Showing posts with label cheaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheaper. Show all posts

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Become an Airline pilot to get cheap car insurance

In a recent article in the Guardian they have outlined what job titles are the best, and worst for car insurance costs. 

It would appear that people who are airline pilots, get dirt cheap car insurance. Presumably because they are seen as the type of people who will not make a mistake! Is this true though? If you were an airline pilot stuck on a 10 hour flight, wouldn't you want to get out upon landing and go hairing up the runway in an Aston martin, kicking the back out in clouds of tyre smoke!? I would! Surely there would be then a risk of a crash, particularly at one of the busiest of airports.  A crash between a 747 and an Aston is not going to be cheap!

The most expensive people car insurance title goes to people who are DJ's.  Presumably because they might be drunk, deaf and travel at night the majority of the time.  They can be fleeced out of as much as £,6000 per year in insurance. Seems a bit excessive doesn't it!?

This opens up the question - do people lie about their job titles on their car insurance? Are these things actually checked, as to whether people are lying or not? They certainly should be.  Ive also wondered what people put as their job title if for instance they fight lions, or do metal detecting for a living. There has to be some kind of "other" section so people can enter such titles as "electric donkey worker" or "bat hair specialist" ?

So in summary - learn to fly a plane, and you will not only get the best office view in the word, and get paid big money, but you will also be paying pennies on insurance!  This is another top tip from me!

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Cut up, but not shut up. X Factor driver vote off system.

On a 12 mile journey yesterday i got cut up TWICE. Both of which i had to swerve violently in order to not hit them, and both times the reason for the people cutting me up was not clear at all. They just suddenly decided they liked the look of the lane that i was in better! Perhaps i made it look sexy and irresistible and they wanted a piece of the action!  I doubt it to be honest, but I cannot think of any other reason.

This made me think of a system in how people could vote bad drivers off the road.  Let's inject some X Factor style technology into the road system.  A website should be created called "Driver vote off" - if someone cuts you up badly, you go on the website and place a vote against the driver / car reg.  If this car / driver receives 5 votes in one year, the DVLA visit them and tell them that they have to pass a full UK driving test, otherwise their license is taken away for a year. The person has to pay for the test, with that money going to improve roads, and lower road tax for everyone else.  This would mean that the roads are safer, and therefore less accidents, less jams, and cheaper insurance!  What is there not to like about this idea?  Have i just hit on the best idea since making fire?

Please let me know your thoughts and whether this is a good idea by making a comment!