We buy trucks in Monmouth

The Monmouth Pit is a surface crushed-limestone operation carrying 3 employees on the federal mine register, and its operator of record is Mill Creek Mining, Inc. There is a Mill Creek in this state, in Union County at the far southern end, and nothing read for this page connects the two. A company name is not a location.

Warren County holds two crushed-stone rows and 5 employees across both. The other is Valley Plant #7 at St. Augustine, run by River Stone Group Inc with 2 employees, about 19.5 miles away.

The pit’s attachment to Monmouth is what the node list calls a source-city match: the mine register’s own town field says Monmouth, and that is the whole of the evidence. No centroid distance is recorded for it, and none is stated here.

That matters because the register’s town field is a mailing convention as much as a geography — it is the same field that names Springville for a plant recorded as Jonesboro. So the pit is somewhere in this ground; exactly where, this page does not claim to know. What is recorded plainly is the operator, Mill Creek Mining, Inc, and the 3 employees against its name.

Two pits and 5 recorded employees across a whole county is a small stone industry, and small pits load the same dump bodies and aggregate trailers the big ones do — they just load fewer of them. Around here that sits alongside farm trucks and grain hauling, which the records do not cover at all — the only other stone gate inside 25 miles is the Valley Plant, 19.5 miles off, and the only yard is at Galesburg. 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.