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12/19/18, 1:30 PM #1

Michael van pelt
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I drive my truck to work and park in the parking lot. why is my employer asking for proof of insurance? is it really any of their business? I never drive a company vehicle and even if I did doesn’t their insurance cover me? just curious or am I being peranoid?

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12/19/18, 2:37 PM #2

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You are operating a vehicle on their property. They want to be sure anything on their lot is covered by your insurance should your vehicle cause some damage.

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12/19/18, 4:08 PM #3

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Odd all right, but we were hit by an uninsured driver this year. Cost us $500 for sitting at a traffic light. I’m all for any checks against uninsured drivers.

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12/19/18, 4:39 PM #4

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uninsured motorists

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First are breaking the law in every state.

Every state has a fund that's supposed to take care of the victims when an uninsured motorist causes damage. We ALL pay for that fund.

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I’m a fairly spry 82-year-old who had been a reader/participant at WoodCentral since the demise of Badger Pond. I started visiting BP to learn something about finish for a project I’d completed and became hooked on internet forums as a way of increasing my knowledge about all sorts of topics. I have been a moderator for a couple other forums on subjects I enjoy. My interest in woodworking began in the early 1970’s when my wife and I had contractors add to our house near Traverse City, MI, and I ended up doing the trim work to reduce mounting costs. I had no tools. I bought a P-C skilsaw, hammer, screwdrivers and one of those wooden miter boxes with a backsaw. I made trim for windows and doors from one-by lumber and started my woodworking career. At the same time, I started a 50-year career as a ski instructor. I got onto the night shift at a mental hospital so I could ski days, and spent my 30s and 40s with that schedule. I eventually replaced the PC-upside-down-in-a-board with a real table saw and began the purchase of enough equipment to fill a jam-packed 40-foot shipping container we used after we sold our property in Michigan. The ski instructing had taken us to Colorado and we were spending too much on maintaining utilities for two homes. A couple years ago, the dozen years spent at 10,000 feet of elevation was making my body produce too many red blood cells, so we had to leave my “forever” home in the mountains and we moved back to Michigan. Now I have to find myself a shop space for all those tools in the container.

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12/19/18, 5:18 PM #5

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Its almost an epidemic. Arizona is said to have about 20% of it's drivers with no automobile insurance. I've heard that California's rate is even higher.

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12/19/18, 5:37 PM #6

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If you don't have insurance to cover your mis-deeds then the property-owner could well find themselves in lawsuits.

Where I worked the policy was the same.

Bill

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12/19/18, 9:44 PM #7

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where I am, you can't register without insurance.

So no third party personal injury insurance = expired licence plate

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12/19/18, 9:52 PM #8

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Register? Whats that?

In AZ they steal the little annual stickers that go on the license plate. They peel these off and stick them on a license plate for a car who's license has expired. As long as they don't crash or get stopped they can drive around looking legal.

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