Uh oh, New CDL holder with a 20mph over ticket.

CR England is strict on hiring now, very strict.

 

I'm not going to add anything much because all of the replies have covered most of it. I just want to point out something ALL new CDL holders need to understand. You need to have a good understanding of the tables that are found in 383.51(b) (c) (d).

If I am understanding the question correctly, you did not have a CDL when you got that ticket. If this is right, you don't have to worry about that rule. As a CDL holder, going forward, you do. On an aside. 20MPH over the limit is getting into an area where a cop can actually charge you with reckless driving. In places like Georgia, depending it will trigger their "super speeder" law. Once triggered you get 2 tickets. The first one will be from the local court, and you will pay that fine. Then, later, you will be issued another ticket by the State of Georgia. Non-payment of either will cost you your license.

Georgia's 'Super Speeder Law' defines a Super Speeder as a driver convicted of speeding at 75 mph or more on a two-lane road or at 85 mph and above on any road or highway in the State of Georgia. In addition to the fines and fees paid to the jurisdiction where the speeding offense took place, a $200 Super Speeder state fee is to be paid by the convicted driver. Failure to pay the Super Speeder fee within 120 days of official notice will result in the suspension of the offender’s license or driving privileges. Payment of a $50 reinstatement fee in addition to the $200 Super Speeder fee will then be required to reinstate their license or driving privileges.

I HIGHLY recommend everybody to get the lead out of that right foot when you are driving. I know these newer vehicles are so smooth that you can be going 80MPH and can't tell by feel. My daughter got a ticket in NC a while back.

 

Entry level? With zero experience, you'd have slim pickings even with a good driving record.
Go to Western, learn to pull a flatbed, & keep your nose clean for at least a year.
Only other company I can think of that would accept a 20+ ticket is Metropolitan Express (aka PAM).

 

TMC is the good one for sure. You'll make the most money there. Congratulations.

 

They are the ones with the rainbow TMC on the doors that travel at 63 until I try to pass them at 65, then they speed up to match me. Then I use the PasSmart to get my speed up to 67 and they match it again, blocking me in the left lane until I slow down and get behind them once more. Once I am behind them, they drop it back down to 63. Is that something they were taught in orientation?

 

Got to be frustrating, but I don't think that situation is TMC specific, all trucks basically go the same speed, it's the driver that is the problem. For most of my trucking career, I drove trucks that would barely do the speed limit, and I respected drivers that could go faster. In my day, some trucks did happen to go faster, and it was your duty to get out of their way. Before a slow pass, if any, you'd make sure nobody was coming up the hammer lane. Just common sense. You don't have that today, as all those "fast" trucks have daisies growing around them, and you have this big clump of trucks all going the same speed and why the mega pileups happen, nobody wants or can back out of it as their precious "remaining time to drive" ticks away. A recipe for disaster if I ever saw one. It's something older drivers never had to deal with. We knew our place, and respectfully stayed to the right. That's what we were taught.

 

They lost a high priority major frozen food contract because their drivers consistently messed up on property and while in transit.


when a company loses a contract that nets them millions a year in profit, they tend to make changes fast.

 

And you will get top notch training in load securement, tarping, etc.