Trey knows who has the ledger, who owes the clerk, and which driver will take the hill after dark. Some of this information was obtained respectably. He would prefer not to sort it by category.
Lil hired him for his connections and because she knew enough about him to make leaving inconvenient. He can drive a cart as well as explain why the load is somebody else's fault. Those skills do not always arrive together.
He is quick with a joke when a straight answer would put him at a disadvantage. He is also the man close enough to the wheel to feel it failing. Much of his life consists of deciding when to tell the person holding the schedule.
If he says nobody had to die for a document, ask a different question next.