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30
Sep
An Ode to the Truck Driver
Look around right now. What do you see? A phone, computer, lights maybe a chair. What do all these things have in common? They were all delivered by a truck. Every product in the world at some point spent time […]
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31
Dec
Gadgets & Gizmos
In 1977, a forgettable film titled Gizmo! was released. The movie unearthed reel footage from the previous thirty years of outlandish inventions which never came to be. Humorous in hindsight, but technology today which impacts the future is bittersweet. Forty […]
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26
Nov
Regarding Murdered Police Officers
This week, the ITEA breaks from it’s normally scheduled programming of truck enforcement warblings. Instead, the article this week is the reproduced text of a letter, written by the President of the Illinois Association of Chief’s of Police, to it’s […]
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12
Nov
Dirty Lyle, Revisited
Five years ago today, the ITEA published its first blog article, titled Dirty Lyle. Since this time, more than 250 articles have been published on current events which intersect the trucking and law enforcement professions. Some articles have been written […]
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05
Nov
Dumb Laws: Covered Heavy Duty Tows
Welcome to the third installment of the dumb laws trilogy involving the federal FAST Act implementation in Illinois. To review, the FAST Act in and of itself is not dumb. The intentions are good. What is dumb is the how […]
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15
Oct
Give Them an Inch…
Give them and inch and they’ll take a mile, is how the old saying goes. Police officers see this in action every day. The speed limit is 30 mph but the motorists push the limit to see how much faster […]
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10
Sep
Dumb Laws: Propane & Natural Gas Powered Vehicles
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20
Aug
The Fatal Five
The commercial transportation industry has been struggling for over a decade to backfill the exodus of qualified drivers from its ranks. A study commissioned by The American Truck Association reported in 2005 a driver shortage of around 20,000. A great-recession […]
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13
Aug
1+1=Combination of Vehicles
Its simple math: 1+1=2. Or isn’t it? When a person has a locker which needs to be secured, he employs a lock which is opened with a key, or a combination. Why is it called a combination lock? Because there […]
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28
Jul
We’re Not So Different
In light of recent tragic events which have unfolded in our country, it seems appropriate to take a step back from normal topics covered in this blog. In the spirit of the ITEA, parallels can be drawn between the two […]
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