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09
Jan
Flick the Booger
Everybody loves an inheritance. Not that they want a loved one to die in order to receive it, but there is something to be said for one generation stewarding their money wisely so heirs can benefit from it. Some people […]
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02
Jan
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year from the Illinois Truck Enforcement Association! Last week this blog had to focus on some of the negative outlooks moving into the new year, but now it’s time to get the glass half full! The article this […]
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26
Dec
2016: Open Your Wallet
Ahhhh…the excitement of a new year is here. Resolutions for personal change. Madly scribbling out the old calendar year each time you write the wrong date. The feeling summer is ages away. Most importantly new laws by the dozens take […]
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19
Dec
A Moneylust Christmas
Tis the season for every merchant who has hired an overpriced marketing firm on TV or radio to suggest the most pedestrian of all holiday gimmicks: a rhyming parody starting with the line “twas the night before Christmas”. The Illinois […]
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05
Dec
Cry Two Tears in Two Buckets
There’s a reason things come in twos. Without a second wheel on a bicycle, balance is quite difficult. Steering and shifting gears in a truck is a lot easier with two hands. What’s not good in pairs is two buckets […]
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28
Nov
Construction And Manufacturing Zones
Laser cutting in the manufacturing industry has become the technology of choice for cutting the large, flat pieces that make up most of the world’s manufactured goods. Laser cutting allows the creation of high-precision, lightweight, precision-machined parts that are nearly […]
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21
Nov
Winter Rules Review
Sometimes the list of things to love about Illinois is so long people forget to include one of its biggest assets: winter. Well, maybe that is one of the reasons people flee Illinois, but truth be told, winter is a […]
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14
Nov
Rollin’ Coal
If you are old enough to remember the glory days of trucking from the 1950s until deregulation in the early 1980s, many images come to mind. Cabover tractors, CB radios, multiple log books, a general lack of law enforcement and […]
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31
Oct
Exemplary Police Work #10
Garbage stinks. Garbage cans stink. Garbage trucks stink. Garbage transfer stations stink. Garbage landfills stink. From the onset of humans creating waste to its final disposal underground for millennia to come, garbage stinks. You know what else stinks? The complexity […]
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24
Oct
Lawyering Part 4: Scruples
Every great artist gets their start somewhere. Some start out as gang members tagging walls and railroad cars. Others start out at the carnival drawing big head caricatures of visitors. When real people conduct themselves in a manner consistent with […]
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