We buy trucks in Waukegan

Three rail-yard rows attach to Waukegan, but they describe two facilities. Two Union Pacific rows lie 0.02 miles apart — about 106 feet — and the second name ends in a zero where the first ends in a closing parenthesis. They are one facility recorded twice.

A check for unbalanced parentheses across all 2,459 rail-yard rows in this corpus found only two such names, this one and one in Louisiana. The third row here is Canadian National, 2.38 miles from the centroid and about a quarter mile from the other two, and is genuinely separate.

That distinction matters more than it looks. Three rows would suggest a bigger rail presence in Lake County than two facilities actually make, and a page reporting the row count would overstate the town by half on the strength of a stray keystroke — 106 feet between two records of one yard.

What it means on the road is ordinary enough. Two working facilities under Union Pacific and Canadian National generate local drayage — day cabs and box trucks running short legs between gates, warehouses and the lakefront.

So day cabs and box trucks are the everyday shapes around two Lake County facilities, the Canadian National yard 2.38 miles out among them. That is a fact about the town, not a preference of ours. We buy all of them.

Flatbeds, dump trucks, straight trucks, work trucks and pickups are used everywhere, Waukegan included, and the offer is made the same way on any of them.

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.