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If you drive a commercial motor vehicle in Illinois, one of the most important things to understand is that court supervision, the outcome many non-commercial drivers rely on to keep a ticket off their record, is not available to you in the same way.…
If you drive commercial vehicles in Illinois, you’ve probably heard an officer or a permit office use the term “non-divisible load.” It sounds like a technicality, but it’s one of the most important, and most misunderstood, co…
Several times I’ve been asked for my opinion on whether a driver should perform standardized field sobriety tests (SFSTs) and whether they should agree to blow into the breathalyzer if stopped for DUI or if stopped for a petty traffic offense that…
If you drive a commercial vehicle in Illinois long enough, sooner or later you’ll see the lights in your mirror near a portable scale setup, or you’ll get waved onto a stationary scale off the highway. The question every driver asks in th…
Illinois law provides several different permit mechanisms for carriers transporting oversize or overweight loads. Two permit types are frequently confused: Round-trip permits Permits for repeated moves of like objects While both involve moving simila…
Every Illinois oversize/overweight permit incorporates by reference Form OPER 993 (the IDOT Special Vehicle Movement Permit Provisions). OPER 993 is not optional background material. Per its own terms, it “must be carried in the vehicle to which th…
As an Illinois attorney representing trucking companies and truck drivers, I have seen a troubling trend: law enforcement officers pulling over permitted loads and declaring the entire Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) permit “null a…
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