Back-seat Driver

Back-seat Driver: Fees stack up, boost cost of traffic tickets

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: 9:57 am

We hear often from drivers who suffer sticker shock when they're pulled over by police and handed a ticket for a moving violation. The actual cost is far more than many drivers had thought it was going to be.

Back-seat Driver: Tragedies haunt former train operators

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Sunday, February 5 2012 - 12:48 pm

Three people died last week in south Sacramento when a car cut past guard gates and was broadsided by a light-rail train. But there was a hidden victim too: the train operator.

Back-seat Driver: A truck, a flying ladder and a confession

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Sunday, January 29 2012 - 11:56 am

An acquaintance and I were chatting the other day when he suddenly said: "I have a confession to make."

Back-seat Driver: How freeway drivers should respond to a high-speed chase

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Wednesday, January 18 2012 - 10:45 am

A couple of weeks ago, California Highway Patrol officers were involved in a high-speed chase during the evening commute hour on busy Highway 99.

Back-seat Driver: Downtown Lincoln likely to see big-truck traffic even after bypass opens this summer

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Monday, January 9 2012 - 6:36 am

When the massive 12-mile-long Highway 65 bypass opens this summer, downtown Lincoln's main street finally will be relieved of all those huge, rumbling logging trucks and tractor-trailer rigs, right?

Back-seat Driver: Drivers get a break on old traffic tickets -- just this once

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Tuesday, January 3 2012 - 11:04 am

Do you by chance have a 4-year-old traffic ticket that you just haven't gotten around to paying? Well, the state has a deal for you.

Back-seat Driver: TSA apparently is moving away from X-ray type body scanners

By Tony Bizjak - Updated: Monday, December 19 2011 - 8:06 am

Pat-downs continue to rankle some passengers. But other passengers say they are more concerned about the radiation from body scanner X-ray machines the government employs at many airports.