St. Clair County
Two records about a hundred feet apart, filed to two different towns
The Rose Lake yard is operated by CSX Transportation and its recorded coordinate lies 0.45 miles from the Fairmont City centroid, inside the place. A CSX intermodal ramp is recorded 0.02 miles from it — about a hundred feet — and that one is filed to East St. Louis, which holds its own page.
Same carrier, effectively the same piece of ground, two towns on the paperwork. Neither record is wrong about where it is. They disagree about which page they belong to, and 0.02 miles is not a distance at which that question has a physical answer.
Sources: the city-pages node list, its rail-yard coordinate note and the FCC census area lookup, checked 2026-08-24.
The two radii filed on them differ by seventy-five miles
That is the real difference between the pair, and it has nothing to do with geography. The Rose Lake yard carries the slice-wide 75 miles, flagged as an estimate and applied to every yard in the set. The ramp carries 150 miles with a stated basis: past that an over-the-road move competes with the train.
One of those numbers describes this place and one describes a category, and it is worth knowing which is which before reading either as a claim about how far a truck out of here actually went. What can be said plainly is that a container ramp states road traffic outright, where a yard only implies it.
Ramp work is loaded out and loaded back when the day goes well. Steadier than yard work, and it shows.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So day cabs and road tractors are the ordinary shape around the Rose Lake yard and the container ramp 0.02 miles from it, with flatbeds and box trucks on the industrial side of St. Clair County. That is a read off two records, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Dump trucks, straight trucks, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Fairmont City 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, whichever of the two towns the record picked. 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 — or we can buy it remotely and arrange the tow, whichever is less trouble. Whether you’re alongside the Rose Lake gates or nowhere near them, we come to you. We buy across St. Clair County, and in East St. Louis, Collinsville and Granite City 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.