We buy trucks in South Holland

The YARD CENTER rail yard resolves 1.21 miles from the town centre and inside the place. A second row, the intermodal side of the same name, sits 0.97 miles north and is attached to Dolton instead. A ramp filed against one town and its classification yard filed against the next is a recording artefact, not two separate facilities — worth saying so that nobody counts it twice.

Cook County records 97 industrial rows in this dataset, 61 of them rail yards and 16 intermodal ramps. This is one corner of that, and the corner has a particular character: the ramp, the yard, and heavy industry within four miles in three directions.

Those three directions are worth naming. The Heidelberg Materials Thornton Quarry is 3.37 miles south — a working crushed-stone operation, and the only quarry inside five miles of here. North-west are the BLUE ISLAND yard at 2.71 miles and BARR at 2.96. South-west, the Harvey intermodal ramp at 3.06 miles and the MARKHAM yard at 3.25. North-east, two Kinder Morgan liquid bulk terminals at 3.92 and 4.05 miles.

That is three different trades inside a four-mile circle: containers on chassis, aggregate in tipping bodies, and liquid in tank barrels. Very few towns in this state put all three that close together, and it means a truck sold from this address could plausibly be any of the three.

So we would rather you tell us which than have us guess from the postcode. A drayage tractor, a quarry tipper and a tanker wear in completely different places, and the questions worth asking about each are different questions.

So day cabs, tippers and tank trucks all work this ground, with the Thornton Quarry 3.37 miles south and two Kinder Morgan terminals about four miles north-east. That is a fact about this corner of Cook County, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

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.