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Exemplary Police Work #4
There are vicious rumors floating around about Illinois. Once such rumor is that truck registration in the Land of Lincoln is super...


Impounding Trucks: Part 3 – Ransom Tows
You’ve seen this situation play out in the movies a million times. Bad guy needs money, so he kidnaps an innocent person, usually the...


Impounding Trucks: Part 2 – Administrative Tows
Hey – did you hear the government is strapped for cash? Not really a new concept, and most people have their own personal opinion about...


Impounding Trucks: Part 1 – Arrests
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 Glenn Strebel Award
When the ten original members of the ITEA began this Association in October 2009, no one expected to see all the progress that has been...


Hurry up and wait, wait, wait, wait for it
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...


Guns-n-Truckers
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....


2014 – A Year in Preview
It’s the end of the year as Illinois knows it, and you feel <insert emotion/illness/expletive>. Usually at this time every website,...


Free Range Fines
Everybody likes a range. Police officers (and other gun aficionados) spend a lot of time on a range honing their shooting skills....
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