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Tennessee Tyranny: Fingerprinting During Routine Traffic Stops

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Now they'll be fingerprinting us for jaywalking. Or "speeding." Just about any (formerly minor) traffic violation. Beginning in the once-fine state of Tennessee. Southerners, it appears, are becoming just as statist as the Yankee carpetbaggers they used ...

Where Does The Money From A Speeding Ticket Go?

By James Baxter, NMA President In this land where reality and fiction are indistinguishable there is a dead legal principle that says judges and courts should not personally benefit from the results of their rulings. Obviously, there is a conflict of ...

Traffic Tickets: A Tax Increase By Other Means

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Governments all over the country are looking for creative ways to increase their cashflow -- without a formal tax raise. Instead of filching through everyone's pockets via a new sales tax or jacking up the real ...

Study Proves That Traffic Tickets Go Up In Weak Economy

Not that this will be a surprise to anyone who drives even a moderate amount, but check out this story on ScienceDaily.com: A new study to be published in next month's Journal of Law and Economics finds statistical evidence that local ...

How To Fight A Michigan Speeding Ticket

The Detroit News is in the middle of a series of articles on speed limits. This article, excerpted below, gives a good overview of how to fight a speeding ticket in Michigan: But motorists often lose their cases because they aren't ...

How To Objectively Identify Unsafe Drivers

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist For years I have been arguing that the most objective -- and perhaps, definitive -- measure of a driver's ability to drive safely is whether he or she has been involved in an at-fault accident. Speeding tickets, ...

The Hidden Costs Of A Simple Speeding Ticket

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Virginia's recently repealed "abuser" fees got a lot of coverage in the press -- but few people understand that a standard-issue traffic ticket can have repercussions just about as lethal to your pocketbook. The difference is that ...

9 Ways To Improve Traffic Safety That The Government Will Ignore Because They Are Too Busy Ticketing You

The Federal Highway Administration has strongly recommended nine tools for decreasing road fatalities. You can find them at the end of this article. Most of these tools are fairly basic and simple to implement. So why aren't they already universally ...

What To Do If You Lose Your Copy Of A Traffic Ticket

On occasion, traffic ticket recipients misplace or lose their copy of the ticket. Unfortunately, it’s very rare that the police will lose their copy of the same ticket. In other words, ignoring the problem will not make it go away. The ...

Please Pay This Surcharge So We Can Afford To Write More Tickets

According to the New Jersey Courier Post, a New Jersey state legislator wants drivers to pay for increased police patrols: Sen. Jeff Van Drew, D-Cape May, is proposing a $40 surcharge on all motor vehicle violations and using the money -- ...