Mileage plates are a great way to lower your cost for registration of trucks not used year-round.

On June 28, 2017 Illinois State Police Officer Ryan Albin was killed in a traffic crash involving a semi-truck. This is the third traffic...

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

Sometimes the list of things to love about Illinois is so long people forget to include one of its biggest assets: winter. Well, maybe...

If you were more than an infant in 1980s or earlier, the year 2000 seemed like an age away. The average American thought people would be...

The federal government has spent billions of dollars over the past decade preaching the importance of a common sense task, required by...

There’s a reason every red-blooded American boy wants to be a train conductor or a truck driver: big powerful machines made of iron and...

Tell the truth…you know you love it when a rock falls off a truck and cracks your windshield. You know what else you love? When sand...

In the 1983 TV show The A-Team, actor George Peppard was famous for saying “I love it when a plan comes together!” Whether it’s gears...

On November 26th, law enforcement officers statewide will remember the first anniversary of the tragic death of Illinois State Trooper...

Quick survey – raise your virtual hand if you believe brakes are important for all vehicles, particularly for trucks and trailers. Many...

“Hey! You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?”  The answer is “no”…no you don’t.  That would be dumb. You may very well...

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 week three on the series about safety inspections. In week one, this blog looked at an illegal use of annual periodic inspections....

Welcome back! Remember the story being told last week about Bill the Trucker? Well things changed. After pretending to be an interstate...

Two quotes, same problem. Any truck officer worth his salt has heard this line from a truck driver who did not have a safety inspection...

Earlier this week, Illinois lost one of their finest.  On November 26th, Illinois State Trooper Kyle Deatherage had used his police...

Hurricane Sandy battered the eastern seaboard last week.  As the region began to recover, it became readily apparent trucking into the...

Legislation is always a double-edged sword.  In any given bill, there are good reasons behind the writing…but the value of the potential...

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...