Speeding Tickets

[kingaira90]

I liked to speed a lot in my late teens (tickets for 15-35 over), until I heard it could hurt my chances at airlines. I say if you have several in a short period hire a lawyer. The BEST part about hiring one is they will appear in court for you. None of the getting in the monkey suite and pleading your case. Sign the peice of paper and be done with it, they will worry about excuses. AND get the lawyer that specializes in traffic fines. The 200-300 will be made up in saved insurance cost. I hired a lawyer on my last 2 tickets when I was 18-19 and the both went away. The second was a set of tickts from a very pi$$ed highway patrolman who sited me for everything under the sun.

I have to say 5 over is silly, sounds like some cop was bored or something. -kingaira90

 

[UM#1]

FWIW - my latest ticket story...56mph in a 35mph (was a speed trap, one of those 2 lane country roads that is 55mph limit but goes thru a small area of 35mph in areas that aren't marked well...it was my first time on that road) and my license was expired (I didn't even realize it til the cop told me...was expired by a week). anyway researched all the stuff about beating a ticket and just decided to go in and try my luck. before you go into the court you get your 5 min with the court appointed attorney. he told me to plead not guilty said I could beat it, BUT I didn't want to have to come back another day for court(it was 2 hours from my house) so when I went before the judge I plead no-contest (same as guilty without having to say "guilty" ), you get a chance to say something, I told the judge I'm a good driver and made a mistake and would like some help/break if anything at all. He dropped the expired license charge, reduced the points to 0 for the speeding and just made me pay court costs and speeding ticket charge ,$130.
One thing I noticed, there are alot of other people being "pushed" thru the court everyday, and I say most where from the trouble-making side of society, dressed poorly with bad attitudes. I dressed nice, had a good attitude and basically got a good judge.
Also I know 2 guys that both had a DUI within the last 10 years, one just got on with SWA and the other is recently at CAL....