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Let’s play a game of word association. We’ll say a word that has to do with trucks, you respond with the first word that comes to your...

The federal government has spent billions of dollars over the past decade preaching the importance of a common sense task, required by...

Last week’s article got back to the ground floor of truck law. The basic definitions of an axle and tandem axle were discussed in depth....

There’s a reason every red-blooded American boy wants to be a train conductor or a truck driver: big powerful machines made of iron and...

The war on drugs. One could not invoke a law enforcement initiative with so great a political divide. The truth is, the war on drugs is...

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...

Cruising down the highway with your baby by your side is as American as apple pie. So why would a national police publication tell...

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

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...

Well, it’s here. 2014. A new year and a host of new laws. Calendar year 2013 was a landmark year for the Illinois General Assembly....

Settle down. No one is claiming laws prohibiting distracted driving are dumb. If the truth be told… 1) every driver agrees it is...

You don’t have to like the President, but you would have to agree that he probably makes decisions based on volumes of information not...

Anyone from the Chicagoland area can easily spot a true City-boy just by listening to the way he speaks. There is a tone of voice, a...

Quick survey – raise your virtual hand if you believe brakes are important for all vehicles, particularly for trucks and trailers. Many...

July 1st. A great day or a terrible day in Illinois depending which side of Illinois law one stands. Each year on July 1st, intrastate...

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. ...

It’s week three on the series about safety inspections. In week one, this blog looked at an illegal use of annual periodic inspections....

Two quotes, same problem. Any truck officer worth his salt has heard this line from a truck driver who did not have a safety inspection...