We buy trucks in Havana

Three records are attached to this town and they are three different kinds of freight. There is the rail yard, run by the Illinois & Midland Railroad, whose coordinate falls outside any incorporated place 1.98 miles from the centroid. There is the Havana Regional Port, 2.82 miles from the yard, filed with a 100-mile ring. And there is Otter Creek Sand & Gravel (CS-68), run by Central Stone Company, with 3 employees on the federal mine record.

That last one is 8.38 miles off and is recorded in Fulton County, while the town itself is in Mason County. The river is the boundary through this stretch, so a pit attached to this page by its nearest town is filed under a different county’s name — which is worth knowing before anyone matches paperwork against a map.

That yard carries an oddity of its own. The row sits 1.98 miles out in Mason County and is named with a doubled n against the spelling of the town it is attached to, which in this data set is usually the start of a problem — a misspelled row is how the same facility ends up recorded twice under two names and counted twice by anything reading the file.

Here it does not. A check across the whole slice found no other row under either spelling, so this one names a single facility and creates no phantom duplicate. The Otter Creek pit 8.38 miles away is a separate record of a separate thing, not the same yard under another name. It is the rare case where the typo is harmless, and we would rather say which kind it is than leave a reader assuming the worse one.

So sand and gravel haulers are the ordinary shape around Central Stone Company and a river port, with farm trucks and flatbeds across the Mason County ground and dump trucks working the pits over in Fulton 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, Havana 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.