We buy trucks in Mendota

The record here is an ADM Milling Company flour mill, and its coordinate reverse-geocodes to LaSalle County. What is worth noticing is the ring filed against it: 150 miles, the same figure this data gives a cement plant, and more than four times what it gives a stone pit.

That is a grain-collection radius rather than a delivery one — a mill draws from the country around it, and the country around here is deep. Inside the ring sit 471 records across five states, 263 of them in Illinois. The two nearest are both industrial sand operations 6.37 miles off, Manley Bros. and the Troy Grove Plant, with the cement mill at LaSalle 15.78 miles away.

Those two directions are worth separating, because they wear a truck differently. A pit’s ring is mostly outbound — loaded out, empty back. A mill’s 150 miles is mostly inbound: grain trucks running loaded to the mill and empty home, from farms scattered across a large part of two or three states. The two sand plants 6.37 miles away run the other way round, loaded out.

It also means the fleet is seasonal in a way a quarry fleet is not. Grain haulers work hard over a short window and sit for much of the rest of the year, so a truck here can carry low annual mileage and still have had a demanding life. Sitting is its own kind of wear, and it is usually what prompts the call.

So grain haulers and farm trucks are the ordinary shape around a mill like this one, with flatbeds and dump trucks working the sand ground 6.37 miles off toward Troy Grove. 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, Mendota 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.