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FINES * USA - Traffic tickets: protect and serve or protect and profit?
... found was that there was a direct correlation between “hidden taxes” through the use of traffic tickets and times when local budgets are bleeding red ink...
NC,USA -Land Line Magazine , by Clarissa Kell-Holland -January 14, 2009: -- ... Thomas Garrett’s , an assistant vice president at the St. Louis Federal Reserve, and co-author Gary A. Wagner, an economist at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, set out to conduct an empirical study based on financial statistics they found online for local governments in North Carolina over a 14-year period. The economists also had online access to local governments’ traffic ticket statistics during this period... What their study, titled “Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror,” found was that there was a direct correlation between “hidden taxes” through the use of traffic tickets and times when local budgets are bleeding red ink. Garrett said what’s also interesting to note is that the number of traffic tickets doesn’t go back down during good economic times... “When revenues fall off, these municipalities scramble. And writing tickets is one way they can offset those costs,” OOIDA Executive Vice President Todd Spencer said. “Unfortunately, this is just another hidden tax drivers incur”...
* CARB ticketing truckers for violating five-minute idling limit
California truck stop visitors, beware – the California Air Resources Board is aggressively pursuing drivers who idle diesel trucks beyond the state’s five-minute limit
CAL,USA -Land Line Masgazine -January 14, 2009: -- ... Several truck drivers have reported to Land Line Now and Land Line Magazine that CARB enforcement officers have been watching truck stops in Barstow and Ontario, CA.. The enforcement officer is using an unmarked pickup truck to watch trucks idle, OOIDA members Larry “Trucking dad” and Tammy “Nightingale” Moseley of Nineveh, IN, told Land Line... The Moseleys – who make regular runs to California – use an APU to avoid fines... “They weren’t messing with people running APU units,” Tammy Moseley said...
* Cold Takes a Toll on Trucks and Truckers
Green Bay,WI,USA -WBAY, by Adam Aaro -Jan 15, 2009: -- The freezing temperatures can put a real hurt not only on truckers but also on their diesel vehicles. That has many truckers keeping their keys in the ignition... At a truck stop off Highway 172, William Storrow parked his rig for the night... "When it's this cold, I don't want to leave the house, but I had to, you know?" laughed Storrow, a driver from Mansfield, Ohio... No matter what the description, Storrow knows the devastating impact sub-zero temperatures can have on his livelihood... Many of the trucks at the truck stop had their engines running -- and they'll continue running through the night into the cold morning hours. The reason why, unless you have an additive in your diesel fuel, you're taking a chance the truck might not start... Truckers say diesel fuel can gel up when it gets this cold, which puts the brakes on their travel... (SEE VIDEO: Too Cold for Trucks, Truckers)
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