Elgin, IL: 18 ft Checkmate Predictor Gone in One Morning

An 18 ft Checkmate Predictor sat in a driveway in Elgin for three seasons. The go-fast paint had faded to a chalky white, and the outboard engine had seized solid. The single-axle trailer underneath it had rusted through in places, and the tires weren't holding air anymore. The owner had bought the ski boat years back when he still used it on weekends. Then life shifted. The boat stayed. By the time he called, he was tired of looking at it, and his neighbors were tired of looking at it too. The trailer was the real problem. It wouldn't roll, and the whole rig was wedged tight against the garage with barely two feet of clearance on the driver's side. We brought a winch rig and a tow dolly, leveraged the trailer up on blocks, and got the boat loaded without moving the garage door. Under an hour, start to finish. The hull went to the processor in Cook County. The trailer got scrapped. The driveway got its space back. Crews cover all of Cook County: Chicago, Proviso, Maine, Hanover, Orland, Elk Grove. We pick up same week most of the time, depending on where you're calling from and what we've got scheduled. A lot of Elgin calls come in late fall when people move boats out of storage for the season, or early spring when they're moving them back in. That's when the schedule fills up fastest, so if you're in that window, call early.