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Exemplary Police Work #10
Garbage stinks. Garbage cans stink. Garbage trucks stink. Garbage transfer stations stink. Garbage landfills stink. From the onset of...


Restricted Endorsements
Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war. Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take one step forward. Sometimes to...


Dumb Laws: Flatbed Load Securement
Yeah, you read the title of this article correctly. There is a dumb law concerning securement of flatbed loads in Illinois. Does that...


External Accountability is Everything
Thanks to the blend of email and smartphones, work has become portable. Unfortunately, it has also created more work! In the high-paced...


Truck Enforcement is not Traffic Enforcement
Earlier this year, the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police published an article in their Command magazine written by the Illinois...


Digital Paper
Everything on the internet is true…everything! Don’t believe that statement? Well good, because it is obviously false. As technology has...


Pipe Dreams
This week’s articles is about pipes. No, not the kind you smoke in a velvet robe. No, not the kind which broadcasts sound from a giant...


Trucker Flat Tax Day
The wise man saved his money all year so there was enough cash to pay for the year-end holiday shopping. Hopefully he saved, or had...


Illogical Conditions
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure and Which Way books made popular in the 1970s and 80s? Every story had multiple possible endings...


Calculated Fines
Okay, the secret is out. When it comes to overweight vehicle enforcement in Illinois, there is money in it for local government. What is...


Milkshakes
When a young person studies mathematics, he will invariably learn about the law of mutual exclusivity. You cannot turn left and turn...


The 36′ Rule
Have you ever looked at an optical illusion on paper, and no matter how long you stared, it became more and more confusing? The key to...


Electrically Surging Brakes
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...


Rookie Truckers
Remember the excitement of turning 16 years old and pining for your driver’s license? Those of you who came of age in Illinois may still...


Trucks & TVDLs
Remember 2010? The immigration debate was a top story nationwide. The topic held news headlines longer than most political arguments, but...


Axle Folly
In 1984, the blockbuster comedy Beverly Hills Cop starring Eddie Murphy was released. Murphy played the character Axel Foley, a Detroit...


Deflategate
Now that Super Bowl XLIX (and the halftime show) is done, America can also get busy forgetting the buzzword of January 2015...


The Lone Wolf
The lone wolf. Every occupation has them. The guy who wants to be out there, on his own, with no accountability. The concern isn’t for...
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