We buy trucks in Highland Park

Fort Sheridan was picked in the first BRAC round in 1989 and the Army closed the main post on 3 May 1993. Most of the property went to commercial developers, the original housing was refurbished and resold as a residential community, and about 90 acres are still worked as an Army Reserve base alongside a Navy housing development.

It is not on its own out here either. Inside the 50 miles filed against it sit 149 other records, and the three closest are all installations: GL Camp JPJ at 6.80 miles, Naval Station Great Lakes at 7.42 miles, and the closed air station at Glenview 8.27 miles off in Cook County. This is a corner of Lake County with a long military logistics history and a lot of it still standing.

That mix is worth pausing on, because the row in the node list carries a status of active and a Navy component, and on a post the Army shut in 1993 the easy reading is that the file is simply out of date. Here it is not so simple. An Army Reserve base on about 90 acres and Navy housing are both still on the ground, so the record is describing something real even while the main post is gone.

We are recording the tension rather than resolving it, because resolving it would mean asserting something neither source says. What follows for a truck either way is the same: the work in this part of Lake County is delivery, trades and service running against a dense suburban grid, not a base haul.

So box trucks and work trucks are the ordinary shape across this part of Lake County, with straight trucks on delivery routes and day cabs running the 10.98 miles out to the Waukegan yards. That is a read off the node list, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Road tractors, dump trucks, aggregate haulers, flatbeds, farm trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Highland Park 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.