One row in the county
A river yard, and the depot up the road
The SAVANNA rail yard is the only row this dataset holds for Carroll County. Its coordinate is recorded 0.6 miles from the town centre and resolves as inside the place — closer in than most rail-yard rows in this state manage.
What moves through it could not be determined from any source read for this batch, and we are not going to invent a commodity for it. The coordinate is the mean of a track polyline’s vertices rather than a surveyed point, as every rail-yard row in this dataset is.
Sources: the city-pages node list and USDOT rail data, checked 2026-08-24.
The nearest neighbour is a former depot
That yard is not the only large site on this stretch. The Savanna Depot Act installation is 14.00 miles north-west at Hanover, in Jo Daviess County — a military-installation row rather than a working industrial one, and the only thing of that scale anywhere near. South, the CLINTON RD yard at Fulton is 16.69 miles.
Past those two it is a long way to anything. The Hahn Quarry Products dimension-stone operation at Scales Mound is 24.43 miles north, the Alliance Materials Emerson Quarry 27.04 miles south-east, and Stagecoach Trails Limestone 28.65 miles north. Nothing inside fourteen miles except the river.
That spacing is the fact about this town. A truck kept here does general and farm work over real distances rather than short quarry shuttles, and it accumulates road miles the way a long-haul truck does rather than turns the way a pit truck does.
On a truck that has done road miles rather than pit turns, read the driveline and the suspension rather than the box. Different work, different wear.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So there is no single local truck type to point at, and we are not going to make one up. Carroll County records one row, the Savanna Depot Act site is 14.00 miles north-west and the Hahn Quarry Products operation 24.43 miles north. We buy whatever is actually in the yard.
Day cabs, dump trucks, flatbeds, farm trucks, 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.
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, and with the nearest neighbouring site 14.00 miles north-west in Jo Daviess County that question deserves a straight answer. 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 — out here the remote route is a real option, not a fallback. Here, 16.69 miles south at Fulton, or anywhere else in Carroll County — we buy across Hanover, Fulton and Sterling as well.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.