TELEMATICS – FINES
August 1st, 2002
JONATHAN THOMSONTELEMATICS systems are being used by company car drivers to overturn speeding convictions and parking fines, according to fleet management systems provider Minorplanet. A surge in convictions has led many company car motorists to question the accuracy of speed cameras. Minorplanet claim that fines had been cancelled using their reports."'Mostly it is due to a faulty setting on the camera. But a cancellation of the fine is normally as a direct result of a telematics report, used as proof," said operations director Andrew Tilman.In another case a ...
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