We buy trucks in Godfrey

Twin Rivers Stone runs the Godfrey Plant, a surface limestone operation, and the federal mine register records 7 employees at it. The haul radius filed against it is 35 miles, taken from freight cost per ton and flagged as an estimate.

Inside that ring the node list holds 84 records of any kind, and they do not split the way the state line would suggest: 43 are in Missouri and 41 in Illinois. The nearest of the lot is Ardent Mills at 7.77 miles, across the river; the nearest on this side is Bluff City Mine at 8.73 miles, here in Madison County.

That ring sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Illinois, which is normally the point at which some of a quarry’s output stops travelling by road. Here it does not. A seven-person operation is too small to justify a barge loadout of its own, so the whole of what it produces leaves on wheels.

It is worth saying because the opposite inference is the easy one. Water nearby looks like it should mean fewer trucks, and sometimes it does — but only above a size this plant is well under. So the truck count around Twin Rivers Stone is set by the 35 miles and the seven people, and not by the two rivers.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the ordinary shape around Twin Rivers Stone and its seven people, with flatbeds and farm trucks across the rest of a Madison County ring 35 miles wide. That is a read off the mine register, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Godfrey 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. 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 checking 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.