Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

You may find this hard to believe, but sometimes government does not function as well as you would expect. The separation of powers...

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,...

Booze and weed. One is legal, and the other might be legal depending what state you are in. Not Illinois…at least not yet. The...

Cement is simple. Mix a few aggregates and water, load and spin in a truck, pour out on a jobsite, and then leave to harden like rock. ...

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...

Each year, there is a plethora of new legislation signed into law that affects trucking. In recent years, there has been a lot of...

Legislation is always a double-edged sword. In any given bill, there are good reasons behind the writing…but the value of the potential...

Drunk driving. It doesn’t take any real effort to convince someone of the danger and waste of life caused by it. Each person is at...

If you ever want to enter in to a heated debate with police officers, bring up the topic of discretion. From the moment a police officer...

Braking is obviously a critical system on heavy trucks. Those who are going to drive trucks requiring CDL’s need to demonstrate their...

For those readers who were older than toddlers in the 1960’s & 70’s, you probably have images of semi-truck grills and fenders loaded...

Overweight enforcement is important. There is no argument that overweight vehicles cause damage to the road. For years a study has been...

The political machine in Illinois is alive and well. The General Assembly has until March 9th to get bills out committee and into the...

Illinois came online with IFTA in October of 1977. Before IFTA, each individual state required a fuel tax permit to operate…a burdensome...

It is easy sometimes to get caught up in the issues that pertain to our daily individual lives and not see the big picture…issues in the...

In Illinois, some police officers specialize in truck enforcement full time or within a dedicated traffic unit, but not all. Rookie...

The ITEA fields many calls and emails about truck enforcement. Sometimes the person is just looking for answers to questions. Other...