Seven of the county’s fifteen
Half the county’s recorded quarry hands work here
The Junction Quarry, operated by Callender Construction Company, records 7 employees on the federal mine register. Pike County holds three rows in this dataset — two crushed-stone quarries and a liquid bulk terminal — and the two quarries between them record 15 employees. Seven of those fifteen are here.
The other quarry is the Florence Plant, recorded as CS33 and run by Central Stone Company, 8.71 miles south-east. The Meredosia liquid bulk terminal is 9.78 miles east. That is the whole of what this county records, inside ten miles of each other.
Sources: MSHA mine records and the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-23.
One operator, two faces, a county line apart
That operator does not stop at one face. Callender Construction Company also runs the Thomas Quarry, 22.99 miles south-east at Hillview in Scott County. So the operator here works two faces twenty-three miles apart across a county line, and a truck on its books may well see both in a week.
After that the ground opens up. The next stone is at Quincy, 29.23 miles west, where Central Stone Company runs a portable plant and Huber Carbonates has two operations; the Beardstown rail yard is 22.19 miles north-east and the Roodhouse yard 29.79 miles south-east. Twenty to thirty miles between loading points is longer than the usual stone shuttle, and it puts real road miles on a truck that a pit-to-town operation would never see.
Loaded out and empty back over that distance, several times a day, on and off unpaved ground at one end. It uses a truck up faster than the mileage suggests and it does it to the frame and the box, not just the driveline.
Springs, pins and body mounts are where stone work shows first. Have a look at those before you decide what you have got.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So dump trucks and aggregate haulers are the local shape, with the Junction Quarry here, the Central Stone Company Florence Plant nine miles south-east and the Thomas Quarry twenty-three miles on. That is a fact about Pike County, 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.
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 a counter transaction at the Secretary of State. If there has never been one, there is a bonded route. Those are the three cases people actually arrive with.
- Do you come out this far?Yes. We come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, we buy it remotely and arrange the tow, or you drive it to us. The Junction Quarry or the Central Stone Company plant 8.71 miles south-east, it makes no difference to us. We buy across Florence, Meredosia and Beardstown as well, and getting to you is our problem, not yours.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.