CONSUMER TIPS
Workwise North America believes in sharing engineering and technical knowledge with the wider community to help them in saving avoidable expenses and making better choices. To this end we publish tips that can help in that effort.
Reducing your car service bills
Car dealerships’ main source of profits, other than markup on the sale of vehicles, is the service department. Very often manufacturers prescribe unnecessary items, that while harmless to the vehicles, are often the creation of marketing and sales efforts and have nothing to do with mechanical needs of the vehicle, are completely unnecessary, generate excess waste in the environment and cost you money.
Speed Limit Fact Sheet
Speed limits should be based on sound traffic-engineering principles that consider responsible motorists’ actual travel speeds. Typically, this should result in speed limits set at the 85th percentile speed of free-flowing traffic (the speed under which 85 percent of traffic is traveling). These limits should be periodically adjusted to reflect changes in actual traffic speeds