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EOBRs: The Unfunded Mandate
There’s nothing quite like working hard for your money, saving and getting to a secure place in your finances, or even if you have to...


Rollin’ Coal
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...


Restricted Endorsements
Sometimes you have to lose the battle to win the war. Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take one step forward. Sometimes to...


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


Digital Paper
Everything on the internet is true…everything! Don’t believe that statement? Well good, because it is obviously false. As technology has...


Pipe Dreams
This week’s articles is about pipes. No, not the kind you smoke in a velvet robe. No, not the kind which broadcasts sound from a giant...


Trucker Flat Tax Day
The wise man saved his money all year so there was enough cash to pay for the year-end holiday shopping. Hopefully he saved, or had...


Overweight Bodycams
Since August 2014, a re-energized conversation has swept the United States regarding the relationship between law enforcement and racial...


Calculated Fines
Okay, the secret is out. When it comes to overweight vehicle enforcement in Illinois, there is money in it for local government. What is...


PS, I Love/Hate You
Unless you are new, you are well aware the ITEA is just as much about trucking industry advocacy as it is about training and resourcing...


Rookie Truckers
Remember the excitement of turning 16 years old and pining for your driver’s license? Those of you who came of age in Illinois may still...


Trucks & TVDLs
Remember 2010? The immigration debate was a top story nationwide. The topic held news headlines longer than most political arguments, but...


A Ton of Gas
Want to mess with the mind of a small child? Ask them this simple question: “which is heavier…a ton of feathers, or a ton of bricks?”...


Bring on 2015!
It’s a new year and the ITEA is stoked to begin year number six as a professional organization designed to serve law enforcement,...


Sign & Drive
There’s comes a day when all seems right with the world. Okay, maybe not, but in the midst of national turmoil, political unrest and...


What’s So Gross About Ratings?
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...


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


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


Electronic Display of Permits
It’s a small world, right? What a person who travels quickly learns is that its pretty much the same everywhere you go…just little...


4th Annual ITEA Conference – #ProtectTheIndustry
A ridiculous stereotype portrayed by the media is the rogue “Dirty Harry” policeman persona. After shooting a victim, police officers do...
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