We buy trucks in Milan

Two crushed-stone rows attach to Milan under two operators: an Allied Stone plant at 21 employees, run by RiverStone Group, and Mill Creek Mining at 9.

The state transport department’s approved producer list places Mill Creek Mining four miles south-east of the town and RiverStone Group north-east, and both agree with the rows. That is the third time in the Illinois set a state document has confirmed a node’s placement rather than questioning it, after North Utica and Emerson.

That confirmation is a small thing that carries weight. Most of the cross-checks in this research turn up a mismatch to explain — a row named for one town sitting in another, a county string disagreeing with a coordinate. Two independent records agreeing, as they do for Mill Creek Mining, is rarer.

It means the figures on this page sit on firmer ground than most in Rock Island County, which is something to say when so much else in this lane comes with a caveat attached. What the two operations actually ship, and where, is a separate question neither record answers.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the local shape, split between RiverStone Group and Mill Creek Mining across Rock Island County. That is a fact about the two of them, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Milan included, and are bought on the same terms.

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 by the end of the week. 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 knowing 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.

One more number from the same code decides whether a title gets branded. Under 625 ILCS 5/3-117.1(b)(1) a vehicle is salvage once an insurance company pays a total loss claim on it, with two carve-outs: hail damage alone, where it does not affect operational safety, and any vehicle nine model years of age or older, which the registered owner may keep by agreement with the insurer. That second one is a right to ask rather than something the law does on its own. Subsection (b)(1.1) sets a separate test for self-insured companies — salvage where the repair cost, labour included, would come to more than 70% of what the vehicle was worth undamaged.