April 15, 2018 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PATollsLawsuit2018,
PENNSYLVANIA,
Pennsylvania Turnpike PennDOT,
REVENUE GENERATION,
ROAD-USER FEES,
TOLLING A basic principle held by the National Motorists Association is, “Reasonable highway user fees [are] for maintaining and improving highways, not for financing non-highway projects.” (See the other main NMA tenets here.) The recent class action lawsuit the NMA filed with truckers’ association OOIDA against the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission for many years of excessive tolling […]
April 8, 2018 • ALABAMA,
ARIZONA,
Digital Driver's License,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
NEWSLETTER,
PRIVACY,
Real ID,
TEXAS,
WASHINGTON Personal information privacy seems to be a fluid construct these days. We give our information to social media companies like Facebook who sell the information for gain (Cambridge Analytica Scandal). We also give our private information directly to marketers if we enter any online contest, ask for information online about products or fill out an […]
April 1, 2018 • ARIZONA,
AUTO INDUSTRY,
CALIFORNIA,
CELL PHONE,
DISTRACTED DRIVING,
DRIVERLESS CARS,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
HAWAII,
IDAHO,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
SAFETY,
Technology,
TEXTING,
WASHINGTON Have we become a nation of cellphone zombies? Many experts believe that the increase in distracted driving, in particular using a cellphone to text while driving, has been a big factor in the increase of traffic fatalities since 2009. Another factor apparently is distracted walking. Pedestrian deaths account for 16 percent of all traffic fatalities. […]
On March 15th, a class action complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania by the NMA and the Owner Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) that is creating a tsunami-sized wave in the Commonwealth. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC), its officers, and the governor of Pennsylvania are defendants in the claim that PTC for […]
As sunroofs become more popular with new car buyers, questions abound whether they are safe or not. In October 2017, Consumer Reports (CR) came out with a scathing study on sunroofs that seem to shatter for no reason. Over the past 22 years, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had received 859 complaints of […]
