We buy trucks in Roodhouse

The ROODHOUSE rail yard is the single row this dataset holds for the whole of Greene County. No quarry, no terminal, no mill, no second yard. Its coordinate is recorded 0.9 miles from the town centre by nearest-place fallback.

We are not going to dress that up. What the yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this batch, and the coordinate itself is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed facility point — every rail-yard row in this dataset is derived that way. So take the position as a good indication of where the tracks are, and nothing more.

Because the county records nothing else, the honest picture is the one drawn from outside it. The Thomas Quarry, run by Callender Construction Company, is 8.48 miles west at Hillview in Scott County. After that the nearest stone is the Central Stone Company Florence Plant 21.16 miles north-west, then the Calhoun Quarry 25.54 miles south-west and the Meredosia liquid bulk terminal 25.97 miles north-west. Beardstown’s yard is 34.83 miles north.

Twenty-five to thirty-five miles between loading points is not shuttle work. It is farm and general haulage ground with one rail head in it, and a truck kept here is more likely to be a farm truck, a general dump or a day cab doing mixed work than a dedicated aggregate hauler.

That also changes how selling works out here, which is the next section’s business rather than this one’s.

So there is no single local truck type to point at here, and we are not going to invent one. Greene County records one row, the Thomas Quarry is 8.48 miles west in Scott County, and the Central Stone Company plant is 21.16 miles north-west. We buy whatever is actually in the yard.

Dump trucks, farm trucks, day cabs, flatbeds, box trucks, work trucks and pickups are all 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.