Ticket advice

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by RogerThat72, Jun 19, 2014.

  1. Roadmedic

    Roadmedic Road Train Member

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    Depends on the company.

    I have not had a speeding ticket since 1974 so I have no clue how they look at it.
     
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  3. Wooly Rhino

    Wooly Rhino Road Train Member

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    First, if we are still talking about the warning and the ticket on as being on the same ticket number, if one was dismissed the other one was dismissed also. The cop did you a favor by doing it that way. I got a ticket for going five miles over in a construction zone and a warning for going 75 in a 55. The police officer put the warning ticket as the header and the construction zone ticket under it. Therefore it went into the book as both being warnings. No CSA points as a warning in a automobile do not show up.

    So take my word for it. You have nothing to worry about. In fact you can view this informative video.

     
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  4. saddleup

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    no what he is saying is he got a ticket for being in the wrong lane, then he got a inspection report with the warning.
     
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    they didnt fire him, but would they have hired him, two different things.
     
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  6. RogerThat72

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    Sort of. The speeding was on the citation as a warning. The lane violation was the actual violation in the ticket. And both were violations on the inspection.
     
  7. gpsman

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    24. Why did I receive points for a warning ticket? Answer


    When enforcement discovers a driver breaking the law, the officer has several ways to impact the driver and the carrier he/she is representing. It is important to understand each of these ways, how each way impacts the carrier and driver, and how to remove each from your record. Enforcement can issue a citation or warning to a driver for breaking a State law. Citations can be defended in State court. Cases that are lost, or where the plaintiff pleads guilty, are called convictions. Convictions will impact the driver and could show up on the driver’s Commercial Driver’s License and Moving Violation Record.

    In addition, enforcement can give a violation on a roadside inspection report. These violations will appear in a driver’s Pre-Employment Screening Program record and could show up in the carrier’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) data. To know which violations are used in SMS, see Table A of the SMS Methodology located here: https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/Documents/SMSMethodology.pdf . Carriers and drivers can try to remove incorrect roadside inspection data from their record using DataQs (https://dataqs.fmcsa.dot.gov/ ). It is possible that a driver can receive a warning or citation with a roadside violation for the same incident. If the carrier or driver wants to protest both of them, they need to do each independently through the aforementioned process. The outcome of one doesn’t necessarily impact the other because each is in a different jurisdiction. Citations are adjudicated in State court, while DataQs is a Federal program.
    https://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/FAQs.aspx
     
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  8. RogerThat72

    RogerThat72 Road Train Member

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    So with that being said. My company is basically doing all they can do. And the warning is going to stay. Best option for me is to keep my nose clean take this as a learning experience and move on. Then stay with this company for a year and prove that I have kept my nose clean and then go onto a local hazmat tanker.
     
  9. Roadmedic

    Roadmedic Road Train Member

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    It takes a period of 3 years to get the points back to zero.
     
  10. RogerThat72

    RogerThat72 Road Train Member

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    Yes, yes I know so I'll have 20 points after this year is done. Thinking about that it's not to bad. Very rare that a driver has a sparkly clean report. It is my first year and I just eclipsed 9 months. Although if a guy puts in with more time, and no violations. I'll know why I didn't get the job.

    With tj all that being said, I think the system is flawed and it's deffiantly not for the drivers.
     
  11. Roadmedic

    Roadmedic Road Train Member

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    When they started this program, I got points awarded to me for an event in 2008 when the tire had a screw in it and they noted it on the inspection. It still had air in it, but was low.

    I had no points till I miss wrote on the log the number of days off in 2013. So, it can happen.
     
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