Tag: Vehicles

Tulsa police will target seat belt enforcement February

February 14, 2019

During the month of February, Tulsa Police will focus on seatbelt and child restraint enforcement within the entire city. Traffic and motors officers will be randomly monitoring areas throughout the city during this focused enforcement action. A citation issued for failure to wear a properly fastened seat belt is $20 and a citation issued for…

Uninsured driver problem is linked to illegal immigration

January 31, 2019 Robert McDowell

Late in the year 2018, it was announced here in Oklahoma that one of the state agencies had contracted with an out-of-state company to install cameras in the highway and street system to photograph license plates of all vehicles to compare with records to see if the vehicle was actually insured. Any found to not…

Oklahoma’s uninsured motorist mess

November 8, 2018

Can Oklahoma cut down on the number of motorists who are uninsured? Will Oklahoma’s crackdown on uninsured motorists since November 1 lead Oklahoma towards a historic zero uninisured drivers status, or at least, becoming the state with the fewest uninsured drivers? According to consumer research website ValuePenguin.com, Oklahoma’s uninisured driver rate has seen one of…

Trump’s EPA is rolling back ridiculous car standards

October 11, 2018 Jay Lehr Tom Harris

It began to go wrong in the late 1950s when M. King Hubbert of the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that America would start to run out of oil by the end of the 1960s. His prediction was called Peak Oil, defined as the point at which our nation, and perhaps the world, would use more…