Cut stone, not crushed
A dimension-stone quarry, which is a different trade
Hahn Quarry Products, Inc. records 3 employees on the federal mine register, and the commodity is recorded as dimension stone rather than crushed stone. That distinction is the whole of this page.
Dimension stone is cut in blocks and slabs to be used as stone — sills, caps, veneer, kerbing. Crushed stone is broken to a gradation and sold by the tonne. They need different trucks. Crushed aggregate goes in a tipping body; blocks and slabs go on a flatbed with chains and edge protection, and they get loaded by machine at the face and unloaded by machine at the other end.
Sources: MSHA mine records and the city-pages node list, checked 2026-08-23.
Three rows in the county, and they have nothing to do with each other
Those three are not a cluster. This quarry, the Stagecoach Trails Limestone crushed-stone operation 9.13 miles north-east, and the Savanna Depot Act installation 14.43 miles south — a dimension-stone pit, an aggregate pit and a military site, which is three separate trades rather than a district. Two of the three report a headcount and record 4 people between them.
The nearest rail head is the Savanna yard 24.43 miles south. After that the distances are serious: the Freeport yard 32.37 miles east, Fulton 40.61 miles south, the Emerson Quarry 49.70 miles south-east. This is the far north-west corner of the state and it reads like it.
So a flatbed kept here is doing long, heavy, secured loads over real distances rather than short turns. Chains, binders, corner protection and a deck that has had blocks dropped on it — that is the wear pattern, and it is not the one a dump truck shows.
On a stone flatbed, read the deck, the rub rails and the chain tie-downs. That is where cut stone leaves its mark.
Whatever you drive, the offer doesn’t change
So flatbeds are the local shape rather than tippers, with Hahn Quarry Products cutting dimension stone here and Stagecoach Trails Limestone crushing aggregate 9.13 miles north-east. That is a fact about this corner of the county, not a preference of ours. We buy both kinds.
Dump trucks, day cabs, farm trucks, 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, and this far out that is a fair question. 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. With the nearest rail head 24.43 miles south at Savanna and Hahn Quarry Products the only cut-stone operation near here, buying remotely and arranging the tow is often the easy route. We buy across Apple River, Hanover and Savanna as well.
- How do you pay?Cash or electronic payment, at pickup. That is the whole of it.