TVC Pro Driver?

I have been a TVC affiliated attorney for several years. I have done many many cases for TVC drivers. I am no rookie - have been practicing criminal and traffic law for 20 years and have never had a disciplinary complaint. I have gotten some good results for, and compliments from drivers. Some have been back as privately paying clients. One TVC client for whom I got a very nice outcome has called me Johnnie Cochrane for truckers.

The way I understand it, a driver pays TVC $50 a month and $295 for an actual ticket. I have made some workable fee agreements with TVC in the past, but I am told their goal these days is to pay attorneys $125 per ticket. A year or two ago their goal was to pay the lawyers $200. It's gotten ridiculous.

There is a truism in life - you get what you pay for. probably half the cases I've done with TVC clients are misdemeanor traffic offenses for which you can go to jail. Jail is very uncommon on a traffic case, but you're crazy if you want to be a defendant looking at possible jail time with a $125 lawyer sticking up for you. Not a $125-an-hour lawyer, a $125 lawyer. As others have suggested, stash the money you would send TVC. when you actually have a ticket, you'll be many dollars ahead.

And, I can also report a series of drivers, new TVC clients, contacted me recently about "MVR cleanup". It is a 25% case - not something TVC pays for, but we affiliated lawyers are supposed to offer a 25% reduction from our regular fee. Evidently TVC sales reps claim their lawyers can clean up old trouble on your DMV history. I don't know about the other 49 states, but no can do here. Because of the number of people calling about MVR cleanup, I believe it was an outright lie told to sell memberships. Just one person's opinion.

 

I have read all these statements posted here about what a horrible place TVC is, and I can't beleive what I'm reading!
I was a subscriber to TVC from 1994 - 2005. I used them several times to assist me in defense against bullie cops, and bad DOT cops, and I must say the I was very happy with the out come in every case.
In my opinion TVC is a very worthy adversary in protecting the drivers from being railroaded in Kangaroo courts, and jurisdictions that profit from running traps to bag a truck driver. I am very well aware of drivers that are never wrong, and sometimes they do things they shouldn't do. Thusly they expect TVC to get them out of it, and it can't be done in 100% of all cases.
Then there is the locality of the offenses. In some parts of the United States there are traps set to bag a driver. The local jurisdictions know these places, and usually the officers involved. Thus it makes the complaint more beleiveable when they come in. In other areas the enforcement is more honest and those are also known to the local jurisdictions, and when a complaint comes in accusing a enforcement offical of an offense, well...it is hard to swollow knowing a offical is honest and hard working. Those are most generally the complaints that are not won.

 

Only one post and it's defending TVC. I think we've seen that played out in this thread before.

 

I usually tell them that my wife is a lawyer and they go away. Math wise- nothing these dumb witted idiots spill adds up. I have had one ticket in the past 5 yrs and it was for excess speeding and was completely my fault. I used a local attorney and had it thrown out providing I take an online defense course. Paid the fines, learned my lesson, and knock on wood wont speed again.

 

Exactly. I was gullible enough to sign up. The sales person said they could request a jury trial and get it dropped.....not so at least in Oregon. Lawyer had court date pushed back 3 times and told me not to show up, even though the letter from the court says I have to be there, which I will. When I call the lawyer to get updated on his plan, he tells me there is nothing he can do for me. Why did I pay the money? I can show up and do at least nothing for me. What a scam.

 

I would flip open my phone when I walked by the cuties pitching that crap.

You could always ask them if they want to get naked with you......

Don't ask the guys! They probably would!

 

Their sales people are pushy! I was roped in to talking with them in Ohio once and they wanted all my information right then and there. When I asked if they had some information I could read on my own time and think about, they got a little standoffish but then reluctently gave me one of their packets to read so I could consult with my business advisor. I gave them my home phone # and they probably called five times before my parents finally said "Look, we're not interested. Stop calling us."

Isn't there some type of profit-sharing incentive? It seems like a vague pyramid scheme the way I was reading it.

 

pre-paid legal good, TVC bad. Is this what I'm hearing?

I was ready to sign up until I looked at the price and all the stuff they said they covered? way to cheap to cover all that, towing, battery boost "anywhere in the
World" not just USA and Canada AND $50,000 AD&D. lol

 

MLM but i don't think all pre-paid are the same or that multilevelmarketing is necesarily a bad thing. Avon and Tupperware is MLM. (not that i'd know )

 

TVC pro driver? These people are amazing. Do not give them any of your information, unless you are prepared to lose your money. Even if the rep ASSURES you that "nothing will happen UNTIL they hear back from you." They ran my info and deducted their double payment immediately and now I'm screwed. Yeah, yeah I know...I gave them "authorization"...I would have NEVER gave them my info if the rep hadn't insurred me that NOTHING would happen until they heard back from me. Such integrity. Filing a complaint with the bbc when I finish here, then on to the truckstop where this rep was located.
I had a therapist, during a psych eval, tell me once that I expect too much out of people...I just expect people to be honost and to do what they say.