Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

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...

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...

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,...

Have you ever been to a sporting event and seen people move up to better seats than they paid for? Maybe you are that person! Usually the...

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...

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...

Ahhhh…the excitement of a new year is here. Resolutions for personal change. Madly scribbling out the old calendar year each time you...

Laser cutting in the manufacturing industry has become the technology of choice for cutting the large, flat pieces that make up most of...

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

Every great artist gets their start somewhere. Some start out as gang members tagging walls and railroad cars. Others start out at the...

If you are skilled and experienced professional, you can easily spot an impostor in your trade. A good carpenter can spot a hack from a...

One – it is the loneliest number. However, there is power in being the solitary numeric. Only one person can be President of the United...