Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Streib
Rich Thomas writes: > Progressive is a progressive company owned by a progressive who is a > big-time contributor to progressives and progressive causes. If you > are not a progressive, that should be a clue as to what the data > logger thing is about. If you are a progressive, you should welco

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Rich Thomas
I think most company-owned trucks have GPS units that track the thing, log data, and report on it. Independents, probably not. Truckers don't like them for obvious reasons. A coupla years ago I had an incident bike v. ATT van, I called up the local office, got hold of the guy who ran the fie

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Allan Streib
Mitch Haley writes: > And the DOT would like to do it to Mexican truckers, but NAFTA > prohibits them from charging the truckers for the devices unless they > also charge USA truckers for them. > > So the choice is: > 1. Give free data loggers to truckers from Mexico so you can make sure > they a

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Dieselhead
I would not trust progressive with my garden hoe, much less my insurance. Since I saw the Progressive data logger, I have done a little research. Based on what I have read so far, there haven't been a lot of takers. Seems that they start you out with a certain discount, and can then alter t

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread LWB250
m: Mitch Haley > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" > Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011, 1:07 PM > LWB250 wrote: > > Has anyone noticed that Progressive now offers "lower > rates&quo

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Mitch Haley
LWB250 wrote: Has anyone noticed that Progressive now offers "lower rates" for people who install a data logger (SnapShot) device in their vehicles? And the DOT would like to do it to Mexican truckers, but NAFTA prohibits them from charging the truckers for the devices unless they also charge

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread LWB250
Has anyone noticed that Progressive now offers "lower rates" for people who install a data logger (SnapShot) device in their vehicles? Dan --- On Sat, 3/26/11, Mitch Haley wrote: > From: Mitch Haley > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars of

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Mitch Haley
Rich Thomas wrote: No good deed goes unpunished by the forces of socialism. Next thing will be "fuel tax offset fees" for hybrids and electrics, because they are not getting the usurious fuel taxes from petrol/diesel vehicles. It never ends -- gotta pay for the modern social state somehow, an

Re: [MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Rich Thomas
No good deed goes unpunished by the forces of socialism. Next thing will be "fuel tax offset fees" for hybrids and electrics, because they are not getting the usurious fuel taxes from petrol/diesel vehicles. It never ends -- gotta pay for the modern social state somehow, and limit freedoms of

[MBZ] Parking permit surcharge to force diesel cars off the roads

2011-03-26 Thread Gerry Archer
Owners of diesel cars face higher charges for annual parking permits in major cities amid growing concern over their effect on air quality. The most expensive parking permits will cost £176 and will apply to cars such as a three-litre diesel Range Rover Councils have begun to raise the cost f