speeding ticket help?

Question

i have a CDL and this ticket was in my personal vehical and 15 mph over the posted limit .according to fmcsr two of them in a 3 year period would cost me my job can someone help

Answer 1

My brother is a truck driver and he faces the same problem.

His secret is, 1. Always take the ticket to court. 2. Keep postponing the court date. Eventually when he does have to go to court, the cop has forgotten about it (he says a lot of times they won't go to court anyway because they have have to do it on their day off and they don't even get paid for it). When the cop doesn't show up, the case is dismissed. This is in Florida, and this is what he says, I don't know if it's true, but he seems to knw what he's doing.

I guess he knows what he's doing because he always gets out of them.

I've seen it work for him more than once, thumbs down me if you want to. LOL! I'm not saying to break the law. But by the same token, not all cops are honest (ask Rodney King). I've had cops speed up like they were going to ram the back of my car to try to get me to speed up so they could give me a ticket. And who hasn't had a cop pull you over claiming you were speeding when you know dang good and well you weren't just so they could give you a seat belt ticket?

Not all tickets are fair and truckers are a favorite target of LE.

Answer 2

As a long time police officer I can tell you that the suggestion of "delay, delay, delay" and "hope the officer doesn't show up for court" are poor tactics at best. Every police agency that I know of pays their officers to go to court and most officers do, in fact, appear. In my eleven years of police work i have written probably over 1000 tickets. I have missed traffic court once. I would guess that most officers have consistent appearance records.

Since your job depends on beating the ticket, you better do some homework. Look into how your speed was measured. Was it a laser or radar. If so, find out your state's laws on training requirements of officers using these devices. You will find that many agencies don't send their officers to these kinds of trainings and, oftentimes, an officer is not officially qualified to use a speed measurement device of a certain type. This would be enough to win a dismissal. If it was a paced speed, ask the officer to produce speedometer calibration documentation for the car he was driving that day. Many officers fail to produce this kind of documentation and this will often be enough to earn a dismissal. Many officers will not even be able to remember what car they drove on a particular shift so they could not possibly produce such documentation.

Learn everything that the law requires in your state for a speeding conviction and attack each point. If you convince the judge that the state failed to meet even one of those points, you will probably get your case dismissed.

Good luck!

Answer 3

If you think that postponing the court date will save you think again. going to court is part of the job. I have had people tell me they will take me to court on my day off, great OT. Cops don't pick on truckers . I worked an interstate ,highway patrol, and to he honest truckers were rude reckless,and use the size of their vehicle to intimidate other motorists I did not have to look for truckers they would s---up right in front of me.

Answer 4

"Cops don't pick on truckers ."

Right. I guess you haven't been a trucker. People dart in and oit in front of you, make you slam on brakes, etc., and if you hit them, it's automatically your fault because you're one of those "wreckess truckers".

And we all know honest, trustworthy, and reliable CHP is don't we? Just ask Rodney King. LOL!

I say postpone it as much as you can.

Answer 5

YES PROBBALY. THE BEST THING IS TO STOP SPEEDING .... TRY TO FOLLOW THE SPEED LIMIT. :)