We buy trucks in Salem

The SALEM rail yard is recorded 2.63 miles from the town centre by nearest-place fallback. Marion County holds three rows in this dataset and every one of them is a rail yard — no quarry, no terminal, no mill.

What the SALEM yard handles could not be determined from any source read for this batch, so we are not going to guess at it. The coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed facility point, which is how every rail-yard row in this dataset is derived.

Those other two both sit at Centralia, about fourteen miles south-west: a BNSF yard 13.89 miles away and a Canadian National yard 15.49 miles. Two different carriers, two separate yards.

Here is a thing worth stating plainly, because it would be easy to double it. Both of those yards ALSO appear in this dataset a second time, filed under Clinton County and attached to the neighbouring towns — the BNSF pair 0.73 miles apart and the Canadian National pair 0.28 miles apart. Those are the same two yards recorded twice from different track segments, not four yards. Anyone counting rows rather than places would find five yards around here and be wrong by two.

So the honest picture is one rail head here and two more fourteen to sixteen miles south-west, in flat farm country with nothing else industrial recorded between them. The next quarry of any kind is the Keyesport sand and gravel pit 25.48 miles west, and the nearest coal is 36.80 miles south-east at Dahlgren.

So day cabs and farm trucks are the shape here rather than a dedicated aggregate fleet — Marion County records three rail yards and nothing else, and the Keyesport Sand & Gravel pit is 25.48 miles west. 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.