Henry County
A quarry on the Illinois side of a two-state city
The federal mine register records 18 employees at the Cleveland Quarry Plant #31, a surface limestone operation run by the RiverStone Group. The haul radius filed against it is 35 miles, from freight cost per ton and flagged as an estimate.
Colona sits in the Quad Cities, which straddle the Mississippi. So that radius crosses a state line, and a truck based here can work Illinois and Iowa inside a single day without doing anything unusual.
Sources: MSHA Mine Data Retrieval System and the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-23.
A state line in the working day changes the plates
That crossing is the part that turns up in the paperwork. Where a truck works both sides of the Quad Cities in a day, apportioned registration stops being an exception and becomes the ordinary way to plate it.
So a truck sold out of Henry County may have been plated apportioned rather than for one state alone, and that is something to have in front of you before you sell rather than after. Iowa’s own rules we did not research, and nothing on this page claims anything about them.
Two-state work means two states’ paperwork. Find the registration before a buyer asks for it.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the ordinary shape around the Cleveland Quarry Plant in Henry County, with day cabs and flatbeds running the Quad Cities either side of the river. That is a read off the mine record and the geography, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Farm trucks, grain hauls, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Colona 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 on this side of the river. 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. Whether you’re alongside the quarry or nowhere near it, we come to you. We buy across Henry County, and in Geneseo, Silvis and East Moline 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.