We buy trucks in Fairbury

Two crushed-stone rows attach to Fairbury and both are run by the same operator: the McDowell Quarry at 6 employees and the Metz Quarry at 1.

That single-employee record is the sixth of its kind in the Illinois set. One employee does not establish what a site is currently doing, and there is no per-site state register to check it against, so the Metz Quarry is recorded here and nothing is built on it.

That shared ownership is the useful part. Two pits under one operator in Livingston County means material can move between the McDowell Quarry and the Metz Quarry and out to the same customers, so a truck is more likely to work a circuit than to sit at one gate.

It is short-haul stone work either way — loaded out, empty back, several turns a day. The county carries other stone operations too, so a driver here is rarely far from a loading point.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the local shape, working the McDowell Quarry and the Metz Quarry in Livingston County. That is a fact about the two pits, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Farm trucks, grain hauls, day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks and pickups are here as well, 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.