Kane County
One company works three of the county’s five recorded sites
Amrize Conco Western Stone is an underground crushed-limestone operation recording 25 employees. Its operator, Amrize Mid-America Inc., also works the Elburn Sand & Gravel pit at 30 and The R S & D Mine at South Elgin at 21 — three of the five recorded freight sites in Kane County, and 76 of the 82 employees the county’s records account for.
The other two rows are small gravel pits, at Hampshire and Hoffman Estates, with 3 employees each. So the recorded aggregate industry of this county is very largely one company working three faces.
Source: MSHA mine records, checked 2026-08-22.
Three sites, one operator, and a fleet that moves between them
Two of those three are underground workings and one is a surface sand-and-gravel pit, which is two different methods under one operator inside one county. Equipment that suits a ramp and a fixed face is not equipment that suits a spreading pit, so Amrize Mid-America is running two kinds of fleet inside about 12 miles of each other — the Elburn pit 9.7 miles off, The R S & D Mine at South Elgin 12 miles.
That concentration is a fact about the records rather than about the market. Nothing read for this page establishes tonnage, market share or who hauls for whom, and none of that is claimed. What can be said is where the recorded work is.
The register places this row by its own town field rather than by a measured distance, so no distance from the village centre is stated here.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
Underground stone and pit gravel both leave on dump bodies and aggregate trailers, and the BNSF yard at Eola and the Union Pacific yard at West Chicago, a few miles either side, put day cabs and drayage tractors on the same roads. That is a fact about five recorded sites in Kane County and the yards next to them, 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 alongside the Amrize workings, over towards Batavia or Montgomery, or nowhere near any of it, we come to you. We buy across Kane County, and in Aurora, Batavia and West Chicago as well — getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.