January 8, 2023 • CIVIL,
CRIMINAL,
Discovery,
DMV,
Driver's License,
DUE PROCESS,
DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEVADA,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OREGON,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
Traffic Tickets On January 1st, Nevada became the latest state to remove the threat of a criminal charge for motorists who can’t pay fines for minor traffic violations. The new law has downgraded these minor infractions from criminal misdemeanors to civil violations with civil penalties. This change only applies to low-level traffic tickets, not to tickets like reckless […]
September 18, 2022 • Bicyclist,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
Driver Courtesy,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GHSA,
MASS TRANSIT,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
PEDESTRIAN,
Road Safety,
SEAT BELT,
SPEEDING,
Traffic Safety The Governor’s Highway Safety Association (GHSA) released a study called America’s Rural Roads: Beautiful and Deadly earlier this month. Researchers found that between 2016 and 2020, 40 percent of US traffic deaths occurred on rural roads. A total of 85,002 people died in rural areas during the five-year study period—nearly half of all traffic deaths across the country. This […]
February 27, 2022 • ATA,
CDL,
DRIVER EDUCATION,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FMCSA,
INSURANCE,
NEWSLETTER,
OOIDA,
Parking,
SAFETY The minimum age to obtain a commercial driver’s license and drive a tractor-trailer within state boundaries is 18 in all states. Federal guidelines require the driver of 18-wheelers to be at least age 21. That appears to be changing. With the passage of the November 2021 $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Act, Congress requires the Federal […]
February 13, 2022 • Automated Camera Tickets,
Automated Traffic Enforcement,
Corruption,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
Red-Light Camera,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road Safety,
SAFETY,
Speed Cameras,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
Traffic Tickets It didn’t take long after Pete Buttigieg, U.S. Transportation Secretary, introduced his department’s 42-page National Roadway Safety Strategy for people to grasp the importance of a tiny sentence buried in Note 3 on Page 28 of the report: “Promote speed safety cameras as a proven safety countermeasure.” Protestations emanated from as far away as the […]
At the start of the new year, the state of Alaska inaugurated new regulations that allow four-wheelers on roads with a speed limit of 45 mph or less. In the past, rules allowed these motorized vehicles to cross state roads only. Alaska defines all-purpose vehicles as any self-propelled device on wheels or tracks that make […]
