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Exemplary Police Work #9
Turn on your favorite news service and watch the turf wars. Pakistan and India are at peace, but Kashmir is still disputed. For...


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...


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


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...


Doubles Troubles
There’s old expression called “getting the cart ahead of the horse”. In the modern world, the horse represents the truck, and the cart is...


Village of Moneylust
The article this week will showcase a real Illinois town affectionately renamed as the “Village of Moneylust”. Even by its real name,...


Tall, Wide & Long
If you have email, at some point a friend of yours undoubtedly has sent you an invitation to join the social network LinkedIn. Or maybe...


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


Electronic Display of Permits
It’s a small world, right? What a person who travels quickly learns is that its pretty much the same everywhere you go…just little...


This Road is My Road, That Road is Your Road
Have you ever had responsibilities in your job when some co-worker comes along and steps on your toes? It’s aggravating. If the co-worker...


Harmonization
The majesty of music is hearing multiple layers of sound working together. Each person in a choir is an individual singing something...


Detours: Oversize/Overweight Permit Loads
Good heavy haulers and specialized carriers know the score. They spend the time researching routes. They inquire and obtain the permits...


A Mile of Trouble
“Walk a mile in their shoes.” “Mile after magnificent mile.” “Give ‘em an inch, they take a mile.” “Always go the extra mile.” “My mind...
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