We buy trucks in Bartonville

Three rail-yard rows attach to Bartonville under three different carriers — Union Pacific, the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway and the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad.

Only one of the three has its coordinate inside the village, 0.87 miles from the centroid. The other two fall inside Peoria city, which holds its own page, and both carry names — a street and a junction — that do not identify the city containing them. That is worth saying plainly rather than implying three yards sit in a village this size.

That naming problem is the interesting part. A yard called after a street or a junction tells you nothing about which municipality it stands in, which is exactly how rows end up attached to the nearest place holding a page rather than to the place containing them.

For anyone driving it, the distinction is administrative. Work running out of a junction 1.47 miles away is the same work whether the sign at the gate says Peoria County or not — short local legs between three carriers.

So day cabs and flatbeds fit three carriers inside two miles of Peoria County, the Toledo, Peoria & Western yard 0.87 miles out among them. That is a fact about the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad and its two neighbours, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Dump trucks, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are everywhere, Bartonville 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 by the end of the week. That’s what we’re here for.

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 knowing 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.

One more number from the same code decides whether a title gets branded. Under 625 ILCS 5/3-117.1(b)(1) a vehicle is salvage once an insurance company pays a total loss claim on it, with two carve-outs: hail damage alone, where it does not affect operational safety, and any vehicle nine model years of age or older, which the registered owner may keep by agreement with the insurer. That second one is a right to ask rather than something the law does on its own. Subsection (b)(1.1) sets a separate test for self-insured companies — salvage where the repair cost, labour included, would come to more than 70% of what the vehicle was worth undamaged.