Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

Newsletter of the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association March 2018 Letter from the President, Last month, we tackled some important...

In November 2011, the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association launched the first installment of weekly blog posts. This first article was...

Back in 1892, British songwriter Harry Dacre penned a little jingle about he and a woman named “Daisy” riding on a bicycle built for two,...

The goal for anyone looking for a relationship is to find the special someone who “completes you,” who meshes with your personality and...

In 1994, actor Jim Carey starred in a comedy called “The Mask.” Carey plays character Stanley Ipkiss who has a reserved, vanilla...

The world of truck enforcement is a world of never ending questions. Most people will agree the second heaviest regulated industry in the...

As January comes to an end, the ITEA hopes the first few weeks of 2017 have been enlightening. As January gives way to February, the...

Few words carry as much weight to a Commercial Motor Vehicle driver as hearing a Trooper say their vehicle is “out of service”, or OOS....

Ask any law enforcement officer, and if they’re willing to be honest, they will admit there’s an endless competition between police...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

Who are you? Your identity is everything to you. It could be your career, your faith, your last name, your facial hair (it is Movember by...

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...

Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure and Which Way books made popular in the 1970s and 80s? Every story had multiple possible endings...