How not to deal with a speeding ticket

If you get speeding ticket defensive driving will help you better to erase or remove your ticket.

 

I believe the lawyer would cost you as much as if you was to pay a speeding ticket for example with the benefit that he will get it dismissed and NOT get CHARGE with any point's on your MVR.

 

After the law went into effect that all states must report all tickets to the home state in 2002 those defensive driving classes could not remove the ticket or reduce it form the MVR or thats how it was supposed to work. The law also incluuded the stipulation that if you had 3 or more 15+ over the posted you got to take a break for 1st offence of 90 days, 6 months for 2nd a 1 year for 3rd and life for the 4th violation. Ca said BS to the Gooberment and still allows you or did in 2006 to take the course on line or in the class to make a ticket go away!

I finally got rid of my auto insurance I had for years because they were jacking up my rates because of tickets gotten in the truck. It's a money scam and when I called them on it, I told them I was going to drop them for someone who didn't screw me without kissing me and they told me I would not find a company that didn't do that! I almost gave up when I got an application for AARP BEFORE I was 54. I called, explained what I needed and why and they said they did not jack up prices because of my job as a trucker because they understood the difference between the need for speed in the truck to make deliveries OR my motorcycle if I got one on it and being stupid in the car. They were true to their word! I haven't gotten one yet in the car but did in the truck!

It can cost a few hundred for the lawyer but they can keep you out of the court room and driving while they handle the case unless it is a ticket for unscrewing your brain before getting behind the wheel and you might need him to keep you OUT of jail while still sitting in that cell!

Unless you have a gift of gab that makes Matlock or Perry Mason look like bumbling fools and know how to work law, pay the money! If it reduces a moving to a non moving pay the lawyer! Those points will cost you and so will the making the court date in lost revenue which after totaling up will cost you about the same as the lawyer. I am one of those with a lead foot! On almost each occasion where I hired a lawyer the costs have never been above $300 plus fines but on average usually at $200 + fines. Both is about what it will cost you if you show up, fight it and fail and then the hit you get on your insurance costs.

Then there is the deal where drivers just pay the thing. Signing the back of a ticket and mailing it in with a check is pleading guilty and say you screw up in a few years in a bad accident and have these guilty pleas, they will haunt you in that court worse than those fought by a lawyer and changed down from bad (kick in the arse) to slap on the wrist! NEVER EVER just pay a ticket and NEVER believe a cop that tells you some bull crapola line that it won't go on your MVR or be sent to your home state! See above for that information so he can get the cash from you for the ticket!

Yes! There ARE still a few cops that will bull crap you and make you follow him to a ATM, get him the "fine" and give you a receipt and have you sign the back of the ticket and send you on the way! You do NOT have to pay him a penny! You sign the ticket showing you GOT the ticket and the officer will either already have a date written on the ticket for you to show or to have the ticket taken care of OR like in CA the LA area will have a phone number for you to call 1 million times before anyone answers or answers but because getting paper work from a police or patrol office to the county court house can take 3 months before they can tell you anything about it! No really! My last ticket in CA was a get this a 1" over length on the tandems! NO S! ONE FREAKING WHOLE INCH at the Banning scales and the clerk of the court was not working that day in the scale house and it took me 3 months before I wrote a letter to them telling them to either get me the price, court date and costs or drop the charges. 4 days after they signed the USPS return receipt I got a FedX with the costs and dates! 2 months later! No hurry in that broke arsed state is there? That ticket was a pay and forget! Not so for the 65 in a 55! That was a $480 fine, $200 lawyer AND the drivers class on line of $20 to reduce the ticket to never never land! But it was CA and CA will slam you when you sign as guilty!

A lawyer is worth the money!

 

This doesn't apply when you have a CDL. When you have a CDL, you cannot get those points removed until after the 3 year grace period. It doesn't matter if you got the ticket in a 4 wheeler, truck, or moped.

CSA2010 adds to the shenanigans also.

 

Rollover:: Ca said BS to the Gooberment and still allows you or did in 2006 to take the course on line or in the class to make a ticket go away

this changed in the last year or so if you hold a CDL