We buy trucks in Morris

Central Limestone Company records 15 employees on the federal mine register, and the row attaches to Morris, the Grundy County seat.

Its own county string and the reverse-geocode of its coordinate both read Kendall, though. The operation is in Kendall County just over the line from the city it attaches to — which is the benign form of a county-versus-city mismatch rather than a mistake in the data.

That distinction matters on paper and almost nowhere else. A truck loading at Central Limestone Company and delivering into Morris crosses a county boundary and notices nothing, because a boundary is not a road condition.

It does mean the work here is a short shuttle rather than a long haul: stone loaded just outside Grundy County and dropped inside it, several turns a day, on the same few miles of road each time.

So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the shapes that fit a 15-employee limestone operation on the Kendall County side. That is a fact about where the stone is, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and pickups are everywhere, Grundy County included, and the offer is made the same way on any of them.

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.