We buy trucks in Ohlman

The Pana Limestone Company operation records 16 employees on the federal mine register. It is the only row of any industrial type this dataset holds for Christian County — no rail yard, no terminal, no second quarry.

Sixteen people at a single limestone face is the whole of the recorded heavy trade here, and that shapes the truck fleet more than a bigger number in a busier county would. Where there is one gate, the trucks that serve it belong to a small number of people, and they tend to be kept a long time.

The operator is named for Pana, about ten miles south-east, while the coordinate resolves to Ohlman at 3.82 miles — nearest-centroid, not the operator’s own address. Both places are in Christian County and the county cross-check passes, so this is the benign form of a naming pattern that elsewhere in this dataset has put a plant in the wrong town altogether. We say it out loud because the name on the gate and the town on the map are not the same word here.

The nearest other faces are across the county line in Montgomery County: the Nokomis Quarry Co at 4.71 miles south-west and the Heidelberg Materials Nokomis Quarry at 5.57 miles south-west. Both are closer than the town the operation is named after. After that it thins out fast — the Deer Run coal prep plant is 16.04 miles south-west and the Deer Run Mine 21.45 miles.

So a truck working out of here crosses a county line before it reaches its second loading point. Short hops on county blacktop between farm ground, several turns a day, loaded out and empty back.

So dump trucks, aggregate haulers and farm trucks are the local shape, with the Pana Limestone Company the only recorded gate in Christian County and the Nokomis Quarry Co the nearest thing to it. That is a fact about the register, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere and are just as welcome, 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.