Speeding tiket?

[Future SNA]

I like to consider myself the "master" of keeping speeding tickets off my record. Mostly because I seem to get pulled over for going 10 over quite often(not any more though), but also because way back in the day I had a truck driver/student give me some advice.....so here goes.

Tickets are a revenue source for the county/state, enough said. Whenever I used to get pulled over, instead of just going and paying the ticket, I'd go to the court date, usually a month away, and plead not guilty. Takes all of a half an hour, you don't even have to dress up, and at that time, they'll give you a sentencing date usually 2 months away. Now don't forget, this was when I was in college and I REALLY needed that 3 months to save up money to pay the ticket! Anyways, sometime after pleading not guilty, you need to set up an appointment with the county prosecutor who will be prosecuting you. Typically you can set an appointment the same day as you pleaded not guilty. Talk with them, tell them your a pilot, tell them tickets hurt your career, tell them it was raining at you didn't know the speed limit, PRETTY MUCH TELL THEM ANYTHING, but the pilot thing works great. Truckers use the, "tickets under my name are frowned upon by my employer." What the prosecutor will typically do is double your fine, waive your court fees, and back before they doubled the speeding fines, it was like $110 at the most. Now, it might be a little more, but then again I haven't had to do this in several years. Currently, I have ZERO tickets on my record, and this works like a charm, and saves the insurance. Then again remember, it cost the police department $$$$$$$ to send your ticket to your insurance agency, hence the reason you may have 3, but the old insurance agency has no idea. BUT, don't ever change insurance with quite a few tickets on your record, when applying for new insurance, they are required to do a driving record search, and they'll turn up, and you'll pay out the wazzoo. Hope this helps, it did for me.

 

[hmmm]

Didn't read much of the other posts, don't have time just My 2 cents... to help out. A realists point of view and strategie.

1. Take it to court.

2. Ask court to postpone court date as many times as you can.

3. When finally have to show up plead not guilty no matter what.

3a. By this time the cop may not remember you or may have only you to show up for and doesn't feel like it.

4. Do not opt out of points by going to school since the ticket will show on your record for all time since its their only way to know how many times you've been to school. If you plead not guilty and are given a guilty verdict pay the costs and the ticket will disappear after a specified number of years. I have seen 5 of my speeding tickest disappear this way and many more types of other tickets. Have had 16 on my record. Now have four. Two will always be there since when I was 19 because I went to driving school. Couldn't beleive I will always be penalized because I went to school for those two tickets. All my tickets I took guilty for have disappeared off the standard record that I as a citizen am privy to. The driving school obviously didn't help control me anyway. Two guilties I have taken are still there since only two years have passed since I got them. My bumper too high on my four wheel drive and a turn signal.

5. My girlfriend has no insurance on her car. She had a few to drink the other day and wanted me to drive. I absolutely refused and got a cab for us. I WILL not risk my future any more. I always drive with cruise control on even in a 30 mph zone since I just can't seem to control my need for speed.

6. Get AEPS or other agency to do a background check on your national driving registry. There was a fella who had the same exact name as I and had a much worse driving record. Had to prove with documents to that state drivers license bureau it wasn't me.

 

[Alaskaairlines]

Thanks guys!

I pleaded Not Guilty, so we will see how it goes. I talked to a lawyer and he sounded interesting.

Anyways, I'm driving with cruise control on - I look outside and wonder if I am moving at all. Hey, getting good gas miles .

Are there anyguys here that can bring up an interview or two where they asked about your driving record? And what was the outcome?

 

[bobbysamd]

Speeding tickets

One thing I've learned in my old age is that with traffic the way it is anymore, you gain little by busting the speed limit. The idea is to keep moving and not start and stop, start and stop, ad infinitum. Traffic signals are based on timing and other schemes related to the speed limit in that zone. If you drive the limit and maintain it constantly, as with your cruise control, you'll make it through the lights and will not have to speed.

It's not worth it. The airlines want saints and can find them. Try to limit the number of skeletons in your closet. There are a lot things that are out of your control is trying to forge a career. Your driving record is one of them.

In the meantime, order your driving records from your state(s) and/or the National Driver Register so you at least have the same information that others can obtain about you.

 

[JJJ]

A few years ago I got pulled over for doing 77 in a 55. I plead not guilty, went to court and told them I was a pilot and trying to get hired by an airline and a ticket wouldn't look good. The judge looked at my driving record (which was clean) and dropped the ticket, the $200 fine, and all I had to do was go to a driving class on a Saturday that cost $40. My insurance company doesn't know anything.

Going 10 over the speed limit to get there sooner is like flying 30 kts faster on a 60 min leg thinking that you are going to get there much earlier, when in reality you might be saving a few minutes.

 

[WrightAvia]

I commute by car, an hour one way to get to work. 10 over knocks 10 minutes off my trip. That's 20 minutes on a day of commuting. Times 120 commutes a year and that's 2,400 minutes or 40 hours that I aint sitting in that car.

Ask me what I do with all my extra free time...usually I'm trying to fill in for Mother Theresa now that she's gone, but 20 minutes a day, ten days a month, just isn't enough time to fill those shoes. So I'll settle for getting into my jammies in time for the 10 o'clock news.

I did drive the speed limit yesterday on the return leg of my bi weekly, 240 mile round trip drive to Green Bay though. On the way up, the man was working traffic stops pretty good. The beast must be hungry for all that EAA revenue. We have never seen that many cops with people pulled over on any trip in recent times.

I spied two troopers sitting on 151 where I had never seen them before and I drive that route a lot. I slowed down before cresting this rise that obscured those dudes (as habit dictates) in a spot that would be great for nailing speeders. So this dumb broad in a pint sized suv that was tail gating me, decided to swerve into the left lane in front of a bunch of traffic and floor it....DING...you got it...another one bites the dust. Dumb broad.

 

[acaTerry]

Boo hoo! I want to be an airline pilot and I don't even excercise basic responsibility in a car!
Wet, rainy, dark. Let's go even faster than the speed limit that was set for a dry, lit road.
That cop was picking on me! Waaaahhhh!

Here is a little tip for you guys who can't get it through your heads....Slow the F down.
Can't people get it through their heads? People don't get killed by being careful. Slow down, Mav.

 

[acaTerry]

Come on, somebody bite!

 

[jarhead]

I can't.....I agree with acaTerry

 

[acaTerry]

That's because we're both thinking like Marines...

 

[jarhead]

Strong possibility, aca

 

[PCL_128]

Okay, I'll bite...

The fact is that speed limits (especially on highways) have little to do with safety, and much to do with politics and money. Someone driving 80 instead of the posted limit of 65 is not going to get somebody killed.

The longtime highway limit of 55 mph was never there for safety. It was all about emissions reduction. It was determined that most cars produce much higher pollution when driven above 55, so that's where they made the limit. It's since been raised thankfully, but it's still kept too low because of environmental reasons.

The other reason has already been mentioned: state and local governments make lots of money off of speeding tickets. If they raised the limit to a reasonable speed, then they wouldn't make as much money. They have to keep it less than what most people think is a safe speed so that people will break the limit and the government makes money.

 

[jarhead]

Hmmmm? Guess I must not be helping the various local, county, or state government revenue streams out much. I have not had a speed ticket in over 30 years. I leave in time, so I am not late, and even allow time for a flat tire, or railroad train holding me up. Cruise control, and planning are marvelous concepts

 

[PCL_128]

Hmmmm? Guess I must not be helping the various local, county, or state government revenue streams out much. I have not had a speed ticket in over 30 years. I leave in time, so I am not late, and even allow time for a flat tire, or railroad train holding me up. Cruise control, and planning are marvelous concepts

Why should I have to leave 10 minutes early just because the government sets unreasonable speed restrictions? Sorry, I'll drive whatever speed I feel is safe and do my best to avoid the speed traps. I haven't had a ticket in 6 years, but I almost always drive 15 over the limit. It's all about knowing how to spot the cops ahead of time and how to best blend into traffic. I've never had an accident, and I doubt I ever will that relates to the speed I drive. As I said, driving 80 is no more dangerous than driving 65.

 

[KingAirer]

PCL, its comforting to know that you are so smart, that you make up the rules as you go?? and follow them as you see fit You cant be serious?

You will! get caught one day if you are consitently driving 15mph+. You spotting techniques do not work to well at night when they are hiding do they?

I say this b/c i used to be the one who didnt worry to much about my speed and thought I had the hawkeye. I got caught at nite with a trooper hiding under a bridge behind a hill.

AlaskaAirlines, pleading not guilty when you admit to us that you were? Come on.

JUST DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT, its not that hard, you learn sooner or later.

 

[jarhead]

PCL-128.....let me understand you correctly. You feel it is your god given right to determine which laws can or should be violated, and those which you must obey. Is that correct? Do you feel the same about the FAR's. How about the rule against wife battering. Up to your selection on which ones are ok to violate, because they don't make sense to you? Do you feel it is ok for YOU to drive 80, at night, on a rain slicked road? What do I do if I am on the shoulder on that dark rainy night chainging a tire in the dark. No chance at all that you, in your wisdom, may run into me and kill me. Your statement that speed laws are only for revenue, and not public safety, are laughable. Where do you get this pious attitude, that YOU know which laws to break or how far to stretch them> is 85 mph ok? 95? 120 in your 'vette. Where is it that you, mister public safety commisioner, draw this line? I'd sure like to know. Maybe there is no line at all for you.....just what you can get away with.....until, you kill yourself or someone else.

 

[tittyjet]

Hey, all you sanctimonious boys so worried about breaking the law, the next time your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend hits their knees to slob the ole knob, hope you're in a state where it's not against the law. Oh, don't eat at the "Y" or, stick it in the exit door, either!

My bad, I'll bet you just say, "No way babe, it'd feel real good to blow one down your throat right about now, but, you know, we're in Savannah, and that's in the State of Georgia where that's against the law! We'll just have to wait on our vacation to a more liberal state."

Come on, cut the crap.

 

[jarhead]

If your high class B.J. does not put me in harms way, you can have a billy goat do you. IMHO

 

[tittyjet]

Is that as good as you can do?

BTW, Know the three biggest lies told inthe State of Alabama?

1. My Camaro is paid for.

2. I swear, I didn't know she was my cousin!

3. I was just helping that goat over that fence.

 

[jarhead]

That's as good as I want to do.