New NMA Blog Commenting System
Friday, January 29th, 2010 Posted in Helpful Information | 5 Comments »Earlier this week we made the transition to a new commenting system on this blog. We had been using an adapted version of the commenting system that comes with Wordpress (the system that this blog is built on) but after ...
10 Most Popular NMA Blog Articles In 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 7 Comments »As a way to recap the year, we've put together a list of the articles on this blog that were viewed most often during the last twelve months. 1) 6 Cities That Were Caught Shortening Yellow Lights This article, written in March ...
Speedtrap.org Redesigned: A New Focus On Usability
Monday, December 7th, 2009 Posted in Speed Traps | 7 Comments »The NMA has operated The National Speed Trap Exchange (www.speedtrap.org) for nearly a decade and it has consistently been the number one spot on the web for people looking for information on speed traps. After a large increase in interest ...
A Speeding Ticket By Mail? It Could Happen To You This Holiday Weekend
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Posted in Speed Cameras | 14 Comments »This is our most recent national press release. Feel free to forward it your friends who may be traveling this holiday weekend. The Fourth of July is one of the busiest traffic days of the year and many motorists will be ...
Watch Your Wallet When Driving Through These 10 States
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 Posted in Helpful Information | 77 Comments »With the first major driving holiday of the summer season approaching, we have analyzed the laws across the country to determine the best and the worst states when it comes to exploiting the motoring public. These state rankings were calculated using ...
How To Fight A Michigan Speeding Ticket
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 Posted in Traffic Tickets | 2 Comments »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 ...
Help Us Stop Short Yellow Lights
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 15 Comments »The National Motorists Association Foundation is organizing a national grassroots effort to publicize and discourage the practice of using traffic signals with short yellow durations as revenue generators at red light ticket camera intersections. The Stop Short Yellow Lights Project ...
Avoid Vacation Disasters: 6 Tips For A Great Road Trip
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in Helpful Information | 2 Comments »Despite expensive fuel and economic uncertainty, millions of Americans will be hitting the road over the Labor Day holiday. We've developed a list of recommendations intended to keep a vacation trip a vacation and not a family disaster story. 1) Take ...
A Blueprint For Reasonable Drunk Driving Laws
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in DUI/DWI | 46 Comments »As a followup to last week's post on the possibility of mandatory breathalyzers in every vehicle, we thought it would be worth going over the organization's stance on DUI/DWI laws: The NMA supports drinking and driving regulations based on reasonable standards ...
Have Your Say: NMA Forums Launched
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Helpful Information | 5 Comments »We're happy to announce the launch of the new NMA Forums. Over the years we've received various requests asking for a discussion board for people interested in the issues the NMA covers. Until now, for various reasons, we haven't been ...
