Kendall County
A two-person quarry belonging to a nine-site company
The Amrize Kendall Co. Quarry is a surface crushed-limestone operation carrying 2 employees on the federal mine register. Its operator, Amrize Mid-America Inc., holds nine rows across this state — at Elburn, Joliet, McHenry, Morris, North Aurora, North Utica, Rosiclare, South Elgin and here — recording 195 employees between them.
Kendall County holds two recorded freight rows in total: this quarry at 2, and Central Limestone Company’s operation at Morris at 15, about 7.7 miles away. Seventeen recorded employees for a whole county.
Source: MSHA mine records, checked 2026-08-22.
Two people on the register is not two people on the road
Those two employees are a headcount of who works the site. It does not count the hauliers who come and go through the gate, and the register has no field for them at all. So a small headcount is not evidence of a quiet road; it is evidence of nothing about the road either way. Central Limestone Company, 7.7 miles off at Morris, records 15 and works the same way.
It also means the trucks around this gate are owned in ones and twos across the surrounding townships rather than out of a yard. Which is exactly the situation this page exists for.
This row is placed by the register’s own town field rather than by a measured distance, so no distance from the village is stated. The quarry is in this ground; the record does not say how far out.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
Crushed limestone off a small surface quarry rides in dump bodies and on aggregate trailers, generally hired in rather than owned on site, and the same roads carry farm trucks through a county with only two recorded freight sites on them — this one and Central Limestone Company’s at Morris, 7.7 miles off. That is a fact about the records in Kendall 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.
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 Amrize quarry, over towards Morris or Sandwich, or nowhere near any of it, we come to you. We buy across Kendall County and well past 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.