Need Advice regarding tickets, CSA & opportunities

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  1. Jan 13, 2015 #1
    yahshuah

    yahshuah Bobtail Member

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    Here's my situation. I'm a new driver that drove for a Mega for 4 months until I was terminated for tickets I received on a single stop. Here's the situation. I was sent to recover an old nasty truck that a previous driver drove in Providence R.I and was to deliver it to a Georgia terminal. I was dispatched a couple of runs on the way down. In this truck the E-log didn't work so I began to do the paper log. Making a long story short, I frustrated myself being in this truck for 4 days and the day before taking the truck to a terminal, I did my break @ a Pilot off 285 in Atlanta. When I left the Pilot I took I-75 to head to the terminal which was about 2 hours away. I was pulled over by a sheriff who ticketed me for speeding and for driving inside the Perimeter as I found out that trucks may not drive inside of the Atlanta Perimeter unless they have a stop inside the Perimeter. Also, my log was not updated that morning and though he didn't ticket me, it was added to my FSA score.
    My questions are, what good advice do I need to address these in traffic court and what companies will hire me after having this infraction. I have one other speeding ticket (5 mph over the limit).
     
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  3. Jan 13, 2015 #2
    G.Anthony

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    The speeding tickets alone are your problem. I cannot say what the ticket for driving inside of Atlanta will cost you in the way of no one hiring you, but I'd laugh that one off, if only not to be too concerned about it. Of course you'd have to pay for it (the Atlanta city driving ticket).
     
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  4. Jan 13, 2015 #3
    yahshuah

    yahshuah Bobtail Member

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    Thanks a lot. I'm stressed big time about this and trying desparately to get with a company thinking that it'll be kinda hard.
     
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  5. Jan 13, 2015 #4
    Vilhiem

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    Well I can't help with the legal aspect here but in the future there's two things you need to keep in mind.

    Read all your signs, I live in that area and travel those roads almost daily. There are signs everywhere which say all trucks 6 wheels plus must use 285 unless they have a delivery.

    The other thing is, and this is personal experience, if the interstate number is 3 digits and the first digit is even, there's a good chance that's the road you need. 3 digits starting with an even number is a bypass, and unless you've got business down another area most everywhere wants us to use the bypass.

    Best of luck to you!
     
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  7. Jan 13, 2015 #5
    crzyjarmans

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    Sorry to say, but your going to have a tough road ahead, in the eyes of the law, the "I didn't know" is not a valid excuse, the speeding tickets will be your biggest fight, one thing you should never do is "just pay the fine", a good attorney can help get these down to a lesser charge, better to pay an attorney that smudge your CDL, good luck
     
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  8. Jan 13, 2015 #6
    kemosabi49

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    My advice is to always, and I mean always, fight any moving violations. Get one of the truck attorneys if you want but fight it. May be able to get it reduced to a non-moving violation. The inside the perimiter you probably would have gotten away with if you hadn't been speeding. Your company should have covered that in your orientation if that is a place you run through a lot. Live and learn. As far as the log book thing, not much you can do about it. I wouldn't be to concerned too much with the one speeding ticket, especially if it was in the 6 to 10 mph over catagory. I would tell prospective employers about it, but say I didn't speed and was goning to fight it. Pretty C.S. of the company to fire you before you had a conviction on the ticket.
     
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  9. Jan 13, 2015 #7
    yahshuah

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    the thing with 285 is that I was already on 285 and while the signs are on 20, 75, 85, they're not on 285 as you would turn into the Perimeter. Also I was headed to a destination inside the Perimeter but it wasn't a dispatched stop so I was unsure on that.
     
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  10. Jan 13, 2015 #8
    Vilhiem

    Vilhiem Road Train Member

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    Well I don't think there's any truck stops inside Atlanta. Just on 285 really.

    If you had business there, you were within your legal rights to be there. I don't know what your business was for being there, but if you were supposed to be there then you should fight it.
     
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  11. Jan 13, 2015 #9
    yahshuah

    yahshuah Bobtail Member

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    ...and see that's what I'm saying....I was already on 285 but when you exit to 75 or 85 to go toward the city there are no restriction signs
     
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  12. Jan 13, 2015 #10
    pattyj

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    The sheriff had a hay day with you that day.You already have 1 ticket for speeding now this,how fast did he clock you for?All hope may not be lost landing another driving job but be prepared for it to take awhile.So how did you end up getting to the terminal?
     
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