We buy trucks in Mitchell

The MITCHELL yard is worked by the Alton & Southern Railway, and its recorded coordinate lies 0.65 miles from the Mitchell centroid. It is one of ten rail yards inside Madison County, and those ten carry six different carriers between them — Norfolk Southern on five, then Alton & Southern, Kansas City Southern, the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, Port Harbor Railroad and Union Pacific on one apiece.

Six carriers inside one county is an interchange pattern, not a line-haul one. What crosses a dock here is as likely to be moving between two railroads as heading out of the region, and that shapes the truck work around it: short, repeated, local.

That 0.65 miles, worked by the Alton & Southern Railway, is measured to a coordinate lying outside any incorporated place. Mitchell is simply the nearest place that holds a page, so the attachment is a nearest-place fallback rather than a statement that the yard is in the village.

The coordinate itself is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed gate, which is how all 2,459 rail-yard rows in this data were built. For a yard strung out along a mile of track that mean lands somewhere in the middle of it, so treat 0.65 miles as the distance to the middle of the yard, not to its entrance.

Ten yards and six carriers in one county means drayage, transfer and local delivery rather than long line-haul, so day cabs and yard-capable tractors do a lot of the work between the Norfolk Southern yards, the Terminal Railroad Association interchange at Madison and the rest of Madison County, alongside the dump trucks the two crushed-stone rows and two sand-and-gravel rows put on the road. That is a fact about sixteen recorded sites, 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.