Aussie question

StarSong

StarSong

Awkward is my Superpower
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Los Angeles Suburbs
I started watching a hilarious Netflix series called The Letdown about being a new parent. During one plot line, one of the women gets a job for a tyrannical boss who wants to know about how many driver's license points she has - and implies that those points are somehow transferable.

Can anyone explain this?
 

I believe they are points in your license for moving violations and that transferability means you can take it with you from place to place.
 
I know what drivers' license points mean in the US, but the episode's discussion was clearly referring to a practice unknown to me.
 

If you commit a demerit point offence while driving outside of NSW? (Say Victoria) Australian States and Territories exchange traffic offence information. This means that if you hold a NSW licence and commit an offence in another State, the offence will attract demerit points in NSW (transferable)
 
I intuit that he had been clocked by a speed camera or going through a red light.
When that happens you are sent an infringement notice and you have three choices - one is to pay the fine immediately in which case you may lose your license. Moving traffic violations as you call them in US attract penalty points. Get enough of these and you lose your license for a period.

With speed and red light cameras, if you were not the driver of the car in the photograph you can nominate the actual driver and then they will have to pay the fine and wear the penalty points. What the boss was doing was sussing out the employee to see whether she would allow him to nominate her as the driver to save his license. Quite unethical and also illegal.

The third option is to fight it in court. The speed cameras are not checked often enough and some have been registered buses 20 kph over the speed limit while crawling uphill in heavy traffic. Most people just pay up though. Speed cameras are great money spinners for the state governments.
 
Warrigal said:
I intuit that he had been clocked by a speed camera or going through a red light.
When that happens you are sent an infringement notice and you have three choices - one is to pay the fine immediately in which case you may lose your license. Moving traffic violations as you call them in US attract penalty points. Get enough of these and you lose your license for a period.

With speed and red light cameras, if you were not the driver of the car in the photograph you can nominate the actual driver and then they will have to pay the fine and wear the penalty points. What the boss was doing was sussing out the employee to see whether she would allow him to nominate her as the driver to save his license. Quite unethical and also illegal.

The third option is to fight it in court. The speed cameras are not checked often enough and some have been registered buses 20 kph over the speed limit while crawling uphill in heavy traffic. Most people just pay up though. Speed cameras are great money spinners for the state governments.
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That's exactly what happened in the show. Thanks for clarifying!

Red light cameras have been effectively prohibited in California except in very narrow circumstances.
Studies found the cameras increased the number of rear-end accidents as drivers made sudden stops to avoid a possible violations.
 

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