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14
Sep
Advanced Truck Enforcement Officer
You don’t have to like the President, but you would have to agree that he probably makes decisions based on volumes of information not privy to the common citizen. You don’t have to like your boss, but you would have […]
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13
Jul
Cook County Strikes Again
Cook County. The second most populous county in the nation. Home to the City of Chicago and 126 suburbs. The population represents nearly 40% of the entire State of Illinois. The name itself wells up emotions of distrust, apathy, and […]
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04
May
Bathroom Scales
Let’s be honest…there is probably no greater divide between law enforcement and the trucking industry than the use of portable scales. Police officers will argue till they are blue in the face about portable scale accuracy and necessity. Truckers will […]
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23
Mar
Exemplary Police Work #3
When is it legal to do something illegal? When you have permission, of course. With every authority there are boundaries, and crossing them may have penalties. But, violating those rules does not necessarily mean all authority is nullified. For example, […]
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15
Mar
Update! Resolution to the Resolution
A few weeks ago, the ITEA posted a resolution to work on a solution to a problem regarding enforcement of oversize/overweight permit loads crossing Illinois Tollway Authority structures via a state highway. Earlier this month, a group of officials from […]
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23
Feb
Resolution 2013-01…Tollway Bridges
In 2008, the Illinois Tollway Authority (ITA) and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) announced that permitting for overweight vehicles on IDOT maintained highways which cross over structures owned by the ITA may require ITA permission. The tragic August 2007 […]
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09
Feb
Chaos
Are you a Seinfeld fan? If so, you will remember this line from Cosmo Kramer: “Hey, a rule is a rule, and let’s face it…without rules, there’s chaos”. The quote came after Cosmo challenged his opponent on the golf course […]
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12
Jan
The Good, the Bad, and the CDL
When the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association began in 2009, the founding members created a list of issues that law enforcement routinely was enforcing incorrectly, and set out to make it right. Many of those items have been discussed on this […]
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05
Jan
Welcome to 2013!
Welcome to 2013! It’s hard to believe a new year is already upon us. The year 2012 was a great year for the ITEA. We saw a spike in membership growth, built many new relationships within the trucking industry and […]
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08
Dec
2013 Truck Officer Conference
This past January the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association hosted a truck officer conference at the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy in Glen Ellyn, IL. On January 9th, 2013, we are doing it again! If you are a police officer in Illinois […]
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