ID: transportation problem

From the Boise Weekly -
Stuck in the System -
How Idaho's traffic laws lead to ruin for the poor:

If you're like one of over 68,000 Idahoans, in 2005 you found yourself with a suspended drivers license. Maybe it was revoked for driving under the influence (5,971 suspensions), or perhaps the ex is tired of waiting for a child support payment (2,259 suspensions), but whatever the reason (refusal to submit to Breathalyzer testing? 1,640 suspensions), you found yourself in a sticky situation--and if you're poor, living paycheck-to-paycheck, the more you struggle, the worse it seems to get...

It could be worse, and was. Way back when in Idaho (less than ten years ago), do it often enough and you could get tagged with Felony Driving Without Privileges. I represented one of the last individuals in Idaho to go to prison for this offense; I don't think the sentencing judge liked my client's proposed probation plan for truck driver school.

(disclosure: as a measure of how small and close-knit Idaho is, I'm related to one to the people quoted in the story.)