We buy trucks in Tilton

Two rail-yard rows attach to Tilton under different carriers. Norfolk Southern lies 0.61 miles from the village centroid, inside the place; CSX Transportation lies 3.27 miles out, attached by nearest-place fallback because its coordinate falls outside any incorporated place.

The two sit 2.87 miles apart and are two facilities rather than one recorded twice. What either handles we could not establish from any source read for this batch.

That separation is what makes the call straightforward here. Elsewhere in this lane two rows a few hundred feet apart under one carrier turn out to be one yard filed twice; 2.87 miles under two different carriers, Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation, is not that.

For a driver it means two genuinely separate destinations in a small village, one close in and one out past the line. That is a short circuit run repeatedly rather than a long haul, whatever the freight turns out to be.

So day cabs and flatbeds are the everyday shapes around two Vermilion County yards, the Norfolk Southern one 0.61 miles out among them. That is a fact about the village, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Dump trucks, box trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Tilton included, and are bought on 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.