Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

No, the title of this article is not about aftermarket products added to the trunks of modified foreign cars. No, this article is not...

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

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...

The average person who sees an oversize/overweight vehicle thinks one thing: big. It’s huge. It’s a massive truck. They only say this...

Illinois, at its core, is an agrarian state. A great portion of its commerce is driven by agriculture. Generations of agricultural...

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

The introduction to this article serves as a reminder that all Illinois truck & trailer flat weight base plates were due for renewal on...

In 1989, James Bond received a License to Kill. What? Where does one obtain such credentials? The truth is no one has a license to kill,...

Back in the day, your math teacher would tell you that you won’t always have a calculator so you better be able to find the solution in...

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...

Happy New Year from the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association! Last week this blog had to focus on some of the negative outlooks moving...

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

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

Turn on your favorite news service and watch the turf wars. Pakistan and India are at peace, but Kashmir is still disputed. For...

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

What do all these terms have in common – road, street, highway, freeway, tollway, expressway, avenue, lane, parkway, boulevard? For sake...

Everyone loves to pay income tax and here’s why: In America, you can pay as much or as little tax as you want. Right? Wrong. No one likes...