Traffic Violation Report - All Good if nothing shows?

Not to beat up on you, but you had no problem going 20 over, were cited for it, why not put on your big boy pants and go take care of your obligations? If you did not agree with the Officer, you had 2 choices, refuse to sign and be taken before the next available Magistrate, or sign a promise you would appear and let the Judge sort it out.

 

Like I said earlier, right now he's just got a regular car license, NOT a CDL. The state he got his ticket in may not have reported whatever actions they may have taken against him to his home state.

That changes the second he applies for a CDL and his DL# is run through the CDLIS. Then, the state he's got problems in throws up the red flags, bringing his speeding ticket and subsequent failure to appear, along with the resulting suspension of driving privileges, to the attention of his home state.

When that happens, you are denied the CDL, and they might just yank your car license until you get things straightened out.

As of now, you're driving on borrowed time because that other state could at ANY time report what happened to your home state. When that happens (and you may not even be aware of it) when it does), your license is invalid and if you are stopped, you're driving while suspended.

20+ over is a big deal, and many companies won't touch you with something like that on your record. Of the companies that will, many will reject you due to the suspension.

If OP wants to drive a truck, FIRST get this cleared up. Then, keep your nose clean for another 3-5 years. THEN attempt to get your CDL. Fact of the matter is that the OP isn't going to be a truck driver any time soon.

 

Picture yourself in a year driving down the road, a red light at a scale, a fender bender, a commercial inspection stop, or a number of other things. They check and find you do have a warrant, truck gets towed, you get a night or weekend in the grey bar hotel, and probably terminated.
The other thing that could happen is, you are sitting in orientation, they are doing a background, and find out you have a warrant for not appearing. Now you get to pay your way home, loose out on a job opportunity.
Why not just go take care of it now? Who knows, maybe you got lucky and the citation was never turned in, or was lost.

 

20 over is considered reckless driving to trucking companies and their insurance companies. Get it taken care of so it doesn't come back to haunt you.

 

Basically that's what he's been told by lots of folks here. Whether he follows through with it, who knows.
I just hope he does, and then comes back to let us know.

 

It's not so far fetched. Fairly often stuff gets lost in the system or people just fail to enter stuff into the system. We are talking about the government, after all (maybe it was in one of the "lost" emails).

I'd just call the court and ask them, it could be possible that there is no record of it.

 

When you get stopped by a cop said cop will inform you how to take care of the ticket. Right on the ticket itself will be a court date plus information as to appearing or mailing in the fine. If you get cited for a more serious violation like DUI or reckless driving your going to stand before the Judge. If The OP had a violation on such a serious nature that state law mandated he stand before a judge I am in serious doubt the OP left the state without posting bail. ONLY a serious offense requires a physical appearance in court. You don't just give the court a call asking if you can pay the fine by mail in these cases. Having a CDL or not makes no difference. If you are charged with one of the serious offenses requiring you to physically appear before a judge ANYWHERE in the US and you blow it off a bench warrant will be issued for you AND at some point your home state will be notified to suspend your DL. This happens 100s of times every day in this country. The OP is not being forthcoming with all the information and knows it. If it were 7 or more years I might be inclined to maybe believe more about this, but not 3 years. The key to all of this is the OPs statement that the court demanded a physical appearance. Courts across the country do not do this for just simple infractions.

 

Cant say his story is to far fetched. around 2001 i was in a wreck in nashville. I never got a ticket for the wreck but did get a full priced bill for the already down guard rail. Well i used the house on the corners phone just to find out i was the 9th person to hit that guard rail that week. I told the state i'm not paying for the guard rail but would pay part of it since i'm sure they got full price out of afew of the other drivers.

Well about 5 years ago i went to go get my cdl but was denied because my drivers license was suspended in TN and they issued a warrent for my arrest. Now i live in VA and had been pulled over afew times and nothing pulls up about the warrent. Went round and round with the courts and dmv and the state just to end up having to pay TN license reinstatement fee.