Speeding Ticket in California - Laywer?

Expensive ticket that the OP deserves to pay. More states need to adapt tougher fines for CMV violations. If you attack where it counts, maybe that will reduce the number of idiots driving 80,000 LB trucks.

 

Maybe or maybe not but anything will help. At that speed it will be a tough case but give the lawyer his due. It will be worse if he doesn't fight it. My case was completely dismissed...no points..no fine..no dmv report. However it was for only 65 and the first ticket I had gotten in 25 years.

 

I was about to say that. Dam going 65 in a loaded tanker freaks me out. But 81. Dam I would get pissed if a truck blew by me that fast. Well hope dude has deep pockets. I have my hand out if he wants to donate his money.

 

Courts just want the money. Getting the speed reduction is the thing he must do. EF the fine. If your stupid enough to drive 81 in a 55 then reaching in your pocket and paying whatever fine it is shouldn't be an issue. I'm pretty sure its in the 1000 range. I know what I can do with an extra thousand bucks in my pocket.

 

I think the same whenever I get passed by bottom feeder drivers doing 62 in a 45mph construction zone.

 

the signs saying fines are double in a construction zone does not deter idiots.

 

No...it is about safety...but more so about money than anything else. The NATIONAL 55mph speed limit was done in an effort to reduce fuel consumption during the oil crisis of the 70's. The 55mph truck/towing speed has nothing to do with fuel. The powers that be felt that a vehicle towing a trailer could stop quicker at 55mph than at a higher speed. Plus it is a ticket cash cow for the state. Do you really think that those bureaucrats could give a rats ### about fuel economy? It's all about money.

Actually, that signs states "Truckers-Let 'er Drift-Use Minimum power-Let 'em cool."

I will defend the fact that not 1 person on this forum is perfect, and that every single one of us (including me and you) have done more than 1 or 2 stupid things in our lives. Who are you to chastise and condemn this driver for something that statistics say you have likely done yourself on multiple occasions. It's so easy to see the speck in somebody else's eye yet you can't see the log in your own eye.

I'm pretty sure anything 15 over or more is considered reckless driving. It's more like he's lucky he didn't go to jail.

 

Fight it! Fight it! Fight it! get a lawyer. Most companies will fire you for more than 15mph of the posted speed limit. I fought three incidents in the past, showed in court, cop dint show up, dismissed! Lic. cleaned!

 

I am a libertarian, not an anarchist. If there is a compelling reason, I welcome government intervention. If oil was truly free market and the price you paid at the pump reflected its true costs I might feel differently about the 55mph limit, but oil is heavily subsidized by the US government. I mean the fuel tax doesn't even cover road maintenance, let alone the fiscal cost of military & economic aid intervention in sovereign nations that have large oil deposits. Chevron isn't footing the bill, taxpayers are. And says nothing of the human cost (ours and theirs), let alone the negative impact on our climate.

As far as local pick-up/delivery in a STAA truck -- you are correct that is exempt. The caveats are that there must be no legal alternative route, and you must fully load/unload at that location ( you can't deliver in an STAA truck outside of the national network if you're combining less than truckload shipments).

PS that isn't my room or sign -- just the first picture of that sign on google images.

 

Some may claim or even feel it is about safety, but fuel economy is the #1 reason. Nearly every lawmaker wants their constituents to pay less at the pump -- if all three-axle vehicles went 70mph the demand for crude would skyrocket, driving up the price of gasoline. It doesn't hurt that tickets bring in some additional revenue.

Numerous studies have shown no improvement in safety in states with split speed limits (any improvement in stopping distance is offset by increased conflicts due to speed differentials).

This is the sign I've seen. It is about 1/4 mile from the bottom of a 1 mile 4% grade that has a sign advising trucks to go 50mph:



As for mistakes, I've made plenty and will make plenty more. 62 in a 55 is a mistake. 81 is negligent.