Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

Several years back, a stereo company produced a commercial to advertise the audible power of their stereo systems.  It featured what...

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...

Remember when Stella Liebeck spilled that hot cup of McDonald’s coffee all over her lap, burned herself and then sued for an exorbitant...

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...

It’s hard to believe more than five months have elapsed since the suicide of Fox Lake, IL police lieutenant Charles Gliniewicz. 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...

Back in the day, your math teacher would tell you that you won’t always have a calculator so you better be able to find the solution in...

Everybody loves an inheritance. Not that they want a loved one to die in order to receive it, but there is something to be said for one...

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

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

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...

There’s a reason things come in twos. Without a second wheel on a bicycle, balance is quite difficult. Steering and shifting gears in a...

Laser cutting in the manufacturing industry has become the technology of choice for cutting the large, flat pieces that make up most of...

Sometimes the list of things to love about Illinois is so long people forget to include one of its biggest assets: winter. Well, maybe...

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...

Garbage stinks. Garbage cans stink. Garbage trucks stink. Garbage transfer stations stink. Garbage landfills stink. From the onset of...

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