The repeated violations of a weed-themed company are just the tip of the iceberg in maddening city to get around
that many of these vehicles belong to New Yorkers trying to dodge fees, taxes and high insurance premiums. The city has fewer tools to pursue these vehicles.
The worst individual offenders aren’t from any American state at all, but are foreign diplomatic vehicles. According to city data, the all-time worst offender is an Egyptian diplomatic car that has racked up $223,265 across 1,983 unpaid tickets. Photograph: Taidgh Barron/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
After the pandemic hit, the then mayor, Bill De Blasio, suspended booting and towing for all vehicles – that policy only restarted this May. In 2021, a new state lawof suspending drivers’ licenses for unpaid fines, which advocates said disproportionately punished poor drivers. The fines were just a “natural byproduct” of having trucks in the big city, the Weed World owner, Bilal Muhammad, toldthis week. He blamed the tickets on contractors, who he said let the tickets “get out of hand”.
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