We buy trucks in Dupo

The federal mine register records 26 employees at the Falling Springs Quarry and 18 at the operation recorded as Dupo Plant #9. The state transport department’s approved producer list adds a third and a fourth name within a mile — one a mile north-east, one half a mile south-east — so the state names three quarry operations in one small town.

A Union Pacific rail yard sits 0.39 miles from the centroid, closer in than almost anything in this lane.

That cluster sits in the American Bottom, opposite St. Louis, and it is the geography that matters most for a truck here. The Falling Springs Quarry and its neighbours sell into a Missouri metropolitan market, so a loaded trip crosses the Mississippi as a matter of routine.

Apportioned registration is normal on that kind of work. It also means the intra-tandem limit and the municipal-ordinance ceiling in St. Clair County stop at the state line while the truck does not — and Missouri’s rules were not researched for this page, so we are not going to summarise them for you.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the local shape, three operations deep in St. Clair County with the Falling Springs Quarry the largest of them. That is a fact about the bluffs, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Dupo 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.