Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

LOL. LMAO. TTFN. IKR. Long before kids started texting as their primary form of communication using acronyms meant to befuddle their...

Hopefully you filed your income tax refund on time this past week, and hopefully you are going to receive a refund. The ITEA knows you...

In the world of apps, the term “running in the background” has become common speak. Whether you are using a laptop, mobile phone or...

There are two days every year when Illinois truck enforcement officers are out, en masse, scouring the road for easy overweight tickets....

We Americans love to generically assign popular brand names to common items. The really smart people of the world call these “proprietary...

There are vicious rumors floating around about Illinois. Once such rumor is that truck registration in the Land of Lincoln is super...

The day of reckoning is almost here. Oh wait, it’s not. Or maybe it is…what is going on with the federal medical merge program for CDL...

It’s the end of the year as Illinois knows it, and you feel <insert emotion/illness/expletive>. Usually at this time every website,...

On the first day of Truckmas, Jesse gave to me, a tow truck plate. On the second day of Truckukkah, Jesse gave to me, a second tow truck...

Each year the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association rallies together leaders who work tirelessly to bridge the chasm between the worlds...

Think back…WAY back. High school chemistry. Did you pass? Did you fail? Do you care? Probably not, but one of the core points of...

Tick tock…tick tock…tick tock. It’s gonna go boom. One-hundred forty-four short days to go. At 12:01am on Friday, January 31st, 2014,...

There’s magic numbers in truck law. Illinois used to have the magical 73,280. There’s also the magical 54,999 which is an integer short...

Groundhog’s Day means nothing. Any seasoned truck enforcement officer recognizes that an increase of cement mixers on the street means...

“Hey! You wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?” The answer is “no”…no you don’t. That would be dumb. You may very well...

There once was a man who owned a horse. He loved horses, but he equally loved the environment and refused to further decimate the good...

It’s a truck! It’s a machine! It’s…it’s..special mobile equipment? There are few things that cause second glances from drivers than...

Hey…did you hear about the guy who got his CDL suspended because he was issued too many overweight violations? Well if you did, you...

When the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association began in 2009, the founding members created a list of issues that law enforcement...

Welcome to 2013! It’s hard to believe a new year is already upon us. The year 2012 was a great year for the ITEA. We saw a spike in...