Hey Enforcement… sure a notice will scare some people… if it\’s printed in enough different languages! I can only imagine the costs they\’ll try to rack up. Glad I don\’t live there, and don\’t plan on ever driving there. Merry Christmas!
Hey HD88… funny you should mention FL. Lived is SW FL (the \”quiet\” side) for 12 years. Have been back to a midwesterner for the past nine years and don\’t regret it a bit! Things started getting too outta hand down there. Some people just don\’t see a correlation between UN-insured and IL-legal… neither one is good. Merry Christmas!
It appears the comments have gotten off the point of the article… so if I may, I\’d like to go back to the article for my points…
Something about States and uninsured drivers I\’ve never quite understood: it seems to be OK to charge vehicle registration taxes, but not OK to force insurance? The reality is, if you do not pay for one, you cannot get a license plate.
UIM is therefore, in my view, patently simple. To get a plate, you pay for the State taxation, and you pay for the insurance minimum limits. If you don\’t, the State takes the plate off your car. They own the plate — you don\’t. The cost to come take your plate away from you is then charged to you, if indeed you cannot prove that you had the insurance on the vehicle when they \”repossessed\” that plate.
Computer reporting is a wonderful thing. In many States, officer car computers have direct hookup to this information. When they come across one without insurance, they get out their screwdriver and take the plate — which is deposited at the local DMV office at the end of the day, where you can retreive it the next, if you really get the insurance. Again, your ticket pays for this State service.
So we have ease of doing it, and direct cost application. Don\’t have an insurance agent or way to get insurance?… simple, have the DMV offices have insurance sales kiosks on site for minimum limits coverage, which spits out an ID card on the spot.
If the State won\’t tolerate not paying for the vehicle registration / plate taxation… then they have no business tolerating the failure of minimum limits insurance that is also within the same statute book.
Are you kidding me? This get challenged? Why, because it requires each idiot on the road to be responsible for his crappy volkswagen bus prior to hitting my Benz? You are the typical liberal gayboy from S.F. wanting the free ride with a joint in your mouth. Gay, Stoned and uninsured is no way to go through life!
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Hey Enforcement… sure a notice will scare some people… if it\’s printed in enough different languages! I can only imagine the costs they\’ll try to rack up. Glad I don\’t live there, and don\’t plan on ever driving there. Merry Christmas!
Then you don\’t want to drive in Miami, FL. Plenty of UIMs and other languages in Miami.
Hey HD88… funny you should mention FL. Lived is SW FL (the \”quiet\” side) for 12 years. Have been back to a midwesterner for the past nine years and don\’t regret it a bit! Things started getting too outta hand down there. Some people just don\’t see a correlation between UN-insured and IL-legal… neither one is good. Merry Christmas!
It appears the comments have gotten off the point of the article… so if I may, I\’d like to go back to the article for my points…
Something about States and uninsured drivers I\’ve never quite understood: it seems to be OK to charge vehicle registration taxes, but not OK to force insurance? The reality is, if you do not pay for one, you cannot get a license plate.
UIM is therefore, in my view, patently simple. To get a plate, you pay for the State taxation, and you pay for the insurance minimum limits. If you don\’t, the State takes the plate off your car. They own the plate — you don\’t. The cost to come take your plate away from you is then charged to you, if indeed you cannot prove that you had the insurance on the vehicle when they \”repossessed\” that plate.
Computer reporting is a wonderful thing. In many States, officer car computers have direct hookup to this information. When they come across one without insurance, they get out their screwdriver and take the plate — which is deposited at the local DMV office at the end of the day, where you can retreive it the next, if you really get the insurance. Again, your ticket pays for this State service.
So we have ease of doing it, and direct cost application. Don\’t have an insurance agent or way to get insurance?… simple, have the DMV offices have insurance sales kiosks on site for minimum limits coverage, which spits out an ID card on the spot.
If the State won\’t tolerate not paying for the vehicle registration / plate taxation… then they have no business tolerating the failure of minimum limits insurance that is also within the same statute book.
Good idea. There should also be a waiting period so that the check can clear unless a debit card is used to pay for it.
Are you kidding me? This get challenged? Why, because it requires each idiot on the road to be responsible for his crappy volkswagen bus prior to hitting my Benz? You are the typical liberal gayboy from S.F. wanting the free ride with a joint in your mouth. Gay, Stoned and uninsured is no way to go through life!