September 19, 2021 • Congestion Pricing,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
Infrastructure Funding,
LEGISLATION,
Motorcycle,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
TOLLING,
tolls,
VMT,
VMT Tax,
WHEEL TAX Layered levels of taxation are nothing new to motorists. The gas tax, road tolls, congestion pricing, registration fees, and even wheel taxes are commonplace. Congress is looking at us hungrily again as being ripe for the picking as it debates the final details of desperately needed transportation infrastructure funding. The idea is not new. In […]
Motorists have always been a target for criminals, but since the pandemic began, it seems the nefarious activity has increased dramatically. Some are violent, most involve property loss and all turn victims’ lives upside down. For example, cities large and small have reported an increase in carjackings. The Associated Press has reported cases are on […]
September 1, 2019 • Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
PRIVACY,
REVENUE GENERATION,
Road User Charge,
VMT,
VMT Tax We recently completed a series of newsletters (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) about the renewed calls for levying a set of surcharges–or thinly disguised taxes–on motorists to help rescue the Federal Highway Trust Fund. National calls are picking up in momentum for the implementation of a system of travel fees layered on top […]
July 21, 2019 • ALPR,
Electric Vehicle,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Fuel Tax,
Gas Tax,
GPS,
GPS TRACKING,
infrastructure,
LEGISLATION,
NEWSLETTER,
PPP,
Public Private Partnership,
Road Usage Charge,
Technology,
TOLL ROAD,
VMT,
VMT Tax A road user charge or RUC (also referred to as the Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax or VMT Tax and Mileage Based User Fees or MBUF) currently permeates nearly every discussion of how our country will pay for infrastructure in the future. Many transportation planners and elected officials seem to agree the time has come to […]
The Federal Trade Commission has started an investigation into the practice of auto lenders equipping new vehicles with GPS and other devices. A payment assurance device attached to a vehicle’s ignition allows finance companies to remotely and instantly disable the vehicle and prevent it from being driven. If a car goes missing, lenders can use […]
