WHEREAS many resource-based rural and remote British Columbian drivers must rely on large vehicles for business, work and basic winter transportation; AND WHEREAS drivers cannot afford the double insurance charged by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia ICBC for a second fuel-efficient vehicle that could be used when the larger vehicle is not needed; AND WHEREAS the double insurance nullifies any cost savings in fuel efficiency of a second fuel-efficient vehicle: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Union of BC Municipalities lobby the provincial government to direct ICBC to allow drivers, who can drive only one vehicle at a time, to purchase a single license plate that could be transferred between the fuel-inefficient and fuel-efficient vehicles, as needed.
