We buy trucks in Dixon

Two crushed-stone rows attach to Dixon, both under Renner Quarries: the Robbins Quarry at 2 employees, and an operation recorded as a portable plant at 2.

Those are small numbers and we are stating them as the recorded figures rather than as a description of the trade in Lee County. A two-employee record does not establish what a site is doing this year.

That second row is the interesting one, and it cannot be settled from what is available. Its name records a portable plant — a machine that moves between sites rather than a fixed operation with a gate like the Robbins Quarry.

In Texas four comparable machine-named rows were resolved against a compulsory state site register and every one turned out to be a fixed operation after all. Illinois publishes no equivalent register, so in Lee County the question stands open. Renner Quarries knows the answer; the records do not.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the shapes that fit two Renner Quarries rows in Lee County. That is a general read off a thin record rather than a strong local claim, and it is certainly not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Dixon included, and are bought on exactly the same terms.

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.