Company says i have to pay for illinois signal light violation of $100 but take $900

Campbellton, FL has a camera posted at their only traffic light on US 231. It has variable timing and sometimes I wonder if they aren't watching it on the surveillance camera also posted at the same intersection--waiting with their finger on the button. I stop for that light no matter what color it is and wait for it to go green again. I have waited as long as three minutes for it to cycle, yet I have also seen it from a distance take less than 30 seconds to cycle.

I waiting... One of these days some nazi driving a car with lights is gonna question me on why I stop for green lights.

 

In Maryland they have speed cameras integraded into red light cameras so when you speed up to beat the light,they get you for speeding!

 

I think your right.

 

You, too?

Denny Crane would be impressed, anyway.
(See above.)

That depends on who you ask.

That's if it's viewed from a safety standpoint.
When it's a revenue generating venture, it's an entirely different standard. As long as the money derived from the fines is safely deposited in the city's bank account, how it was obtained is considered a non-issue. What's right or fair is irrelevant to those on the receivin' end.

Yes.
In more ways than one. :smt003
Would you believe there's a rumor that Illinois is considerin' changin' the State's name to,
Midwestern California
or
Western New York?

As far as their red light laws bein' different, I don't know, ---
other than the fine appears to be $400 less than here on the southern left coast.

I don't know who your carrier is, and I'm not askin', but if it were located here in the Land-0-Fruits & Nutz, the registered owner is considered responsible for the fine if the actual driver can't be determined for whatever reason. No recorded image is one reason.

I doubt if any carriers are requiring that at this time. But if SOMEone doesn't pay up, this state won't renew the license of the vehicle in violation. In the case of an identified driver not payin', they can forget about renewing their vehicle's registration or their driver's license. Even the slightest scent of money distorts logic and reason and righteousness displayed by the powers that be.

Case in point, vehicles makin' legal right turns after stopping for the red light, or just as the light turns red, are sometimes issued citations for running the red light. The courts won't dismiss the charges unless it can be proven that the cited party didn't run the red light. I don't understand how that decision is arrived at. I've been under the impression that one has the right to confront their accuser during a trial. How does one confront a camera?
Innocent until proven guilty?
Apparently not when that silly notion stands in the way of collecting absurd amounts of money generated by scandalous methods. Justice may be blind, but red light cameras seem to see what justice won't (see).

Maybe it wouldn't be as bad if the places that elect to use red light cameras would just come out and admit the real reason and intent for their installation. Here in this city, it's claimed to be in the interest of safety, yet the intersections where they're installed have had a drastic increase in rear-end collisions doing damage to vehicles and injuring some of those involved. Actually, there were very few collisions as a result of running a red light. The intersections were chosen based on the number of vehicles that ran red lights so the city would receive more bang for their buck. Or, should I say the taxpayer's buck? If it were a poker game, it would be considered stackin' the deck and dealin' off the bottom of said deck.

I'm half way temped to picket those intersections with a sign readin' ---
BEWARE
RED LIGHT CAMERAS AHEAD
FINE = $500
DRIVE ACCORDINGLY

I bet doin' that would land me right back in a cell with
Denny Crane.

Sounds logical.
Unless there's Big money involved.
When that's the case, you'll loose your case.
Pay the fine or suffer the consequences of refusing,
plus court costs now.

If you can get the camera to testify to that, you might get an answer. But I bet the fine still stands.
Continue pushin' the issue and risk bein' in contempt of court, and some time in the cooler with bars.
If so, say hi to my pal Denny Crane.

Perhaps.
But judgin' by the court verdicts and cases lost, that defense falls on deaf ears. Is it possible that justice is blind, deaf AND dumb?

 

why didn't he accept the ticket pay it or hire a lawer? Never trust anyone over anything.

 

OH BULL SHEET!!!!!

This is pure CB Radio hoax/rumor crapola!
There can NOT be a human alive these days that would fall for that and if he did them he freaking well deserves what ever they bent him over the tank for!
If he signed a BLANK piece of paper then this moron is a waste of air the mentally handicapped need to live on!

He is also a threat and danger to every driver on the road as he can't have more than 2 live brain cells in his head!

Dispatch can pretty much KMA as MY log doesn't start when he says it does but when I say it does as well it's MY log book and hours not his unless he's driving the freaking truck!

And some security guy handed me a paper to sign that relates to MY pay?
Yeah, Hold you breath while I find my pen!

Where you screwed the story up is:

You start with security then you bring safety in.
He was already in the stupid building to get his BOLs!
Safety would have wanted to see him then and to tell the truth it would have been Payroll who would want to see him on PAY problems!

I would have parked the truck and walked my old arse into the building to safety and said YOU write something before I write something!
That blank paper crapola is just that crapola!

Please do not test our intelligence like this as we're not as stupid as you think we are. We're truckers not morons as a lot of the general population thinks we are!

Your profile shows no trucking experience and this is post 2.
I see a troll or rumor monger!
Please go away!
You pretty much have ruined your reputation worse than a crack dealer has with this post!
Unless you're trying to be funny....
then I apologize!

 

An honest lawyer..that's funny...You should be doing stand-up

 

I don't think I have boots tall enough for this thread.