Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

In a world where speed and convenience supersedes a person’s desire to ascertain facts through proper outlets, misinformation runs...

Its simple math: 1+1=2. Or isn’t it? When a person has a locker which needs to be secured, he employs a lock which is opened with a key,...

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

Like children gathered around an advent calendar, truck enforcement officers throughout the state will be gathered around their duty...

With its roots in 19th century warfare, the phrase “deadline” has an interesting, somewhat literal, etymology. According to author...

Those who live, work or own a business in Illinois are well aware of the astronomical amount of taxes paid out on a yearly basis. While...

Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase: “It’s better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6.” This refers to the hope the decisions you make may...

At the end of their shift on April 1st, ask any truck enforcement officer in Illinois the most common line heard from truck drivers...

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...

It’s that time of year again: another Super Bowl has come and gone. Who doesn’t love a good commercial? Whether your team was in the...

What does it mean to display something? The term itself seems simple enough. Take a moment to look around right now. Whether you’re in...

Let’s get back to the basics. It seems among the general trucking population, including the unschooled law enforcement officers, there’s...

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

Tis the season for every merchant who has hired an overpriced marketing firm on TV or radio to suggest the most pedestrian of all holiday...

If you are old enough to remember the glory days of trucking from the 1950s until deregulation in the early 1980s, many images come to...

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

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...

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

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...