Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

Last week, this blog began to tell the tale of a municipality struggling to accommodate a band of citizens armed with complaints...

The average person who sees an oversize/overweight vehicle thinks one thing: big. It’s huge. It’s a massive truck. They only say this...

In a world where speed and convenience supersedes a person’s desire to ascertain facts through proper outlets, misinformation runs...

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

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

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...

In simpler times, before the dawn of cable TV, high resolution video games and the internet, children around the nation were entertained...

Have you ever thought about a word and wondered who made it up and why? The word “ceiling” is one of those nouns. It means all kinds of...

On the road to maturity as a police officer, one quickly learns to quit taking things personally. Some take longer than others, but the...

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...

Do you want to have your mind numbed? Well, there’s a lot of ways to accomplish that unlawfully, but if you want a legit method, study...

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...

Welcome back! Remember the story being told last week about Bill the Trucker? Well things changed. After pretending to be an interstate...

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

Last week, the ITEA blog focused on basic information about the peculiarities of tow-truck registration. The goal of the article this...

Appropriate registration is defined as “the full annual cost of the required registration and its associated fees”. This language was...

There is no doubt the Illinois Vehicle Code does little to help sort out the nuances of CDL and registration issues.  The Administrative...