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- 12.02.2011 #71Bobtail Member
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Thank you all for the post on here. You all have made my decision very easy and that is not to use TVC or any other prepaid legal services. As to the Stapes, getting a ticket dismissed by taking deferred adjudication you need to go ask any court about getting that to dismiss a ticket. Under the FMCS guidelines that is impossible and not allowed. I got a speeding ticket in a 4-Wheeler and asked about adjudication or defencive driving and they told me with a CDL I will not be able to do either to dismiss a ticket of any kind moving or non-moving. So as for that i call BS. Rollover thank you for your input, I think i am gonna take your advice and put $50 dollars a month back.
thank you
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- 01.06.2012 #72Bobtail Member
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Its amazing that you would be cited for faulty brakes (the proper spelling, not breaks), and that is somehow not your fault. Every action regarding that truck is the responsibility of the driver, because you are responsible for checking out the truck and trailer prior to moving the vehicle. If you failed to check it properly, or didn't have the balls to tell your company that you are not driving an unsafe piece of junk, then you deserve to get a ticket like the one you got.
As far as you putting away $45.00 into a fund until you reach $1000.00. How far do you think that $1000.00 will go if you are involved in an accident and criminally charged. You couldn't even retain an attorney for that little pittance of your so called "legal fund". Here are some facts for you to chew on, published from the FMCSA report Titled "UNIT COST OF MEDIUM AND HEAVY TRUCK CRASHES"
The cost per non-fatal injury crash averaged $195,258.
Crashes in which truck-tractors with two or three trailers involved was $289, 549.
Fatal crashes average cost was $3,604, 518 per crash. That's no misprint. Over 3 million dollars.
And those are 2006 figures. Lets see, I bet those costs have gone down in the last 5 years. Any betters out there.
How far do you think that $1000.00 legal fund is going to go. That won't even cover the cost to bond you out of jail.
The full report is available at http://ai.volpe.dot.gov
Select "Analysis Results and Reports" then "Crash Reports" then "Cost of Large Truck & Bus Involved Crashes, December 2006.
In 2009, there were 3,215 Fatal Truck Crashes. 42,358 other vehicle fatal crashes.
53,000 Truck injuries, 2,727,000 other vehicle injuries, 239000 property damage due to trucks.
So, how much liability and exposure do you have? And you drivers ##### about having to pay a measly $12.00 a week to have a multi million dollar company backing up you CDL. It's no wonder the general public has such a bad image of truck drivers. Some of you drivers are as dumb as a box of rocks. Maybe TVC isn't a perfect company, but they sure do give you a hell of a lot more value than $12.00 a week that you pay. Ask the families of drivers that were killed due to a fatality that were paid $50,000 because the drivers TVC plan had an AD&D insurance. TVC paid out over $600,000 in the last quarter alone due to drivers having fatal accidents.Will your $1000.00 legal plan protect your family if you had a fatal accident? How about if you are criminally charged due to a fatality. You can call your wife from jail, but what is she going to be able to do for you. Unless she has some deep pockets, not to much. Yea, TVC may not be a perfect company, but than, no company is.Last edited by Stapes; 01.06.2012 at 11.25 PM.
- 01.06.2012 #73Bobtail Member
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Proof is in the pudding.
Since there are so many of you posters that do not believe that I am an owner operator, find attached a copy of my CDL, along with the tickets and the dismissal letters from TVC, and from the attorney, along with other driver testimonials. I have many more. If you would like other proof, I can supply that also. I will post a picture of my truck, along with some of the oversize, over dimensional loads that I have hauled.
- 01.06.2012 #74Bobtail Member
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Some more tidbits for you un-informed drivers
So, what about "THIRD PARTY LIABILITY". Do you even know what it is and how it affects you as a driver? Read the short article I attached regarding third party liability, and then ask yourself, how far your $1000.00 legal fund will go. You don't even have to be at fault in an accident, and you can be charged. Also, read the reports from the FMCSA, that I also attached. Look at the amount of citations written, look at the dollar amount of the fines imposed; up 18 percent between 2007 and 2009. Level 3 inspections are up 17% between 2007 and 2009(over 1,173,000 level 3 inspections; that's 3214 inspections every single day). Regular inspections up 5% between 2007 and 2009 (3,340,000 level 1 and 2 inspections; that's 9151 inspections every single day). FINES IMPOSED: $31.1 MILLION DOLLARS IN FINES IN 2009, UP 18%. I am truly amazed at how uninformed you drivers are of your own industry. You have to be an absolute fool to have no protection on the one thing that allows you to pay your bills and feed your family. Look at all of the billboards attorneys advertise as you go down the road."Call us if you have been involved in an accident with a truck". Those law firms will have a field day with you rocket scientist drivers with your "$1000.00 legal fund". Go get into a bad accident, and them see how much you regret not paying $12.00 a week to protect your family and your livelihood.
Hopefully, this post will make you stop and think about just how exposed you and your family are as a commercial driver. I realize that some of you are going to stick to your "it can never happen to me" attitude, because you are just a bunch of bad ### steering wheel holders, but ask your self this one question: Of all of the accidents that you have seen in the years you have been driving, and all of the accidents listed in the documentation I supplied from the FMCSA, do you think that those drivers got up on the day that they had those accidents and said "Today is the day I'm going to get in a wreck." Of course they didn't. They, like you, thought that it was never going to happen to them.
- 01.06.2012 #75Bobtail Member
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Contact information
If any of you drivers would like to speak to me in person regarding any of the information, and what TVC offers you as a driver, I would be more than happy to speak to you. I can be reached at 800-475-1870
- 01.06.2012 #76Bobtail Member
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Firedemon, I have included a copy of my deferred adjudication case for my Florida ticket. TVC gets deferred adjudication all of the time, so before you post, get your facts straight. And as far as getting tickets dismissed, how can it be that TVC has over a 92% success rate on citations. We get tickets dismissed all of the time, and we get them reduced to non-moving violations all of the time. Again, you don't have your facts straight. More non-factual information posted on the forum. That's the bad thing about this forum, any one can post anything they want, however, I have backed up everything in my posts with fact based evidence. I'm waiting for the same from the rest of you steering wheel holders.
- 06.08.2012 #77Bobtail Member
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I HAVE:
I am absolutely uncomfortable with the TVC way to resolve my driver issues.
Any ticket will cost to me more than just the fine:
- It will raise my insurance rate,
- It will put points in the my driver license, and also
- It will affect my actual and future jobs.
At any situation until now, the attorney got from TVC to help me to resolve the incidents where I were involved, offered a bad representation.
- The first time, a NY Police Officer said that he saw (as per the traffic ticket) a RED TRUCK passes a red light, ok fine.
But, MY TRUCK is DARK BLUE colored, NOT RED.
Your attorney accepts a “negotiation” and I was found guilty on that incident.
I do not know the name of the lawyer who supposedly represents me in court.
- At the second case, I was charged to run 81/55 speed zone.
That is IMPOSSIBLE, because MY TRUCK HAS AN ENGINE SPEED LIMITER THAT DOES NOT LET IT RUN HIGHLY THAN 70 mph, precisely to avoid such kind of incidents.
Anyway, incomprehensibly I was found guilty to run at 81 mph (?).
I received the resolution from this last case directly from the lawyer. This communication shows 3 hard issues, to me.
- Mr. Bettis says:
“You owe a fine of $ 323.00 for the speeding charge. This fine is due by July 13, 2012. Please send your check or money order directly to the Court.
Failure to pay the fine could result in suspension of your license.”
Mr. Bettis has in his own files a copy of my Money Order sent to the Court on 06/06/2011 in the amount of $ 329.- as per his own instructions, it was a previous condition to my (his) first appear.
Did Mr. Bettis look and read my file before go to the Court? I doubt that Mr. Bettis had seen my documents, statements and paper works; either did not show them to the Judge.
- If Mr. Bettis were specialist attorney in driving traffic violations of CDL drivers, the first thing he should do, was to clarify the 3 first points of this letter, to The Court and to us. He didn´t and now I must pay another lawyer, to do this.
- But more irregular at all, is who sign the letter sent to me. NOBODY SIGN IT.
Those issues made me to look for Mr. Bettis attorney record.
At TVC web page, you promise to me, your customer:
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The attorneys at TVC Pro-Driver, Inc. specialize in those areas of law most likely to affect individuals just like you. TVC Pro-Driver, Inc. has built a strong reputation for handling traffic violations of their clients ethically and competently through the court of original jurisdiction. Our specialties include:
- Following too close
- Speeding
- Log Book
- Overweight
- Equipment
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You can count on TVC Pro-Driver, Inc. to stand up for you and make sure you receive solid guidance and representation throughout the course of your case. Our specialties include:
- Moving & Non-Moving Violations Representation
- Serious Traffic Violation Representation
- Pre-Existing Traffic Violations
- Driver’s License Protection
- Traffic Accident Service
- Bail Bond Program
- Cash Appearance Bond Program
- Emergency Travel Reimbursement
- Ambulance Service Reimbursement
- Emergency Towing Service
- Emergency Dispatch Service
- Worldwide Travel Assistance
- Emergency Road Service
- Discount Services
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But, I found that:
- Mr. Wade P. Bettis IS NOT SPECIALIST IN TRAFFIC TRUCK DRIVER AREA.
- I found antecedents of serious violation at the Oregon State Bar.
On Dec. 29, 2006, the Oregon Supreme Court filed an opinion finding that LA Grande lawyer Wade P. Bettis, Jr. failed to provide competent representation to a client in violation of DR 6-101(A) of the Code of Professional Responsibility. The court suspended Bettis for 30 days. The suspension was effective Feb. 28, 2007.
Bettis represented two criminal defendants who were held in the local jail. He confused their identities and had one client sign a jury waiver in the other’s case. Bettis also proceeded to recommend and obtain the jury waiver without first determining whether it was in his client’s best interests to do so. He was ignorant of the factual and legal issues that might have been germane to either client’s cases at the time he presented the jury waiver. Bettis did not know the charges, had not reviewed the charging instruments, and had not obtained or reviewed discovery or conducted any investigation. The court concluded that such conduct fell below the competence standard required by DR 6-101(A).
Bettis was admitted to practice in Oregon in 1972. He had a prior record of formal discipline.
- Two ratings published in knowing ratting pages are:
- The best punctuation is 3.8 in 5 and
- The other only 1 in 10 with the recommendation of “Extreme Caution”.
- Most recently posted on November 4, 2011, I got this comments from a client of him.
“Did not go over my paperwork thoroughly before we went before the judge. Several errors were discovered by the judge, which delayed the discharge of my case.”
All the above creates sufficient evidence to me, to say:
In both cases I was involved did not get a good representation from TVC attorneys, when TVC responsibility is get a good representation, as TVC promise:
“The attorneys at TVC Pro-Driver, Inc. specialize in those areas of law most likely to affect individuals just like you. TVC Pro-Driver, Inc. has built a strong reputation for handling traffic violations of their clients ethically and competently through the court of original jurisdiction.”
TVC said can help me to find a different attorney to appeal the Court resolution and TVC will pay 25% of the attorney fee and I should pay for the rest.
At any time, I did not get a good representation from the TVC selected attorneys to attend any of my cases.
As consequence of the above I resolve:
- I WANT TO STOP ANY RELATION BETWEEN ME AND TVC PRO DRIVER, Inc.
- FROM THIS MOMENT STOP ANY DEBIT AMOUNT TO MY BANK ACCOUNT.
- FROM TODAY, 6/8/2012 YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO DEBIT MY BANK ACCOUNT.
- I RESERVE TO MYSELF THE RIGHT TO INITIATE ANY FUTURE LEGAL ACTION IT DEEMS APPROPRIATE, TO COMPENSATE THE DAMAGES OCCASIONED BY YOUR MISREPRESENTATION AND ADVICE.
- 08.04.2012 #78Heavy Load Member
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TVC is one messed up company! Don't think too many of their employees know what is going on, all they know is how to collect and process credit card info.

Have been trying to cancel my membership for about four months now, every other month they refund one month and then the next month I see a charge for double or triple on my card - has been going on for three months now. This months charge $147.89 - wrote them an email again, since calling is pointless and the ladies are usually pretty rude. Guess I'm going to have to cancel my card after (hopefully) I get a refund and get a new card issued so these bozos don't have my card on file any more.
WORST service/company I ever signed up for!
- 08.04.2012 #79Road Train Member
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have you tried calling your card's customer service?
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The people at the truck stops always harass me, or honestly that's how I feel. If I say no thanks, don't keep asking. They always say "hope you won't need it" or the famous "a guy declined our service and 20 minutes later got a ticket and we couldn't help him". I've heard that story from 3 different reps in 3 different states
Ethan

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