September 23, 2018 • 85TH PERCENTILE,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Facial Recognition,
IIHS,
Insurance Company,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
NHTSA,
NMA,
NMA Foundation,
REVENUE GENERATION,
RHODE ISLAND,
SAFETY,
SPEED LIMIT,
TICKET REVENUE,
VISION ZERO From guest writer Joe Cadillic of the MassPrivatel Blog All across the country, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is hard at work convincing cities to lower their speed limits to 25 MPH. The national effort to lower speed limits in cities is a fundamental tenet of a movement known as “Vision Zero.” To date, the National Highway […]
July 1, 2018 • CAF,
civil asset forfeiture,
CIVIL FORFEITURE,
Eighth Amendment,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FOIA,
HAWAII,
INDIANA,
New York City,
NEWSLETTER,
NMA,
OKLAHOMA,
RENTAL CAR,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED LIMIT As one of the NMA’s current national issues, Civil Asset Forfeiture or CAF is a program that allows the government at all levels to confiscate cash, cars and even homes from people who are suspected of criminal activity. Even if you are ruled innocent, your property is not necessarily returned; a trip to civil court […]
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 […]
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 […]
December 31, 2017 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
Gas Tax,
MINNESOTA,
NEWSLETTER,
OREGON,
REVENUE GENERATION,
TOLL,
TOLL ROAD,
TOLLING,
TRAFFIC CONGESTION,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON Single-occupant Northern Virginia commuters had a rude awakening in early December when they used Interstate 66 express lanes and found new tolls spiking as high as $44 for commuting the 10-mile stretch between the Capital Beltway and the District of Columbia. While the Virginia DOT showed that the average round-trip toll during the first week […]
