Ticket by a state officer question..

Maybe im wrong but How do we know the info your putting out there is correct? I was always told that no inspection equals no csa points.

 

Every moving violation goes into a national database, which is also shared with your home state and failure to pay a ticket gets reported to your home state. As a result your licence will get suspended for failing to pay it. Thus driving on a suspended licence is another violation and requires you to prove to the DMV that you paid the ticket before getting your licence reinstated. You have the burden to pay the ticket, late fees and the reinstatement fees, $$$ out of pocket.

This will show up on your driving record which is used to determine eligibility when applications are being processed for a CMV job.

So getting a couple of points on your CSA and PSP is the least of your worries.....Companies don't like having their employees driving under suspension and this gets a lot of drivers in hot water, or as one said terminated if left hanging and not paid or challenged in the court of the county which the citation was issued.

Being an Interstate driver makes it hard to go to court and challenge the violation. So the easy thing to do is to either pay the fine or hire a lawyer to fight it at the cost of several hundred dollars for an out of state violation.

Either you pay the court or the lawyer..pick one!

As for points. The CSA triples the points on the first year, then double on the second years and then drops after the third year....Generally a moving violation triggers a Road Side Inspection only by a State Law Enforcement Officer. Local Police don't do FMCSA DOT Inspections.

Solution, keep your record clean and your money in your wallet by knowing the rules and staying compliant.

 

Maybe someone else is better informed, but to me I believe only moving violations are collected by CSA outside an inspection. I wouldn't sweat this, but if your not comfortable contact a lawyer, and I'll be very interested to hear what you find out.

 

Im thinking snowflake is a bit confused about the regs.

 

I don't think he asked about CSA reporting specifically.
The way I took it was if it would show up on DOT records.

 

Local Police don't do FMCSA DOT Inspections.

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There are lots of local and county departments that have their own anti-truck divisions, CVSA certified and all that happy horse poop. I personally believe it should be a state thing, but as you can see, I'm not in charge