Teen driving safety is a pressing issue, especially in Texas where statistics reveal alarming rates of distracted and impaired driving among teens. Chip Lupo from Wallet Hub joins the discussion to highlight the state's driving laws and their implications. The conversation covers the high costs of insuring teen drivers, the importance of good driving habits taught by parents, and the benefits of professional driving schools. Listeners will gain insights into how to navigate the challenges of teen driving and insurance, as well as the evolving landscape of driving education.
The financial shock of adding a teenage driver to your insurance policy can feel like a sucker punch to your wallet. In Texas, parents face an average premium increase of 114% – the fourth highest in the nation according to WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo, our special guest this week. While Texas ranks middle-of-the-pack (28th) for teen driver fatalities, this statistic offers little comfort to parents navigating the treacherous waters of teen driving safety and skyrocketing insurance costs.
Diving into strategies that actually work, our hosts share personal experiences with driver education approaches across generations. We explore the evolving landscape from school-based programs taught by PE coaches to modern combinations of parent-led instruction and professional driving schools. The conversation reveals an important truth: teens often respond better to driving instruction from authority figures who aren't their parents. Meanwhile, insurance companies offer various paths to lower those painful premiums, including good student discounts and monitoring devices that track driving habits.
Beyond teen driving concerns, we cover breaking automotive news including a massive immigration enforcement operation at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia, the first-ever Vehicle Quality and Pricing Index showing Buick, Mazda and Toyota leading mainstream brands in reliability and affordability, and a shocking dealership embezzlement case in Midland where the former GM allegedly stole up to $150,000 through various fraudulent activities. Jeff rounds out the episode with a packed calendar of upcoming car shows and events across Texas. Whether you're raising a teen driver or simply passionate about automotive culture, this episode delivers valuable insights and entertaining discussion about the challenges facing today's drivers.
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Welcome to another in-wheel-time podcast, a 30-minute mini-version of the in-wheel-time car show that airs live every Saturday morning, 8-11 AM said.
This Saturday, we're coming to you live today. Again, from the Hemi Hideout, we mentioned it earlier, we're in a transition period with the studio for in-wheel-time, and we're going to be hopefully back in our new studio in a couple of weeks.
But at the meantime, John Havas, Shelley Gates out here at the Hemi Hideout, have been so gracious to let us borrow the back closet.
It's a nice back closet.
We always we had this closet.
All right, I guess now from Wallet Hub is Chip Lupo. He's been with us before, and Chip, it's good to have you with us again. Welcome.
Good morning, guys.
Good morning, how you been?
Good, how are y'all?
Well, very well, thank you.
So, gosh, I thought, do we really need to have this downer talk?
This is what it is.
Teenage driving in Texas.
Wow.
There's lots of lists here.
Teen driver fatalities per 100,000 teens were ranked 28th, but we're number one.
Presence of distracted driving, texting while driving laws. We're number one there.
We're also number one in the impaired driving laws segment as well.
So maybe you could explain all of this to us.
Well, sure, guys, the presence of the driving laws, what that means, that's not necessarily ranking.
That's an indicator. That's just an indication that your state has some sort of law in the books when it pertains to distracted driving, holding cell phones here in South Carolina.
We just passed a pretty sweeping legislation against handheld driving to win a new fix September 1st.
Law enforcement was out there just looking for someone to have a cell phone in their hands and they're, and they're not messing around when it comes to that.
But some things about Texas that I found interesting.
And yes, it was a pretty, pretty alarming number of teen drinking and driving.
Forty-third out of the 50 states and almost seven and a half percent.
Yet on the other hand.
There's the maximum amount that you would get for a speeding ticket. No, I'm sorry for not wearing a seatbelt $200.
And that's tops in the country. So apparently.
Drinking and driving is kind of going by the wayside there, but they're sure cracking down on seatbelt fractions.
That's that's rather odd. Don't you think?
I think it's kind of backwards.
Yeah, if you ask me. Yeah, exactly.
You know, this team driver fatalities per 100,000 teens, even though we're ranked 28th, that's still way too many.
Think about Texas.
Oh, for all Texas was like right in the middle of the pack.
Twenty fourth over odd at 50 state.
So slightly above average, but there's some things in there that Texas really needs to take a look at.
One thing I found interesting, you know, sure.
The video you gentlemen have experienced this.
If you've added a teen driver to your own insurance policy.
Well, in Texas, if doing so is going to increase your premium by average of 114%.
That's four, that's fourth highest in the country.
Ouch. I mean, there's no way to get around that.
I mean, driver education programs, adult driver in the front seat.
Any way to get around 100% or more.
Well, you would think so, but again, I mean,
these rates are high for a reason.
So apparently the state of Texas looking teen drivers at pretty high risk.
So it's very important to not wait until driving school.
I mean, parents should still, you know, drive good driving habits and they're children as soon as they're able.
And yes, the.
The abundance of driving schools was certainly help.
But it would also kind of be to the parents and families to kind of look at their own driving habits.
And you want to have us clean the driving record as possible before you had the child on there to kind of lessen the sticker shot there.
Well, I don't know about for the rest of the guys here or in yourself.
But when it came to driving, yes, we taught our girls how to drive.
But we also send them to driving school away from mom and dad to get a different perspective.
Because you know, I may have some habits.
It's been a while now, but have some habits that I don't want to pass on to my daughters.
And I'm thinking that, you know, a good driving school for six weeks would not be a bad thing.
So we bucked up paid the money and took them to the driving school.
Well, that and teens are more likely to listen to authority figures who are just other than their parents.
So it's coming from someone else.
It's probably not a bad idea.
Yeah.
We had hours growing up, ours was part of the school system.
It was an either an after school or a summer school program where you went for six weeks.
Which in some cases was okay, but then a lot of times you just got maybe a part-time football coach who was doing.
Exactly.
It was part of the most part.
It seemed to work out pretty well.
Mine started in what we used to call junior high school.
And I was the first one to sign up.
And we did it in the school auditorium.
And yes, it was one of the PE coaches that was licensed to teach the course.
And you know, we got to see the horrible, horrible black and white movies of death and destruction.
The scary tactics that went along with driving instruction back in the day.
And then we had the behind the wheel part of it.
In a rambler ambassador.
And there were four or five kids in the car and the instructor who had a break at his disposal on the passenger side.
And I was never so scared of driving with this guy in my entire life.
My mom had taught me pretty well how to drive.
And he managed to hit that break more often than I did.
What are you doing?
Slam on the bridge.
This is where you had a death.
It says a lot now a day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had a driving instructor.
The one I had was an elderly gentleman who walked around with a cane, which was kind of unsettling in itself.
If you had a car with him.
And if you were, and if you did something wrong, he would jab you on the side with his little walking stick.
As he was pounding on the brake.
How about you, Mars?
Did they have any of that over there in Neederville?
Well, no, it's the same basic sale up.
The PE coach.
And if you messed up too bad, when you got the PE, he'd let you know about it.
Yeah.
You didn't want to do that.
But more recently, I've got three of my granddaughters, teenagers.
Well, one of them just turned 21.
She got a 15% discount on her insurance.
Despite 21.
Despite true talking.
Yeah.
The others.
And I'm really surprised.
They went to the school, went to the driving school, got driving.
Some of the stuff they learned now that we were never taught.
Made a lot of sense.
But then again, they don't spend years much time behind the wheel.
It's up to the parents now to do the bulk of that.
Yeah.
And they say nowadays a lot of folks are using the Uber in certain cities.
So the big, like the New Yorks and the Chicagos and things.
They're using the LA, they're using the Uber's instead of having a car.
Yeah, down here.
We actually have Uber now.
Yeah.
So.
And not even getting their licenses.
It's definitely different for teenage drivers now.
Some of it's good.
I think it's some of it's bad compared to what we had.
Are there any discounts for teenage drivers?
Even though it's 118% or whatever number you came up with.
Are there any discounts for certain steps that you take?
You know, have your car monitored by, you know, the bad guy in the sky or something?
That depends on the insurance company.
The first team is the one you just mentioned a second ago.
Once you turn 21, if you have a clean driving record up to that point,
you can expect some considerable discounts.
But again, a lot of that depends on the insurance companies.
They'll be willing to cut into discounts.
If you agree to have a little monitor installed in your car that monitors how fast you're going.
If you're breaking too frequently, those types of things.
Well, there's also some manufacturers forward, for instance, I know that they used to have a system
that the parent could monitor their child driving the car that has that system in there.
And so, you've got big brother looking over your shoulder all the time.
You better not speed.
They've also got speed limit devices in the vehicles and that sort of stuff.
There are some vehicles out there that have some sort of assistance for a parent to keep a good eye on the kids.
Well, another thing, my insurance company came up with, if you're grade point,
the kid's grade point is good enough, you can get a discount off of that.
I'm sure that these different insurance companies have different incentives to nab you into their layer, if you will.
Yeah, once they kind of get you and get you going, then you're there.
It gets very difficult to change.
I mean, not necessarily to say I want to drop you and go to another one, go find somebody that's going to pick up that 18-year-old or the 19-year-old.
Well, the 16-year-old.
And the 16-year-old's worse.
Yeah.
So, what's your suggestion, Chip? What do we do?
Well, again, it starts with, as parents, it's a good idea to have a clean driving record before you add your team.
Now, again, this is before, this is before, probably before they ever set,
put behind the car.
Now, what's going to happen if your team gets into an accident or gets a traffic violation or something really catastrophic at DUI?
How much you think your rates are going to go up then?
So, it's important, I think, for parents to have clean driving records that I'm going in.
And again, insurance companies are all different.
They're willing to cut deals with you to get your business and you're saying before.
So, the way I'm seeing this is that when you're young, you get higher rates for insurance.
As you get older and you mature, your rates kind of level out.
Go down to some respects if you're a good driver.
And then when you hit that certain age of what you were going to go there.
I knew you were going to go there.
The rates go back up.
You know, present company may be included, I don't know.
Isn't that the fake what, you know, the fact where they up and then they level and they go up again with older drivers.
Because there's a lot of folks who shouldn't be driving.
Yeah, we found it to be the case.
So, if you look at it, it's a relatively short window you have to enjoy decent insurance rates.
Basically, from the time from maybe you're 25 until until your late 50s after that.
Outside of that, your insurance rates are going to go up.
Well, here's a thought to go back to the teenage thing.
If you are a bad driver, if you got lots of tickets and you're at a high rate,
is it possible to get your parents, the kids' grandparents, to get that child on their insurance when we assume
that they have a better driving record than you do as a parent?
Interesting.
I've got two, two of my granddaughters are on our insurance policy.
They live in our house.
That's part of the criteria they have to live in your house with you.
The third granddaughter still lives with a mother, so she can't be on my insurance,
but she is on her mother's insurance.
So, it can be gone.
If they're in your residence or if you're their legal guardians,
now I've seen the number of cases where grandparents have adopted their grandchildren for whatever reasons.
Yes, I mean, if your child is off in college, if you're a grandchild of a college,
but you're still their legal guardian, yeah, then you can do it.
Interesting.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
It's kind of sort of.
Well, Chip, Wallet Hub, what is Wallet Hub?
Wallet Hub is a personal finance website primarily.
We offer a number of tools to help folks make sound financial decisions.
We have budgeting apps, and we have credit card recommendations,
and all sorts of guides for what types of credit cards to look at.
We offer free credit scores, credit reports.
You can sign up for an account, and you can view your credit scores regularly or updated regularly.
And to shoot down the myth here, that just by reviewing your credit score,
does not affect your score.
You can review your credit score 100 times a day if you want.
It's not going to affect your credit score.
What does affect your credit score?
Well, the one thing, the biggest thing that affects your credit score is your payment history.
Right.
So, if you're if you're continually laid on payments,
if you're using too much of your credit limit, that's going to affect your credit score.
So, it's always a good idea.
Always pay at least the minimum amount, of course you want to strike for more,
because you don't want to be using up too much of your credit.
If you use too much of your credit limit, the lenders are going to look at that as a sign
if maybe you're not managing your credit responsibly,
and that's going to affect how your ability to obtain credit in the future.
And the one thing that I go to is buying a new car.
Yeah, it'll definitely affect that.
It will definitely affect that, because you can still get a car loan with a fair or average credit score,
but don't expect to get any of these favorable interest rates that you're always seeing on television.
You're going to get a pretty steep interest rate on top of that.
Chip, it's great to talk to you.
We thank you very much for joining us on this Saturday, sir.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
Yeah, really appreciate it.
All right, we'll talk to you.
We'll talk to you again soon.
Chip Lupo.
We look forward to it.
Yep.
Hey, coming up, Jeff has the cruise event's calendars.
And I got the stories of making automotive news headlines this week.
It's all just a head coming to you live this weekend from the heavy hideout in Brooks, your Texas.
Stay with us.
You awarded one again.
Will time car talk show continues after this quick break.
Well, we hope that it was going to do that.
But David's not here to turn up the music.
And I don't know what he's got going on over there.
But you can see.
See, you know what?
No, no, switch back to us.
We'll get back to that in just a minute.
Why don't we just go ahead and do the next segment?
Shall we?
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Okay, so let's try the cruise in and events calendars.
Jeffrey has that.
Are we sponsored or anything?
No.
Okay, good deal.
Well, we got legends, cars, and coffee.
This is for next Saturday at Adam Tennyson's custom car wash and detail.
It's in a rends this past near you, Michael.
Actually, something.
Oh, right.
Yeah, just just about 220,000 miles.
Just down the coast.
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Anyways, it's going to go on there.
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Participants can expect appearances from jokers, ocean side, cleaning service,
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Not far from Mike.
Texas GatorFest Car Show 2025 is their Fort Anowac Park and Anowac Texas, Michael.
Check that out.
GatorFest Car Show.
It's next Saturday from the starts at 9am.
Participants will receive a swag bag t-shirt and Gatorhead trophies.
Gatorhead trophies.
Gatorhead trophies are going to be awarded.
Remember those used to buy those at the at the stuckeys?
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I actually have baby Gators.
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Oh yeah.
Yeah, it's very cool.
Yes, the 57 Bob Bowers Civic Center.
Do you really have that?
I do.
I'll show you the next time you come over.
Oh my god.
Bob Bowers Civic Center, Port Arthur.
Same thing down there.
They got stuff for the kids.
They got raffis.
That was a little closer.
Yeah, that was a little closer.
Colorado Country Fair in the rodeo car show.
That's in Columbus, Texas.
That's an next Saturday.
Go out and enjoy that.
And then you got cars, coffee, hosted by Fearless Performance.
Next Sunday, that's in Huntsville, Texas.
So you go to the car show and then you can go visit the prison museum.
All that stuff.
See your uncles.
Yeah.
See my uncles.
Or I can go see my cohorts on the in-will time car talk.
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Coming up, we're going to have this week's news headlines right after this quick break.
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Well, I did.
He got, he gave you the finger, you just didn't catch it.
No, that's the, that's the fickle finger of fate award.
Oh, you remember that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What was that from?
That hand.
Thank you.
Sock it to me.
Talk it to me.
Before your time, David, the fickle finger of fate award.
Yeah, he's still paying high rate insurance because he's too young.
Shut up, David.
We don't want to know how young you are.
Some of the stories making automotive news headlines, did you see about, see this that happened yesterday?
Trump administration will enforce laws that require foreign workers have proper authorization to be in the United States,
according to the White House.
After immigration authorities rated a Hyundai LG Energy Plant construction project over in Georgia.
Quote, any foreign workers brought in for specific projects must enter the United States legally and with proper work authorizations.
It's always been that way before all of this big mess happened in the border.
White House spokesman, spokesperson Abigail Jackson says President Trump will continue delivering on his promise blah, blah.
The operation was the largest single site enforcement in the history of Homeland Security across the United States,
according to Stephen Schrank, Homeland Security Investigations Chief for Georgia and Alabama, who spoke at a press conference.
Schrank confirmed.
475 workers were arrested.
Most of them Korean nationals following a multi-month probe.
It was carried out with collaboration across several agencies, including US immigration and customs enforcement, FBI, DEA, CBP, IRS, US marshals, and Georgia State Patrol.
I mean, the Barbie was there.
No Boy Scouts or anything.
How in the world do you get 400 people in the country at one time?
No, because they have to have a green card to work.
I believe it's the green card.
It's a work permit.
I know somebody that currently has one.
It's a big deal to him to keep it.
Whatever port of entry you come into, they're going to ask.
The sweep went beyond the Hyundai LG joint venture uncovering a web of subcontractors and subcontractors supplying labor to the site.
Those detained were found to be unlawfully in the US and working illegally.
Some having crossed the border without authorization, those.
Others entering under the visa waiver program without work rights and others overstaying legal visas.
Hyundai's Georgia industrial site known as a meta-plant America is designed to produce as many as 500,000 hybrid and electric vehicles a year.
Employ up to 12,500 workers by early next decade.
Oh my God.
Did they have a train roll up there to load them all?
I don't know.
Because the bus wouldn't hold 400 buses.
But you know what?
If somebody gets hurt or if there's a tragic death, they're going to say,
well, you weren't supposed to be here anyway.
So we're not going to, you know, on a lawsuit or something.
That happened in Houston where a builder was building a home in the home collapsed on a worker that was,
I think, 16 years old.
It didn't speak English and you never hear anything after that because they just pushed into the table.
And that's what would happen to that.
They pushed that out of the table.
Under the table.
There's a bunch of people in trouble today.
Betcha.
We.
The first ever vehicle quality and pricing index from the Dave Canton Group DCG reveals which automotive brands are delivering the strongest mix.
Of reliability and affordability at a time when consumer budgets are under pressure.
He takeaways from the QPI.
Buick Mazda and Toyota lead the mainstream field for overall value.
Lexus and Cadillac rank highest among luxury brands.
Brands with heavy reliance on full-size trucks.
Ford Chevy GM fall lower in the rankings due to high transaction prices.
Mr. Jeep and Ram occupy the bottom tier of the index.
That was an interesting story.
In 2025, availability pressures are reshaping demand.
Buick, for example, topping the QPI with a 7% drop in average transaction price and the fewest reported problems among 100 vehicles.
While also posting one of the industry's top market share gains in the first half of the year, Jeff.
Toyota's strong showing reflects its enduring reputation for value.
While Lexus similarly balances luxury with long-term reliability.
By contrast, higher priced brands with more reported dealership visits including premium truck lines and technology heavy luxury vehicles ranked lower.
No surprise there.
Go ahead and make comments if you'd like.
No, I mean, I'm just thinking, yeah, make sense.
The police in Midland, Texas accused the former general manager of Midland, Mitsubishi, of stealing between $30,150,000 out of the big variant.
Sammy Rodriguez is facing third-degree felony theft charges.
He was arrested August 26th according to the Midland County Sheriff's Office.
He also is accused of credit or debit card abuse, another third-degree felony jail record show.
In the 40s accused Rodriguez Jr. of theft by deception, embezzlement might be to tell you about embezzling.
Forgery and misuse.
No, but I know somebody got fired for embezzlement.
Oh boy.
Okay.
And I know the person.
Oh my god.
I'll never see him.
Don't leave me.
Yeah.
Forgery.
Forgery and misusing company funds over several years according to local CBS affiliate COSA TV.
Rodriguez Jr. worked at the dealership from late 2019 through May of 2024.
Midland, Mitsubishi closed in May.
The former owner's momentum automotive group filed for bankruptcy in August to 24 according to federal bankruptcy records.
Rodriguez Jr. also is accused of threatening workers, altering financial records, manipulating deals and jamming communication between employees and the dealership owner.
Reportedly Rodriguez Jr. did not register about 150 vehicles with the state and took payments from customers without following through.
Wow.
Investigators found nearly a million dollars in questionable checks issued to Rodriguez Jr. between 2020 and 2024.
He also allegedly altered payroll records to boost his monthly salary.
What I find really interesting about that is in Midland, Texas, they were selling Mitsubishi's.
They were selling them.
Well, they were doing something with them.
They had them there.
That's the surprise.
Yeah.
Well, apparently he was selling them out from underneath the dealership.
I sell them out the McDonald's.
I just don't understand.
Now, that's, yes, that's wrong.
It's criminal.
How do you have a business?
How do you have it?
Who's watching the numbers?
Where's your, where are your audits?
Well, apparently, apparently the owner of the dealership had no clue.
You bought it a floor plan.
I'm thinking momentum.
Isn't that another big corporate thing?
Yeah.
It's not as big as an alternation or a Penske or anything, but yeah, they're big.
Yeah.
So he made it.
It's a Mitsubishi deal.
But we're not.
But we're not.
I have a follow-up to this.
Uh-oh.
Rodriguez Jr. allegedly issued fraudulent payroll checks, directed employees to issue checks for his checks for his personal benefit.
And misused a business American express card.
No.
Rodriguez Jr. is also accused of using company checks to buy personal vehicles and recreational water craft.
And to pay, and to pay credit bills.
The judge sent Rodriguez Jr.'s bail at $900,000.
He was being held in Midland County Central Detention Center as of the afternoon of September 4th, according to jail records.
And he paid his bond in cash.
On a stolen credit card.
Homogeneity.
Yeah.
Buy some today is a little five for the jailer.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Well, I thought that was pretty nice.
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