Look around right now. What do you see? A phone, computer, lights maybe a chair. What do all these things have in common? They were all...

In 1977, a forgettable film titled Gizmo! was released. The movie unearthed reel footage from the previous thirty years of outlandish...

This week, the ITEA breaks from it’s normally scheduled programming of truck enforcement warblings. Instead, the article this week is the...

Five years ago today, the ITEA published its first blog article, titled Dirty Lyle. Since this time, more than 250 articles have been...

Welcome to the third installment of the dumb laws trilogy involving the federal FAST Act implementation in Illinois. To review, the FAST...

Give them and inch and they’ll take a mile, is how the old saying goes. Police officers see this in action every day. The speed limit is...

A farmer has one apple, then he adds a second apple. How many apples does he have? Correct – two. Another farmer has ten oranges and...

The commercial transportation industry has been struggling for over a decade to backfill the exodus of qualified drivers from its ranks. ...

Its simple math: 1+1=2. Or isn’t it? When a person has a locker which needs to be secured, he employs a lock which is opened with a key,...

In light of recent tragic events which have unfolded in our country, it seems appropriate to take a step back from normal topics covered...

The basic principle of a divisible load is simple, only those items broken down to the bare minimum qualify. One bucket per excavator....

On June 30, 2016, the State of Illinois failed the trucking industry. While there is no doubt the stop-gap budget deal was the highest...

No one can discount the fact truck drivers and company owners have a tough job.  Balancing local, state and federal regulations with the...

One of the most common questions drivers ask law enforcement is “how much would that violation cost?”  They are referring to the actual...

Twenty-five years ago, if you had to make an important phone call, take a picture, compute a computation or pay a bill, you would need a...

Some things in life are common sense. Some things are not. Sometimes common sense prevails, other times it fails. In this conundrum of...

Those who live, work or own a business in Illinois are well aware of the astronomical amount of taxes paid out on a yearly basis. While...

Ok, the title of this article is a total lie. Weird things are not always wrong, they are just different. If you use social media, your...

It’s hard to believe more than five months have elapsed since the suicide of Fox Lake, IL police lieutenant Charles Gliniewicz. The...

Everybody loves an inheritance. Not that they want a loved one to die in order to receive it, but there is something to be said for one...