We buy trucks in Mill Creek

The plant nearest here is on the federal mine register as the JONESBORO PLANT, worked by Shawnee Stone LLC — crushed limestone, a surface operation, 8 employees. Its coordinate attaches to Mill Creek at 2 miles by nearest centroid, and the register’s own nearest-town field names Springville instead.

Three town names for one gate, and none of them is wrong: they are answers to three different questions. For a truck none of it matters. The gate is where the coordinate is, and that is a couple of miles out of the village.

Anna Quarries Inc sits on the same register at its own coordinate, 81 feet from the Jonesboro Plant’s and on an identical latitude, carrying 20 employees. Two readings fit that equally well — one working recorded twice under two operator names, or two workings sharing a face — and nothing read for this page settles which. Neither is adopted.

What the pair does settle is the size of the recorded stone here. Union County carries two crushed-stone rows and 28 employees between them, and both coordinates land within a hundred feet of each other, which is not what a county-wide figure usually looks like.

Crushed limestone leaves a pit in dump bodies and on aggregate trailers, and with Shawnee Stone working Jonesboro, Buncombe and Cypress inside about 25 miles, the runs off these gates are short and repeated rather than long-haul. Anna Quarries works its own face 81 feet from the Jonesboro gate. That is a fact about four recorded plants in Union and Johnson counties, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere and are bought on exactly 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.