Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

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

At any major event people are seen wearing different hats while working together to accomplish the same goal. At sporting events, there...

America is a free market. A customer in one state can hire a company from another to complete a job, or deliver cargo. As a result,...

Since the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association became an information repository to its member police and trucking communities, many...

There was a time when talking to someone meant having to locate them in person and deliver a message. Then the telephone was invented and...

On June 28, 2017 Illinois State Police Officer Ryan Albin was killed in a traffic crash involving a semi-truck. This is the third traffic...

The world is bent on instant gratification. The internet has become such an effective medium of communication it causes anxiety when...

Sitting still has never done a person good. People need to get up, move and exercise to maintain their health. Holding fast to sedentary...

The most important life lessons learned are from bad decisions made. Time and experience can be excellent teachers when a lesson is...

On behalf of the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association, Merry Christmas! We hope this holiday season has been filled with joy and...

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...

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

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...

Yeah, you read the title of this article correctly. There is a dumb law concerning securement of flatbed loads in Illinois. Does that...

Everyone loves to pay income tax and here’s why: In America, you can pay as much or as little tax as you want. Right? Wrong. No one likes...

It’s a new year and the ITEA is stoked to begin year number six as a professional organization designed to serve law enforcement,...

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...

There’s two invariable truths to which a person must acquiesce when studying the trucking industry. First, the industry has an...

A ridiculous stereotype portrayed by the media is the rogue “Dirty Harry” policeman persona. After shooting a victim, police officers do...