Help with violations. “OPERATE VEHICLE WHILE TEXTING"

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  1. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    no bro, it’s my dads company. We’re a small outfit of 2 trucks. We don’t run inward cameras or anything :/
     
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  3. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Can you prove you eyes were on the road? No. Without a driver cam it's a matter of your word versus the trooper's word and the judge will believe the trooper. You can bring call/text records to court but that will not prove where your eyeballs were looking at the time in question. Are you a citizen?
     
  4. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    Central Valley, CA companies, especially with immigrant drivers are not generating great safety records and no tickets. They have a heck of a reputation, bad. Almost every problem I ever had West of OKC involved some fly-by-night Central Valley, CA company with clapped out equipment.
     
  5. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    what does me being a citizen have to do with anything? I have a valid CDL, that’s all that should matter.

    He specifically put “texting while driving”

    if I can get record showing there were no texts being sent or received, that makes his initial statement moot? Is that not how that works?

    and if my eyes weren’t on the road, my truck would be going all over the the place right?

    however I was straight as an arrow because I was paying attention.

    but you are correct, I cannot prove my eyes were on the road, but I hope I can provide enough clarification to show that I indeed was not on my phone texting.
     
  6. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    You might be able to get that charge dismissed, but that's the least important charge,
     
  7. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    The judge is alwasy going to see the words of the officer as accurate unless you prove they are not. America isn't as tribal as every other country where the only important thing is your tribe is always right, no matter what. That seems to be what you want. Hold on, we are headed that way and will be come just another dirty, crowded, dysfunctional 3rd world country like those other countries.
     
  8. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    I'm just asking to see if that is ONE MORE THING that makes your company, maybe you, EXACTLY like the stereotype of Central Valley, CA trucking companies and drivers I've had experience with. So far, nothing suggests anything except that Central Valley stereotype. If you don't like the stereotype, blame the many thousands of other drivers from Central Valley, CA leaving a wake of tickets and accidents in their wake. I work against the stereotype people first want to put on me by NOT doing absolutely everything that stereotype typically does. Some people just want to complain and make it illegal to notice what is obvious.
     
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  9. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    The cop says otherwise and gave you some fancy paperwork.
     
  10. snicrep

    snicrep Road Train Member

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    Theres an ad in the loves shower door that advertises a company that tries to fix these problems
     
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  11. mrbhatti

    mrbhatti Light Load Member

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    I get your point, but not all immigrants are bad drivers, just like how not all naturalized citizens are good drivers.
    Ok, to clear this up, I was born in LA. I’m not a foreigner lol. I understand your gripe with the Central Valley folks, because majority of these people ARE my people. The Punjabis,
    And Sikhs.

    And I see them do egregious stuff all the time, but it’s not all of them, just like not all natural born citizens (ie me) aren’t the worlds most perfect drivers.
     
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