Monday, October 18, 2010

Pay at the Pump

I came across with this article in gifts for breakfast.  The article said Corpus Christi is having an insurance checkpoint, towing and even auctioning uninsured vehicles. The report showed that one in four vehicles don’t have auto insurance. The city of council gave the police department authority to take action against uninsured vehicles, and also approved fund to increase enforcement. The penalty ranges between $175 and $350 for first offense, and about $280 to get the vehicle out of impound. Their cars can be sold if violators don’t pay their fine within 30 days.

Something has to be done about the large number of uninsured vehicles, and this “pay at pump” might be a better option.  This might help uninsured people get auto insurance. But all people do not agree in this matter.  They say DPS have record of insurance data of people having insurance, so this  doesn’t require to create any checkpoints. As this state has higher rate of illegal immigrants and they don’t have state valid driving license. Without license on cannot get insurance, so there is another backdrop also.

Therefore, people are curious to see whether this policy helps to solve inequity between insured and uninsured drivers.

2 comments:

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Anonymous said...

After adjusters get that package thing provided by an attorney with legal documents, photographs and also other records and etc. How much time does it commonly state in the letter to respond? Do adjusters really reply by or on the date? Whenever they respond by phone, e-mail, letter or fax?