Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is RottenDriver.com ?

RottenDriver.com is a place to vent your frustration with the drivers who are incompetent, inattentive, rude, arrogant — anyone who pisses you off on the road — and to see who's rotten and who's not, in your area.

It is completely free.

Q. How does it work?

When you see a driver do something rotten, report him. We'll save your report in the Hall of Shame. Drivers who get reported the most earn a spot in our Top 10 lists for the day, the week or the month, in each area. They also earn our scorn and contempt, and a special place in hell, but that's beyond the scope of RottenDriver.com...

Q. How do I report a driver?

First, create an account by agreeing to our Terms of Use. Then just tell us the license plate. We'll do the rest.

Submitting a report is easy. We give you three ways:

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1. By phone: Call 888-ROTN-123 (888-768-6123) toll-free, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Just speak the license plate and the state. The whole call takes less than 5 seconds (usually). Of course, if you like, you can vent. Tell us what they did, the vehicle's color, make and model, the driver's age and gender... just dump. We'll give you a voice. Add us to your cell phone contacts. (Use that phone safely, though.)

2. On the web: Use our Submit a Report page.

3. By email: Send it to report@rottendriver.com and put the plate in the subject line. We ignore the body.
For example, Subject: . See it Capitalization does not matter.
If the plate is out of state, put the 2-letter state abbreviation before the plate.
For example, Subject: . See it

Q. How do I enable hotline reporting for my account?

Log in to your account.
Click Edit account information
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When we receive a report on the hotline, we need to know that the caller has an account. When you add your number to your account, we'll know to accept reports from that number. We will never call it or share it.

Q. What is my locale?

Your locale is the general area where you do most of your driving and encounter most of your rotten drivers. For our purposes, this is one or more counties. To make the Hall of Shame more relevant to you, we ask for your locale. When you view the Top 10 lists, we only count reports submitted by others whose locales overlap yours. Similarly, reports you submit will be counted in Top 10 lists seen by others whose locales overlap yours.

You tell us your locale by selecting a state, then putting check-marks by the county or counties you're most interested in, in that state. If you want counties from neighboring states, you can repeat the process for the neighboring state. See it

You can designate as large or small a locale as you want. If you don't care what's going on out in the burbs, that's fine. On the other hand, if you want to keep an eye on the whole state, that's fine too. And you can change your locale at any time.

Q. Is there any cost?

No. Our service is FREE.

Q. What are some examples of "rotten" driving?

You get to decide! If you think it's "rotten" — if it makes you feel frustrated, angry, outraged — then it is rotten. Here are some examples of driving behavior that you might consider rotten:

Driving too fast
Driving too slow
Too aggressive
Cut me off
Not paying attention

Stealing my parking space
Taking up more than one parking space
Weaving in and out of traffic
Tailgating or following too close
Privileged/exempt from normal rules

Eating
Reading
Applying makeup
Oblivious/Clueless
Incompetence

These are just examples. You get to decide what you think is rotten!

Q. What license plates can I report?

You can report any non-commercial, non-governmental vehicle. Our Terms of Use prohibit reporting vehicles that are used for a commercial or business purpose.

You can report cars, trucks, motorcycles... any type of vehicle, as long as it has a license plate.

You can report normal ("sequential") plates, personalized plates and most other series and types.

You can report plates from all 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

Q. What if a plate contains a heart, a hand, a star or some other special symbol?

These and other symbols often appear in personalized license plates. When you read the plate, the symbol helps get the message across. For example, you might interpret the heart symbol as the word "love".

But these symbols are just decoration — they do not contribute to the uniqueness of a plate. Leave these symbols out when you report a plate. When a plate appears in the RottenDriver.com Hall of Shame, it shows only letters and digits with no spaces or special symbols.

Q. I reported a plate, but I don't see it in the Hall of Shame. Where is it?

Here are the most likely explanations.

If you reported it by e-mail, have you created an account and did you send it from the same e-mail address you used when you created your account? That address is the only way we know that the report was sent by someone who agreed to our terms of use.
Does the plate you reported have enough reports to show up on the Top 10 pages? Keep in mind that it may take up to 5 minutes for a plate to appear on one of the Top 10 pages. You can always try the History page.
On bad traffic days, older reports can get "pushed off" the Top 10 pages by more recent reports.

Whether your report appears on a Top-10 list or not, you can always search for it on the History page. It shows report counts for any plate, week by week, going back six months.

If you still can't find your report anywhere on the site, log in and use our secure contact form to contact us. Please be sure to identify the report in question.

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