Am I hosed? (driving record)

[FN FAL]

But yes, if you have a clean record, or at least mostly a clean record, then you don't have anything to worry about. Just keep it that way. I haven't gotten a speeding ticket or even a parking violation. Just follow the rules and don't drive like too much of a moron and it's easy to do.

Just follow all the rules is easy to say...hard to do. for one, if you are driving the speedlimit on the beltways I drive on during rush hour traffic, you are going to be the odd ball out. In fact it's quite dangerous to go against the flow when traffic is heavy.

In addition, if I wanted to take the time to follow you for a while, I could find and list reasons that could get you pulled over and written a citation. You're going to forget a turn signal and pull out of a private lot of a convenience store without making a complete stop (you DID know it's against the law to enter a highway or road without making a complete stop, even when there is no stop sign didn't you?), you could miss the reduced speed sign when you were babbling on the cell phone, cross a solid line on the road, etc.

There's more to not getting a ticket than just telling someone to "follow all the rules" homey and cops don't come to your house to get cats out of the trees either...just in case you didn't know.

 

[wheelsup]

By the time of the interview haven't the recruitment people already reviewed your application? I'd think that the company wouldn't waste its time by bringing people in that automatically disqualify them from working there - i.e. if you get an interview you're set, just don't give them a reason not to hire you .

Or maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I'd run my company if I had one...so just be ready to explain why you got them, circumstances on them etc. etc.

If the application doesn't ask about speeding tickets then you're ok, the company doesn't focus on that. Take AirNet for example, I don't recall the application asking about traffic violations - it seems to me that the company would want people that 'drive fast' cause they'd be like than in the plane "we deliver time" is their motto !



~wheelsup

 

[pilotman2105]

There's more to not getting a ticket than just telling someone to "follow all the rules" homey and cops don't come to your house to get cats out of the trees either...just in case you didn't know.

Ya know, you went through the training to learn how to drive. You got the license. So at some point, you must have learned how to drive correctly.

I never said that you had to drive like a perfect angel. But if you don't drive 20+ over the speed limit, use reasonable caution on the road, and don't drink while driving, I'll be willing to wager that you won't get bothered by the cops. Now then, if you have a better suggestion as to how to avoid getting a ticket other than "following the rules," I'd like to know who you are paying off.

And as a side note, 1) I nearly always signal, 2) I do stop when it is required prior to entering a road, and 3) I make and effort to always know the speed limit. Hence why I haven't been pulled over.

 

[FN FAL]

By the time of the interview haven't the recruitment people already reviewed your application? I'd think that the company wouldn't waste its time by bringing people in that automatically disqualify them from working there... Or maybe I'm wrong, but that's how I'd run my company if I had one...so just be ready to explain why you got them, circumstances on them etc. etc.

I think at the regional level they interview people just to watch them squirm. They may or may not know all your stuff good and bad, when they see you at the interview. Why waste the money, they are only going to do the background checks on the people they are intending to hire. I think at the interview they are looking at you like you are a big, fat, juicy piñata, and they are going to poke and hit you with sticks just to see what pops out.

They will verify what you say with the appropriate background checks later...which you the piñata, will pay for anyway.

 

[nitrogen]

Reasonable man

Don't listen to these idiots.

They are for the most part the same people who told the teacher on you when you threw a paper airplane in class.

They're also the same anal retentive weaklings who will be pushed around their whole lives by a system they don't have the guts to ever challenge no matter how corrupt or unsensible it might be.

Use the reasonable man theory. Don't make anything a habit. Don't get boxed in as a habitual speeder. Don't let yourself become portrayed as someone who is in constant defiance of authority. Also remember that there are a lot of issues that are important in getting hired at any airline. Durin the 1990's, when UAL was hiring big, traffic tickets were a huge deal to them. So were exact numbers in your logbook entries. You could get bounced from an interview simply for a mathemetical addition error on a single page whether it was in your favor or not. It was run by the HR dept and it was totally screwed up. Their success rate at one point was 16%. Ludicrous for people who were statistically qualified for the job.

Simply put, most airline interviewers who are pilots would never turn down a very qualified candidate for a few speeding violations. An HR psychological profiler might turn you down for the way you sit in your chair.

I wouldn't sweat the tickets unless they show a real contempt for authority. These sycophants will all squeal now and I can almost hear them crying how important rules are and how we must never break one.

You'll be fine. Just don't let the squealing rules police get to you.

I got hired with 6 tickets on my record. Nobody even asked me about them because they were all minor and for different things and didn't show a set pattern. But I'm sure the crying rules police on this board will soon be all over me.

 

[FN FAL]

Ya know, you went through the training to learn how to drive. You got the license. So at some point, you must have learned how to drive correctly.

I'm just playing titty twister with you buddy.

It is true...I bet I could follow anyone for a half hour and get the goods on them. Sooner or later they will be going too slow, too fast, too exactly the speed limit, not use a blinker, have a light go out, stop over the white line at the traffic light, not come to a complete stop at a stop sign, or right turn on red, or a left turn on red from a one way street to a one way street, go through a light just as it changes red, cross a solid line, fail to yield the right of way. And please have some brews in you when you do this stuff...then it's like a 1,500 dollar enhanced benefit fund to the state.

Yes...following the rules does help, but it is not the only factor. Being alert helps also. That's why I was able to have fun on my bikes for all these years and not get a ticket. Knowing the rules...staying alert.

And if you don't think driving EXACTLY the speed limit can't be used as probable cause? Hahahaha...it's how you work it baby...who drives EXACTLY the speed limit? Nobody...just people with something to hide.

 

[Crizz]

None of you guys know this guy. None of you guys were there for any of these incidents. This guy admitedly "was stupid" almost 5 years ago for his speeding tickets. He recently had some bad luck with Bueford T Justice.

Quit kicking the man. He came on here and asked a honest question and hasnt been back to defend himself.

I guarentee most every one of the holier-than-thou posters routinely make the same mundane mistakes that he did, but didnt have an anal cop watching at the time.

 

[pilotman2105]

Apology

My apologies for coming across as an anal prick. I'm a little testy on this subject at the moment as someone did just hit me a month ago. Not my fault according to the cop. The guy that hit me says otherwise. I guess that I just happened to be the one that was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now I've got to try to get his insurance to pay to fix my car, get my car in the shop to get fixed, and take my time and energy to deal with it.

So I'm a little a little annoyed at the moment with people who don't pay attention on the road.

Safe driving.

 

[flyifrvfr]

I've had four DWi's in the last year and had my license suspended for eight months. I had seven wreckless tickets in the last 2 years and was caught while driving on the suspended license. My question is does this look bad?

 

[TonyC]

...who drives EXACTLY the speed limit?

I do - - that's what cruise control is for.

 

[jarhead]

flyifrvfr

Just explain to your prospective employer that you just had a string of bad luck. They will probably see your explanation as valid, and just ignore the clean record of the 95% of the other thousands of applicants for the job you want, and give you a leg up on it, in my opinion, because you're so honest and good lookin'

 

[bobbysamd]

Bad drivers

Sooner or later they will be going too slow, too fast, too exactly the speed limit, not use a blinker, have a light go out, stop over the white line at the traffic light, not come to a complete stop at a stop sign, or right turn on red, or a left turn on red from a one way street to a one way street, go through a light just as it changes red, cross a solid line, fail to yield the right of way.

Uhhh, you're not talking about Denver (California) drivers, are you?

[W]ho drives EXACTLY the speed limit? Nobody...just people with something to hide.

I do, and I have nothing to hide. I second the comment about use of cruise controls. If people realized that signal light timing was based on speed limits and they drove the limit, they would find that most of the time they would cruise through greens safely and not have to drag race from red to red.

The Five Hazardous Thought Patterns taught in ADM also apply to driving as well.

 

[bobbysamd]

Driving record

I've had four DWi's in the last year and had my license suspended for eight months. I had seven wreckless tickets in the last 2 years and was caught while driving on the suspended license. My question is does this look bad?

Uhh, yes.

 

[skyking1976]

Re: Bad drivers

Uhhh, you're not talking about Denver (California) drivers, are you? [/B]

Don't even get me started...

 

[Billy Madison]

None of you guys know this guy.

Oh really. I know this guy. The guy drives like an animal.

Billy