Illinois municipalities use several procedures to enforce vehicle-weight ordinances. Depending on the applicable statutes and local ordinances, a violation may be processed through a municipal administrative hearing system or by a uniform traffic citation filed in circuit court. Three Illinois decisions—Catom Trucking, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Cammacho v. City of Joliet, and Solano v. City of Chicago—address the authority of municipalities to adjudicate overweight-vehicle violations...

Mileage plates are a great way to lower your cost for registration of trucks not used year-round.

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...