We buy trucks in LaSalle

The LaSalle Quarry and Mill is carried as a facility operation working cement, MSHA identifier 1100003, operator of record Illinois Cement Company, and it reports 123 employees. Against the two- and nine-person pits elsewhere in this lane that is a different kind of operation altogether, and it does not stand alone.

Inside eight miles sit four more extraction sites: the Amrize Utica Stone Plant at 3.23 miles, the Vermilion Plant at 5.89, Northern White Sand at 6.34 and the Troy Grove Stone Quarry at 7.49. The Illinois Valley Port is 8.13 miles off. The 150-mile ring around it holds 468 records, 274 of them in this state.

That row carries a data flag worth explaining, because it looks like an error and is not one. The central county cross-check fires on it: the row records its county as "La Salle" while its own coordinate reverse-geocodes to "LaSalle County". Same county, same place, differing by a single space, and the verdict recorded against it is unclassified review. It fires on the Amrize Utica Stone Plant 3.23 miles away for the identical reason.

Every row in this county fires the same flag for the same reason, and it is left flagged rather than quietly corrected — the node list is read only, and guessing at a fix is how a string-formatting artefact turns into an asserted fact. We are telling you because a page that reports a flag without saying which kind it is would be leaving you to assume the worse one.

So cement tankers and dump trucks are the ordinary shape around Illinois Cement Company and the quarries beside it, with aggregate haulers and flatbeds across the rest of a ring that runs to 150 miles. 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, farm trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, LaSalle 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.