Need help finding work due to ticket

I’m just trying to put this in perspective a little bit for the masses out there. This guy has an 11 year driving career that was flawless. Think about that. Day in, day out, hundreds of thousands of miles, all over the country in every kind of weather on every kind of road and he rolls down a hill into a drastic speed transitioning area and doesn’t get the rig slowed down quite in time before he goes over the 30 mph line. And for that his career should be over? Come on man. I’m gonna see what I’ve always said about situations like this. There’s those that have been caught in those that haven’t. That’s really the difference. Yes I know some truckers speed all the time. But even those of us who don’t, occasionally miss a sign or a speed transition and we just got lucky.

If I was you original poster I would fight on. Yeah you’ve already dumped quite a bit of money into this but was a little more? If your record has been clean for 11 years I can’t believe they won’t let you reduce it to something much less.

 

Disrespect for veterans (with an honorable discharge) is basically another form of treason.....

--Lual

 

I think you should’ve gone in court and just have tried to reduce the citation to some kind of none moving violation or have them(try) to reduce the speed, but it seems you tried to have it dismissed and/or challenged the court in a county/state that don’t like truckers and the judge to offense to that. I’ve had a red light citation dismiss when I actually contacted the officer before court session if he could reduce my violation to a non moving, he said will see what I can do in court. When my name was called, the judge said Dismiss. I thank the court and officer and was on my way.

 

If you have the money in the bank, it’s well worth the $2,000 to push this to the next step. This is your career, your lively hood.

Unless your Boss can swing a deal with the insurance company that works for him & them you’ll have to start essentially back at ground zero. Going to a crap company like Western Express or the like. You won’t be able to support your family with a job like that.

With a jump from 65mph to 30mph there should be a step down. I know a county road by me in Jersey that had to be changed because a guy beat a ticket. The original speeds were 50mph dropped to 25mph. They had to install a 40mph zone. So now it’s 50mph, down to 40mph, down to 25mph.

It also reads like there were no “Reduced Speed Ahead” signs. With a drop as large as that i would expect one. I would definitely try to find out about traffic code and what is required signage for that large of a speed gap.

However this works out, i wish you the best. It pisses me off that a guy’s whole career can be thrown away by one little oops, that caused no harm to anyone. I would push the lawyer to study up on case law, and traffic code for signage. Somebody may have beat this same ticket elsewhere in the state and set precedence for your case, or you could prove whoever is responsible for the road to be negligent for lack of signage.



***I do know that traffic code says a sign must be visible to the driver from the drivers seat at 400’. So if signs were obscured they would be unenforceable

 

I think in Kansas you can appeal a verdict to a district court.

Your lawyer should be able to handle the appeal based on the braking distance issue and not allowing you, an expert witness to explain it in court.

This would mean that the judge would have to explain to the court why he refused to let you explain this and why he sided with the DA on not allowing an full and complete explanation to happen pertaining to the situation.

 

Kansas is the home of Fort Riley. Keri's husband spent close to 6 months there early in his career. I was reading some of the late replies when I remembered something he told me happened a while back. A man stationed at Fort Riley was on his way home in western Oklahoma when he was stopped by a Kansas state trooper. I know I am morphing this thread a bit but Kansas is a state where the Troopers are taught to tell lies. In fact, the Kansas Highway Patrol is currently the defendant in lawsuits over what is called by the ACLU the Kansas Two Step.

As an OTR driver, I have had issues in Kansas. This man from Fort Riley according to my son-in-law spent 2 nights in jail after the trooper did this to him because of some firearms he had. A lawsuit against Kansas is either about to be filed in Federal Court or already has over what happened to this man I was told was black.

Knowing the above and reading the OP lost in court even with an Attorney troubles me greatly. I have no issues with the good folks that call Kansas home! I just think the Kansas Highway Patrol needs a laxative!