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02
Feb
Safety Inspections – Part 3
It’s week three on the series about safety inspections. In week one, this blog looked at an illegal use of annual periodic inspections. Last week, the article focused on the complexity and difficulty in understanding the Illinois safety test law. […]
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26
Jan
Safety Inspections – Part 2
Welcome back! Remember the story being told last week about Bill the Trucker? Well things changed. After pretending to be an interstate carrier for about 8 months (when in reality he was an intrastate carrier), he got caught by the […]
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19
Jan
Safety Inspections – Part 1
Two quotes, same problem. Any truck officer worth his salt has heard this line from a truck driver who did not have a safety inspection “…but I have a USDOT number!” . Any truck officer who has worked alongside non-truck […]
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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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29
Dec
The New Illinois Cell Phone Law
Each year, there is a plethora of new legislation signed into law that affects trucking. In recent years, there has been a lot of revision work done on truck laws, but calendar year 2012 did not see as much new […]
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22
Dec
Tow Truck Registration: Part 2
Last week, the ITEA blog focused on basic information about the peculiarities of tow-truck registration. The goal of the article this week is to examine proper enforcement methods for expired tow-truck registration. With the December 31st expiration of tow-truck (TW) […]
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15
Dec
Tow Truck Registration – Part 1
Most police officers who specialize in truck enforcement will be the first to tell you that it is not the most exciting job ever. There is one task that needs to be done, and when the roads are empty, it […]
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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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01
Dec
Highway Safety
Earlier this week, Illinois lost one of their finest. On November 26th, Illinois State Trooper Kyle Deatherage had used his police motorcycle to make a traffic stop on I-55 north of Litchfield, IL. While standing alongside the car, he was […]
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