We buy trucks in South Beloit

Two rows sit here. A construction sand and gravel pit operated by Bluff City Materials records 3 employees on the federal mine register, and the WEST rail yard sits 1.50 miles from it. Both resolve as inside the place, at 0.97 and 0.98 miles from the centre — unusually tight for this dataset.

A gravel pit and a rail head that close is a transloading arrangement in practice whether or not anyone calls it one. Aggregate can leave by road or by rail from within a mile and a half of the same ground.

Neither of those is large. Winnebago County records six rows and only three report a headcount, adding to 8 people between them — this pit’s 3 among them. The N-TRAK Group Rockton Rock Quarry is 4.28 miles south-west with a single recorded employee. These are small, closely spaced operations rather than one big plant.

The state line runs right along the top of this town, and that is a real fact about the trucking here rather than a piece of scenery. Work crosses it constantly, so where a truck is titled and where it actually earned its hours are often two different states. If that applies to yours, say so — it changes nothing about the offer, but it is the kind of thing better said early than discovered late.

Southward the ground opens up: two Rockford yards at 14.33 and 14.64 miles, the VCNA Prairie Rockford Quarry 18.59 miles, the Beverly Materials Belvidere Quarry 19.17 miles.

So gravel trucks and dump trucks are the local shape, with Bluff City Materials here and the N-TRAK Group Rockton Rock Quarry 4.28 miles south-west. That is a fact about Winnebago County, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Day cabs, 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.