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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...

Once upon a time in the olden days, a builder finished a house and looked on it with pride. The house was square, level and plumb. All...

The sticker shock of an overweight citation is remarkable. Whether it’s a $10,000 ticket or a $500 ticket, it’s a lot of money for a...

In the 1983 TV show The A-Team, actor George Peppard was famous for saying “I love it when a plan comes together!” Whether it’s gears...

Everyone loves politics whether they want to admit it or not. Merely knowing the right thing to do, or having the best solution, does not...

One of the biggest challenges in truck enforcement is learning to compartmentalize all the different areas of truck law and refrain from...

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...

There are two days every year when Illinois truck enforcement officers are out, en masse, scouring the road for easy overweight tickets....

It’s that time of year again…IFTA. This FLA (aka “four letter acronym”) stands for the International Fuel Tax Agreement. Nobody likes to...

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

There are vicious rumors floating around about Illinois. Once such rumor is that truck registration in the Land of Lincoln is super...

If you were coming of age in Chicago in 1973, you loved Steve Goodman. Many classic songs written by this tunesmith were about his...

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...

It’s the end of the year as Illinois knows it, and you feel <insert emotion/illness/expletive>. Usually at this time every website,...

On the first day of Truckmas, Jesse gave to me, a tow truck plate. On the second day of Truckukkah, Jesse gave to me, a second tow truck...

Each year the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association rallies together leaders who work tirelessly to bridge the chasm between the worlds...

You may find this hard to believe, but sometimes government does not function as well as you would expect. The separation of powers...

Think back…WAY back. High school chemistry. Did you pass? Did you fail? Do you care? Probably not, but one of the core points of...

Tick tock…tick tock…tick tock. It’s gonna go boom. One-hundred forty-four short days to go. At 12:01am on Friday, January 31st, 2014,...