Hopefully you filed your income tax refund on time this past week, and hopefully you are going to receive a refund. The ITEA knows you...

Hey – did you hear the government is strapped for cash? Not really a new concept, and most people have their own personal opinion about...

The day of reckoning is almost here. Oh wait, it’s not. Or maybe it is…what is going on with the federal medical merge program for CDL...

Settle down. No one is claiming laws prohibiting distracted driving are dumb. If the truth be told… 1) every driver agrees it is...

Tick tock…tick tock…tick tock. It’s gonna go boom. One-hundred forty-four short days to go. At 12:01am on Friday, January 31st, 2014,...

Booze and weed. One is legal, and the other might be legal depending what state you are in. Not Illinois…at least not yet. The...

Cement is simple. Mix a few aggregates and water, load and spin in a truck, pour out on a jobsite, and then leave to harden like rock. ...

There once was a man who owned a horse. He loved horses, but he equally loved the environment and refused to further decimate the good...

It’s a truck! It’s a machine! It’s…it’s..special mobile equipment? There are few things that cause second glances from drivers than...

Hey…did you hear about the guy who got his CDL suspended because he was issued too many overweight violations? Well if you did, you...

When the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association began in 2009, the founding members created a list of issues that law enforcement...

Each year, there is a plethora of new legislation signed into law that affects trucking. In recent years, there has been a lot of...

Drunk driving. It doesn’t take any real effort to convince someone of the danger and waste of life caused by it. Each person is at...

If you ever want to enter in to a heated debate with police officers, bring up the topic of discretion. From the moment a police officer...

Braking is obviously a critical system on heavy trucks. Those who are going to drive trucks requiring CDL’s need to demonstrate their...

For those readers who were older than toddlers in the 1960’s & 70’s, you probably have images of semi-truck grills and fenders loaded...