Jackson County
A stone quarry and a coal prep plant, at a village this size
Two industrial rows attach to Campbell Hill. The federal mine register records 21 employees at Kinkaid Stone Company, a surface limestone operation. Half a mile out, the Creek Paum coal preparation plant is recorded to Knight Hawk Coal at 550 raw feed tons, 0.62 miles from the village centroid.
They are different businesses with the same requirement: everything either of them makes leaves on a truck. The stone row carries a 35 miles haul radius from freight cost per ton; the coal row carries 100 miles, because a prep plant’s product goes to a loadout or a terminal rather than to a job down the road.
Sources: MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System and the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-24.
No interstate, and no relief for not having one
Those hauls run on two-lane road, and Illinois does not adjust for that. Jackson County has no interstate, and the state provides no off-interstate weight relief — so a two-lane state route here carries the same 34,000 lb tandem limit as an expressway does.
That is not how every state handles it. Georgia and Kentucky give an aggregate hauler a variance or a tolerance once it is off the interstate; Illinois behaves like Texas and gives neither. For a truck working out of Jackson County the legal load is the same on the worst road as on the best one.
Same limit, worse surface. That is where the springs and the frame take it.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the ordinary shape around a 21-employee quarry, with coal haulers on the same roads where the Creek Paum plant is concerned, all of it on two-lane route across Jackson County. That is a read off two records, 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, Campbell Hill 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 are the numbers, and off the interstate they do not bend. 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 out here the straightforward version is often the remote one: we buy it, we arrange the tow, and nobody needs to be standing in the yard on the day. If you would rather we came, we come to you — the quarry, the Creek Paum plant, or a gate nowhere near either. We buy across Jackson County, and in Ava, Steeleville and Murphysboro 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.