez Trucking is a demolition contractor in Effingham, IL and across Effingham County — Teutopolis, Dieterich, Altamont, Beecher City, Watson, and the rural ground between them. Barns, machine sheds, grain bins, garages, mobile homes, and houses come down and go away; the slab and foundation come out if you want them out.
Effingham County has a lot of old dairy and hog barns that have outlived their use — those are a specialty. See barn demolition, grain bin removal, or the complete demolition services page. We walk it, scope it honest, and quote it free — call (217) 809-0779.
Effingham County ground is tighter and more rolling than the flat black dirt north of here, and that changes what goes wrong with tile. On the slopes you get runs that erode out at the low end and outlets that wash back into the bank; on the flat spots between, you get lines that settled out of grade years ago and now hold water instead of moving it. Both look the same from the road — a wet spot that never used to be there.
We handle drain tile repair across Effingham County: collapsed clay tile, crushed HDPE, root-plugged runs, failed risers and surface intakes, and outlet rebuilds. A blown outlet is the failure we get called on most, and it's also the cheapest fix relative to what it recovers — forty feet of pipe can bring a whole system back.
Repair and targeted lines — not pattern tile. See drain tile & field tile repair for the full picture, or drainage work in Effingham if the water is running on the surface. Free on-site estimate — (217) 809-0779.
Effingham has a few local excavation outfits and we get along with most of them. We're a different fit when you want one contractor for the whole job — dig, haul, and finish — without coordinating multiple crews.
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Real jobs from across central Illinois.
Effingham sits at the I-57 / I-70 crossroads — the "Crossroads of America," marked by the Cross at the Crossroads — about 25 miles southwest of Mattoon. We're up there a lot. The county seat, the surrounding farm country, the lakefront properties out at Lake Sara, and the heavy I-57 truck corridor mean a steady mix of residential, ag, lakeshore, and light-commercial excavation jobs.
Sub-areas we cover: Effingham, Teutopolis, Dieterich, Altamont, Beecher City, Mason, Watson, Montrose, and rural Effingham County. The whole county sits inside our normal radius.
Common Effingham-area jobs: rock and gravel driveway installs out toward Teutopolis and Dieterich, foundation digs and basement excavation in town, pole barn pads and ag building site prep on the surrounding farms, drainage tile work where the heavy clay holds water, pond construction and cleanout on rural acreages, and culvert installs along county roads. Effingham County is also a regular market for our NRCS grassed waterway work — we've coordinated with the Effingham SWCD office on practice 412 jobs. Township entrances south and east of Effingham see rusted-through metal pipe regularly — culvert replacement with the flowline re-cut, not just a new pipe in the old hole.
Routes: Route 45 south is the typical run from Mattoon — about 25 miles, 35 minutes with equipment. I-57 if we're heading further south or to the west side of the county.
No travel surcharge. Effingham jobs price the same as Mattoon. Mobilization is built into the estimate.
Worth a read first: what size driveway culvert you need, and plastic vs metal, and the best time to install field tile in central Illinois.
All of Effingham County and the bordering pieces. Specifically: Effingham, Teutopolis, Dieterich, Altamont, Beecher City, Mason, Watson, Montrose, and rural Effingham County.
Route 45 south for most jobs — 25 miles, about 35 minutes with equipment. I-57 when we're heading further south or to the west side of the county.
Yes — we're down here often. Effingham is 30 miles from our shop, well within our normal service radius.
No. Mobilization is built into the estimate. One straight number.
Yes. Teutopolis, Altamont, Dieterich, Watson, Beecher City, Shumway, Edgewood, Mason — all of Effingham County and the surrounding rural areas.
Most weeks within a few days. Emergency washouts and storm work move faster.
Rock driveways and excavation are the volume. Pond and culvert work fill in.
Yes — full liability and equipment coverage. Certificate of Insurance available on request.
"We hired Brohez Trucking LLC to demo a detached garage and do some additional road work. Levi was friendly and professional. He quickly provided us with a quote and was able to start the work right away. We are very satisfied with the work they did, and their pricing is very fair."
Mattoon, IL is roughly the center of our 60-mile service radius. We work Effingham 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.
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