Jo Daviess County
The installation on this record is closed, and it was an Army depot
The record attached here is the Savanna Depot, an Army installation, and the node list carries its status as closed. Its coordinate is taken from a polygon centroid rather than a gate or an address, and it lies 3.74 miles out from the village centroid. The county, Jo Daviess, is reverse-geocoded from that same coordinate and is only as good as it is.
The ring filed against it is 50 miles, and 25 records of any kind fall inside — 18 in Iowa and 7 in Illinois. The nearest is the Savanna rail yard at 14.00 miles, in Carroll County, followed by Hahn Quarry Products at 14.43 miles, back inside this county.
Source: the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-24. County derived from the row’s own coordinate.
The reason that ring is 50 miles wide no longer describes anything operating
Those 50 miles were not measured here either. The basis recorded against a military row is that base support and contractor traffic is local, which is a sensible rule for a working installation — and this one is closed, so the traffic the radius was reasoning about is historical rather than current.
So we are not going to tell you there is depot work here, because the record says there is not. What is actually inside a reasonable drive is farm ground, a rail yard at 14.00 miles and quarry ground in Carroll County and this one. That is a thinner map than the radius implies, and it is the honest version of it.
Gravel section roads and river bluffs. Frames and suspensions take the beating.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So farm trucks and grain haulers are the ordinary shape across Jo Daviess County, with dump trucks and flatbeds on the quarry ground and the run down to Carroll County. That is a read off the node list, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.
Day cabs, road tractors, box trucks, straight trucks, aggregate haulers, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Hanover 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.
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. 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.
It is worth a comparison, because neighbouring states do not all read the same way. Ohio allows farm vehicles a 7.5% allowance under ORC 5577.042, and Indiana allows farm commodities 10% under IC 9-20-4-2. Illinois gives neither. A truck that runs harvest loads legally over the line does not get the same latitude once it is back on this side.
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 a counter transaction at the Secretary of State. 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?We do — and out this far it is often simplest to buy it remotely and arrange the tow, which means nobody is driving the bluff roads twice. We buy across Jo Daviess County and into Carroll County, and in Galena, Elizabeth and Savanna — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.