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29
Oct
You Can’t Have Your Cake
Think about the last purchase of your car’s license plates or registration renewal sticker. For most people, it’s as simple as entering credit card information into the Secretary of State’s website and clicking submit. Likely, the hardest decision to make […]
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22
Oct
The More You Know
This past month, local law enforcement officers rose to the challenge and completed the ITEA’s signature Advanced Truck Enforcement Officer training. This 40-hour training class went above and beyond any basic class they previously encountered. Curriculum presented included the nitty-gritty […]
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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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08
Oct
Pilot Cars
The average person who sees an oversize/overweight vehicle thinks one thing: big. It’s huge. It’s a massive truck. They only say this because their point of reference is a world full of small Clasiq cars and SUVs. The truth is […]
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01
Oct
Attempted Overweights
If the criminal justice system could bring charges based on the motive of one’s heart, every good (or bad) person would be in jail. Some of the glue which holds our society together is a personal conviction to deny the […]
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24
Sep
Exemplary Police Work #11
If a person is riding a bicycle built for two, he is upon a tandem bicycle. If a trucker has a pair of axles which are a minimum 40” and a maximum 96” on center, he has a tandem axle. […]
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17
Sep
Friendly Competition
Ask any law enforcement officer, and if they’re willing to be honest, they will admit there’s an endless competition between police officers and fire fighters. Sometimes this competition is as simple as poking fun at the differences between assignments. Other […]
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10
Sep
Dumb Laws: Propane & Natural Gas Powered Vehicles
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03
Sep
Dumb Laws: Fire Truck Weight Limits
There comes a time in the life of a reader when he must ask “who’s the author of this?” Maybe he is reading an opinion piece in the local newspaper. Maybe he is reading comments to a post on social […]
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27
Aug
Wives’ Tales & Rumors
In a world where speed and convenience supersedes a person’s desire to ascertain facts through proper outlets, misinformation runs rampant. What is often forgotten is even before Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media, information was still very often […]
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