We buy trucks in Mount Olive

The Mennel Milling Company runs a flour mill whose coordinate lies 0.28 miles from the centroid — inside the place, not near it, which is unusual in this data and makes the attachment a measurement rather than a fallback. The mill is recorded as taking wheat.

It is the only recorded freight site in Macoupin County. The next one in any direction is the Deer Run coal mine at Hillsboro, 14.6 miles off in Montgomery County. So the freight geography here is one gate and a lot of farm road.

The draw radius carried against the Mennel Milling Company here is 150 miles, and it is flagged as estimated rather than measured — a modelled figure for how far a mill pulls wheat by truck, not something anybody surveyed. Treat it as an order of magnitude.

What the direction tells you is more useful than the number. A mill is a destination for farm trucks and hopper rigs at harvest and a source of loads the rest of the year, so the vehicles around it are not the ones around a quarry. Grain bodies, hoppers and the tractors that pull them, plus whatever the town itself runs.

So the truck work here is grain-shaped rather than stone-shaped: hopper rigs and farm trucks into one gate in the middle of town, on a draw the records put in the order of 150 miles. That is a fact about one recorded mill in Macoupin County, 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.