We buy trucks in Robinson

Two rows sit here and they are 0.52 miles apart: a liquid bulk terminal recorded under Marathon, and the ROBINSON rail yard, operated by the Indiana Rail Road. A terminal and a yard that close is a transloading arrangement — liquid off rail and onto road, or the other way about.

Crawford County records four rows in total, and half of them are these two. The other two are the PALESTINE yard 6.24 miles east and the Lawrence Gravel pit 6.90 miles north-east. That is the county’s entire recorded industrial base, and it fits inside seven miles.

The Indiana Rail Road is a short line, not a trunk carrier, and the commodities handled at the ROBINSON yard could not be determined from any source read for this batch — so we are not going to tell you what moves through it. The terminal is a different matter: liquid bulk is what it is recorded as, and liquid bulk means tank trucks.

A tank truck wears in places a dry-freight truck does not. The barrel, the pump, the hose reel and the valve gear all carry hours that never reach the odometer, and product residue is its own conversation. If you have a tanker to sell, tell us what it last carried and whether it has been cleaned — that is a normal question here, not an awkward one.

One thing we will not state either way: the record for this yard says in one place that the coordinate sits inside the town and in another that it lies outside any incorporated place. Those cannot both be right, so we have left the claim out rather than pick the convenient one. The 1.14 miles from the yard coordinate to the town is recorded either way, as is the 6.24 miles east to the other Crawford County yard at Palestine and the 6.90 miles north-east to the Lawrence Gravel pit.

So tank trucks and day cabs are the local shape, with a Marathon-recorded terminal and the Indiana Rail Road yard 0.52 miles apart, two of the four rows Crawford County records. That is a fact about the register, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Dump trucks, 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.