Busted exceeding hours of service

They understand court supervision and not ruining your career over minor mistakes.

 

Its already on your CSA ... Employer already knows of the violation ... what again are you trying to do with fighting the ticket?

Should be a non moving violation that carries no points on your license. Show up to court, see if you can get the fines decreased ... or hope the officer doesn't show and the tickets get thrown.

Points are still going to be on your CSA ... and your employer is still going to be pissed at you irregardless of spending money on a lawyer or not.

 

Ive been put out of service a couple of times. Big sticker on windshield and the whole deal. Plus the yelling from dispatch when they understand that the appointment times for loading or delivery has been irrevocably destroyed.

I just cough up the money and roll on. It's only a couple hundred. You can make that back rolling the miles instead of losing more days sitting in court. Im less concerned with the resulting records.

I do try to get craftier and not get caught back then. Ive had a couple inspections that were quite close in time wise and the really big 70 hour OOS potential. Whew. Later if Im running on the 9th hour and I know I have one more hour to drive and see a truckstop, I just pull in and call it a day. That helps alot.

Im not going to give you a hard time. I just offered you how I handled my own OOS then and how I handled time conflicts vs 10 hour limit in my day. I'll just quit for the day at the 9th hour in a truckstop rather than risk getting caught out far from anything.

Remember my time was all paper logs and strictly 10 hour rule, no 34 hour resets or Elogs existed back then. Being a husband wife team was the ultimate solution to log conflicts. Kept that rig ROLLING.

 

First, a warning on an inspection report for speeding is the same as a ticket for speeding points wise. There is no way to fight a warning.

Second I heard the scales and now it seems evidently the patrol cars can pick up the over hours signal the Elog broadcasts. What happens when the Elog is in the red zone it broadcasts a violation signal which can be picked up by the scanner.

 

Well one things for sure, the OP was looking for suggestions and got plenty of them. LOL. We all know if you ask 10 truckers the same question you get 10 different answer

 

How is it the same? He didn't get a ticket or a fine. He merely got a statement reported on his csa. Big difference between the 2 scenarios.

Roadlaw and Interstate trucking are the only resources we have. There might be others but we're rolling the dice as explained by one of the posts. And you'll be spending too much time trying to find anyone else locally.

I've used roadlaw. He got my cali speed changed to log book violation.
I had to use interstate for my last ticket because roadlaw didn't have anyone to use. He got my wrong lane violation changed to a no parking ticket. Still had to pay the fines but NOTHING went on any of my personal records.

2 log book violations. Pay the fines and move on. They won't effect the CDL. Only the CSA. AND that speed warning won't be doing any favors either. But at least it's not a fine and going on your CDL.

 

Let's say 2000 trucks sitting on the cross bronx waiting to cross the GWB, all of them go into the tinfoil violation signal. The law does not cover NYC sufficient density to ticket and OOS 2000 trucks with thousands more coming up in both directions as the sun sets. Might as well close the GWB, no food for NYC once Hunts runs out.

 

I'd be more concerned about the points for speeding
Did he write you for 74?
Hopefully not in a 55 zone