Expanded Tracker Program

Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) is expanding our "Completion Tracker" service upgrade program that provides traffic violator school (TVS) students with follow-up notifications regarding the disposition of their traffic school completion. An additional option will mean greater choice and convenience for students and, hopefully, encourage them to make use of this service to enhance their traffic school experience.

About a year ago, we packaged the new Proof of DMV Submission notification (students get an email with the date, time, and sequence number of their completion that was posted successfully to the DMV's Traffic Violator Course Completion (TVCC) database) with the Completion Tracker notification (an email reporting that the court with jurisdiction over that student's case had viewed their TVS completion report via TVCC). We are now breaking out the Completion Tracker as, once again, a stand-alone product offering. This will allow students a "budget option" to track their their completion through the reporting-and-processing phases of traffic school attendance.

Effective October 1, 2014, students will be presented two post-completion tracking options via your traffic school websites:

• Completion Tracker
• Proof of DMV Submission/Completion Tracker Package

All other facets of the program, including contractual terms for participation, will remain the same. If you have any questions about this update, please contact Chris (via email or by calling 800 . 487 . 1699) or Tara (via email or by calling 800 . 863 . 2590).

As always, these service upgrade products require no work or effort on your part—indeed, they should cut down on the number of customer service calls you need to field from students who are concerned about whether or not their completion was reported. Better still, this outstanding service option will please your students and make them more likely to return or refer business.

Instructor Continuing Education

REGISTER NOW for the online Traffic Violator Instructor Continuing Education Seminar! You can complete this Internet-based program at your convenience, and it's a great way to take advantage of the option for traffic violator instructors (TVIs) to participate in continuing professional education as a condition of license renewal—in lieu of trudging down to an occupational licensing office to take a DMV-administered test.

For complete details about this valuable program for all traffic school instructors, check out our blog post announcing the program or the FAQs page on the course website (www.TrafficSchoolInstructorCourse.com).

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Remember: Take a moment to check the expiration date of your instructor license and/or the license(s) of any instructor(s) working for you. Whether you choose to take advantage of this continuing ed seminar or not, you'll need to make sure you renew your instructor(s) license(s) in a timely manner!

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Don't forget that, as a special service to our affiliates, Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) is making the Traffic Violator Instructor Continuing Education Seminar available for just $9.95 (regularly $49.95). To claim your affiliate-only discount, simply enter the coupon code from your e-mailed notification about this course in the appropriate field on the payment page.

If you have any questions about this excellent new benefit from TSC, please contact Chris (via email or by calling 800 . 487 . 1699) or Tara (via email or by calling 800 . 863 . 2590).

California Spanish Classroom Materials Available!

Traffic Safety Consultants, Inc., (TSC) is pleased to announce that the classroom materials for our Spanish traffic violator school (TVS) lesson plan have been delivered and are ready to be distributed. TSC has offered affiliates a California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)-approved TVS lesson plan in English for many years, and we're now ready to expand our offering with a Spanish-language version. This new product is DMV-approved for use statewide, and has been professionally translated from our outstanding English TVS classroom-based lesson plan. It's the same great content and the same high-quality presentation materials—in an all-new language, for Spanish-speaking drivers in California!

If you are interested, please contact Chris (via email or by calling 800 . 487 . 1699) or Tara (via email or by calling 800 . 863 . 2590) to get started with your DMV paperwork that will allow you to transition your school to TSC's Spanish classroom lesson plan.

New Bike-Passing Law

California's "Three Feet for Safety Act" (CVC §21760) takes effect September 16. This law essentially codifies what has long been a recommended safety practice: Drivers overtaking and passing a bicycle that is proceeding in the same direction on a highway must allow at least three feet between their vehicle and the overtaken bicycle or its operator. When a three-foot space cushion is not possible because of traffic or roadway conditions, drivers are to slow to a reasonable and prudent speed and pass only when doing so would not endanger the safety of the cyclist.

Hundreds of bicyclists are killed and many more are injured nationwide every year. Many of these incidents can be prevented if both drivers and cyclists practiced more caution, and the new law is intended to reduce vehicle-bicycle crashes by reminding passing drivers to give bicyclists plenty of room to ride safely. Remind students that they must always do their part to ensure the safety of all users of the roadway.

A violation is an infraction punishable by a fine of $35; the fine is $220 if a collision between the motor vehicle and the bicycle causes bodily injury to the cyclist.