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- From: wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Road Taxes and tolls
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:18:53 GMT
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- jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
- >Except that it does not work that way. I just called Ga-DOT to ask
- >(404 656 5267 if anyone is interested) The way it will work is that
- >each "frequent user" estimates his monthly usage and purchases a
- >toll card for that amount. This card is fastened to the windshield so that
- >a laser reader in the toll lane can read the barcode. The toll is
- >deducted from the driver's account. At the end of the month he is
- >billed for what he used. Note that at no time is credit extended.
- >The state's not THAT dumb :-)
-
- Which begs the question, what do they do if you underestimate your usage
- or don't pay the monthly bill? How do they keep you off the road?
-
-
- > I just called
- >Cobb County Police (404 499 4101, Lt. Sisson) and asked what it
- >costs to have a Cobb County officer on the road for a year.
- >Here are the numbers:
- >
- >* The cop $37,000 (includes salary, benefits, training, uniform,
- > equipment.)
-
- Are you sure that's everything and not just salary? I can't imagine a
- police force that would accept an average salary or benefits level low
- enough to bring a total in that low.
-
- >* The Car 80,000-95,000 miles per year. @ 0.20 a mile that is
-
- $0.20/mile is pretty cheap to operate a car these days. The US govt
- estimates the cost as about $0.33/mile. And the mileage figures you
- show are 8-9 times the mileage used to to compute it.
-
- > If one pays the ticket, points are not
- >reported and it only takes one trip to court. If one challenges it,
- >the case is automatically continued at least twice as a matter of court
- >policy and if you lose, you get points. Only on the third appearance does
- >the cop have to appear and by then the victim has usually capitulated.
-
- Ah, yes, the "hassle 'em until they give up" strategy. After all, the police
- never make mistakes, do they?
-
-
- --
- William R. Carroll (Encore Computer, Ft. Lauderdale FL) wcarroll@encore.com
-
- "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form
- up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
- we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method
- it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
- inefficiency, and demoralization." -Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC(?)
-