Johnson County
One operator, three records, and a comma between them
The federal mine register records 20 employees at the Buncombe Plant, a surface limestone operation run by Shawnee Stone, LLC. The haul radius filed against it is 35 miles, taken from freight cost per ton and flagged as an estimate.
The same operator appears on two more southern Illinois rows as Shawnee Stone LLC, without the comma — the Cypress plant at 12.5 miles with 6 employees, and the Jonesboro plant at 17.5 miles with 8. One character is the whole difference between the two spellings, and the records were left unmerged rather than joined on a guess.
Sources: MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System, checked 2026-08-24.
Three stone records inside one haul radius
That is a filing question with a driving answer. Both of the other plants sit inside the 35 miles a stone haul travels from here, so somebody working out of Johnson County could have run for any of the three, and there is no reason the trucks would look alike.
It also means the local ring is one ring rather than three. Whether the records describe one company or two, the roads are the same roads — southern Illinois stone, loaded out of a pit onto two-lane route, and back empty for the next one.
If your truck hauled stone out of any of the three, the brakes and the driveline are where that shows.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the ordinary shape around a 20-employee stone plant in Johnson County, and the same holds at the other two Shawnee Stone records inside the ring. That is a read off the mine register, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Farm trucks, grain hauls, day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Buncombe 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.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine.
Illinois law
What the state lets a truck carry
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 something to check 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.
Source: Illinois General Assembly, 625 ILCS 5/15-111. Checked 2026-08-23.
Questions we get asked
- Does it have to run?No. We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it — but a truck that doesn’t start and is otherwise all there is fine. A missing bumper is fine.
- What about the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If yours is lost, a replacement is an $18 counter transaction. If there has never been one, there is a bonded route. Those are the three cases people actually arrive with.
- Do you come out this far?Yes — and if it suits you better we can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, so nobody has to be there on the day. Whether you’re alongside the Buncombe Plant or nowhere near it, we come to you. We buy across Johnson County — a good deal wider than the 35 miles the stone travels — and in Goreville, Vienna and Cypress as well — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.