Midwest Center For Traffic Safety

Many home rule units of government have created their own local overweight/oversize permit programs.  The trucking industry has two main...

To understand the proposed mixer weights, one must understand the higher garbage weights.  Decades ago, when larger compactor garbage...

The political machine in Illinois is alive and well. The General Assembly has until March 9th to get bills out committee and into the...

Illinois came online with IFTA in October of 1977.  Before IFTA, each individual state required a fuel tax permit to operate…a burdensome...

A police officer may also stop a truck for a random traffic violation, and thru the course of the stop, develop independent reason to...

Around the year 2000, retired Lombard police officer (and ITEA board member) Gary Johnston began talking to the late Mick Ramirez at the...

It is easy sometimes to get caught up in the issues that pertain to our daily individual lives and not see the big picture…issues in the...

In Illinois, some police officers specialize in truck enforcement full time or within a dedicated traffic unit, but not all.  Rookie...

Over the last year, particularly in the last few weeks, the ITEA has received several phone calls and emails regarding a rumor about the...