October 11, 2015 • CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
INSURANCE,
MARYLAND,
NEW YORK,
NEWSLETTER,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
WISCONSIN One of the most common questions we get from members is how many points will a given violation add to their driving record. It’s an important question, but it’s not the only one to ask after you get a traffic ticket. You also need to know how many points it takes to trigger a license […]
The legislative process slows down over summer (not necessarily a bad thing) since most state legislatures are in recess and won’t resume their business until next year. However, we did see a few notable proposals that required our members’ attention in the third quarter of 2015, which we will summarize below. Alerting members to important […]
September 27, 2015 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLINOIS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED TRAP,
SPEEDING,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL,
WISCONSIN Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln, but the title of this e-newsletter is also a motto the state has used to promote tourism. Since Illinois also collects hundreds of millions of dollars annually from motorists for everything from tolls to speeding and red-light camera tickets, it wouldn’t surprise us to learn that many government […]
Good reporters are skeptical by nature. They’re not supposed to take official pronouncements at face value; they’re supposed to dig deeper to get the real story. Yet, we constantly see lazy reporting on driving issues or stories that simply parrot the latest propaganda from the likes of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). Don’t […]
September 13, 2015 • DRIVER EDUCATION,
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FLORIDA,
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NEWSLETTER,
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SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
SPEEDING Proponents of aggressive speed enforcement routinely trot out the old saw that speeding causes one-third of all traffic fatalities. Predictably, this dubious assertion showed up in the bogus IIHS speed camera report we deconstructed in last week’s newsletter. We say dubious because there is ample evidence to show that speed is a contributing factor in […]
