Ogle County
A quarry named for one village and measured against another
The Fairdale Quarry is a surface crushed-limestone operation worked by Wagner Aggregate, Inc, carrying 3 employees on the federal mine register. The row is named for Fairdale and attaches here by nearest centroid at 2.68 miles, which is the honest way round: the name came from the register, the distance came from the coordinate.
Ogle County carries seven recorded freight sites and 56 employees across the four that report a headcount. The largest of those four by recorded headcount is the Oregon Plant, a Covia Solutions sandstone operation with 42 — three-quarters of the county’s counted workforce at one gate.
Source: MSHA mine records and the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-22.
A three-person quarry and a forty-two-person plant are different customers
Wagner Aggregate’s three and Covia’s forty-two are both in Ogle County and both send stone out by road, but they are not the same operation seen twice. A quarry that size runs a couple of trucks and hires the rest in; a plant that size keeps a fleet and a shop.
Headcount does not predict tonnage, and this page does not claim it does. What it does predict, reasonably well, is whether the trucks on site belong to the site — and that is the difference between selling one truck and selling out of a yard.
Rochelle, 16 miles southwest, adds a Union Pacific yard, an intermodal ramp and a transload centre to the same county. The stone and the boxes do not share a road pattern.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
Crushed limestone off a three-person quarry moves in dump bodies and on aggregate trailers, mostly hired in, while sandstone off the Covia Solutions plant at Oregon and containers off the Union Pacific ramp at Rochelle, 16 miles southwest, put day cabs and tractors on the same Ogle County roads. That is a fact about seven 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.
We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it. A missing bumper is fine.
Illinois law
What the state lets a truck carry
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.
Source: Illinois General Assembly, 625 ILCS 5/15-111 and 5/3-117.1. Checked 2026-08-23.
Questions we get asked
- Does it have to run?No. We buy complete trucks. If the engine, transmission, doors, rear ends, drive shafts, wheels or anything under the hood have been removed, we can’t buy it — but a truck that doesn’t start and is otherwise all there is fine. A missing bumper is fine.
- What about the title?We need a title — unless the truck is old enough that it never had one. If yours is lost, a replacement is an $18 counter transaction. If there has never been one, there is a bonded route.
- Do you come out this far?Yes. Whether you’re out by the Fairdale Quarry, over towards Rochelle or Byron, or nowhere near any of it, we come to you. We buy across Ogle County and the ground around it — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.