Speeding ticket for 4 mph over?

#### son...Bet that one hurt.

 

EW that one might hurt. Need to behave and not get another within the next 3 years.

 

Already got one last year for 12 over.

 

Yea back when their speed limits were lower you had to watch them. The good thing about them now is that you can drive 75 mph there legally- even on a lot of their backroads you can run 70.

 

You get another one for 15 or better, you will be disqualified for 60 days- take it from someone who knows!LOL

 

Yep, but I see a lot of trucks cruising down those hills at 80-85, easy.

 

Yea specially those Bullracks!LOL My last trip to NM, I even had a UPS pass me and I was running about 74

 

Maybe you should simply honor the speed limit.

Or are you such a Super Trucker that the speed limits simply don't apply to you?!

I know, I know.
Your time is just TOO valuable.

 

You need to check yourself, guy.
I don't speed anymore, I can't. I live and drive in Ohio. Speeding here is a nightmare situation.

I've not earned myself a ticket in almost 3 years now, I follow the rules anymore.
I was simply pointing out that Ohio is very well known to give no quarter to guys not paying mind to the speed limit.


I'm not a super trucker, and do not appreciate the assumption that I am one considering how seriously I take my job, what I've been through over the past 3 years with prof. driving and everything that entails.

Oh, and BTW- all the speeding tickets on my record, atm? Yeah, those are all on my personal vehicle. Not a CMV.

 

Back in the 70’s between Shreveport & the state line I got stopped by a Louisiana Trooper for going 56 in a 55 MPH speed zone. I was surprised for sure, but I tried my best to be very nice & polite to him. he chewed me out over & over about Arkansas trucks coming to his state & speeding. He said I’m tired of it & I am not going to let anyone get away with it. He stated, “I bet you don’t even have enough money to pay this ticket!”


I asked him how much it would cost & he said 72.50, I pulled out my billfold & I had 5 dollars in it. Seems he said, that’s what you Arkansas truckers do, you drive though my stated like a bat out of hell & don’t even have the money to pay the ticket.


4 or 5 times during this conversation he put his pen to his ticket book as if he was going to write me a ticket, but stopped & started chewing on me again.


When he found out I only had 5 dollars he told me he would have to take me to the jail & I would have to call someone to come down & bring cash to get me out of jail.


He nearly wore out my patients with me being kind & polite, but I bit my lip & kept my cool. After about 30 minutes of chewing me out he said, “I’m going to let you go this time but if I ever catch you again running so fast in my state I will put you in jail.”


Texarkana to Shreveport was one of our major runs hauling bulk cement & thankfully he never stopped me again. We ran about 40 to 50 trucks & after this I found out he had stopped several of our trucks, Southern Cement Transport out of Okay, AR, many times & did them the same way with them for only going 1 to 2 MPH over the speed limit. One of our drives was not very nice to him & he had to call in & someone had to drive down with the cash to pay his ticket of going 2 MPH over 55 MPH to get him out of jail!

At times it can be very easy to get a speeding ticket, undeserved, & it seems most times the judge will believe the state trooper & not us, especially if we are out of state.