Don't like my driving? No punishment for hoons as companies pay fines

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The Victorian road safety watchdog has called for the naming and shaming of dangerous drivers who repeatedly have their fines paid by the company they work for.

A report released on Tuesday by the road safety camera commissioner revealed that over a period of two years, 4280 infringements which would have resulted in a driver losing their licence were instead paid for by a company, meaning the dangerous driver was allowed to stay on the road.

In the worst example found by the watchdog, one vehicle recorded 31 fines that would have led to the loss of a licence in the two-year period and no driver was nominated.The Age“I’d like to see these people identified publicly to begin with. I reckon you want to know your neighbour is someone driving through red lights with impunity and feels no compulsion about adhering to speed limits," he said.

“We found a significant number of heavy vehicles but I don’t want to generalise and say it’s just this sort. There was also a lot of vehicles that look like tradies' utes, but we also found high-end European sports cars. There is a broad range of bad behaviour going on of people hiding behind the corporate veil," he said.

Mr Voyage said something needed to be done that was "more than just fining people because they are paying the fine as the cost of doing business.”

 

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Drivers should be compelled by law to provide a valid credit card in their name when paying fines.

I’m sure this is applicable to all those shitty truck Drivers.. small price to pay to make money

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