'Forewarned is forearmed.' (Wise old proverb) Government keeps assuring us that the long-delayed AARTO (Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences) system will finally begin its full national rollout on 1 December 2025. Is this another false start or the real thing this time? There have been so many false starts to AARTO over the last fifteen years that many of us will no doubt take the attitude 'I’ll believe it when I see it'… Particularly with all the speculation