Who pays fine?

The question was asked to a bunch of drivers, not a lawyer. What else do you need?

 

I didn't see anything wrong with his answers.

I would have faxed in the registration. Ticket may have been dismissed.
I got a ticket in Arizona for no insurance. I was freshly back on the road after being local. That was when i decided to get a laptop and printer,. Office put up a stink because THEY saw it in the book before i left but i never saw it in the book till i got back to the yard. That was my first OTR trip. I faxed the insurance in to the court off my laptop. Ticket dismissed.

 

Yep, gotta love the get a lawyer bit. Geez.

 

Excuse me? He said the ticket was written out to the owner. That means the owner's name is on it. Legally speaking the owner is responsible for the fine. The driver wouldn't have to pay in that situation and it might be illegal for the owner to deduct it from the driver's pay depending on location and situation. He didn't ask the moral ramifications of the tickets, or if he was in the wrong, just if he was responsible for paying, which I answered.

And if you read I did add in a bit where the owner could make a good case for the deduction being legit.

 

And I never said get a lawyer, as in sue. Merely ask a lawyer his opinion. Gotta love when people can't read and understand your posts. Geez.

Edit: Gonna add this little bit here even though it addresses both posts. If you guys want to operate on what's "right" go ahead, you're gonna get eaten alive by lawyers yourselves one day. The name of the game anymore is CYA. Big companies understand this and many drivers don't and this is why you hear so many on here crying about deductions and being fired for vlogging, etc etc. So go ahead and laugh but the OP is simply trying to understand something from a legal perspective and the best bet to do that is NOT to listen to a bunch of truck counter lawyers on a trucking forum but ask a real professional lawyer. If that doesn't make sense to you then, well, guess we'll just grab some popcorn and wait for your WAHHHH I GOT FIRED post.

 

Averitt tried to do that to me over a repowered load I had scaled and it shifted. Virginia DOT wrote the ticket to them.

Shortly after I tore my shoulder muscle on the landing gear and they tried to garnish my wages by me signing a form since I was on workers comp. I pretty much just laughed. Well a month later I get a call they cleaned out my truck since I was out x number of days. I brought help to get it and they wouldn't tell me where my couple thousand dollars of equipment was. Again if you signe the form to garnish wages we will be glad to release it. They denied they were unwilling to let me get my stuff. I came back the next day with an officer and got my stuff. They basically turned my truck upside down and emptied it onto to 3 pallets.

That was it for me. After my shoulder healed I ummm quit. They never got a dime.

 

That cop obviously is a rookie,had you done a routine pretrip you would have noticed that stuff.Your company has a lot of stuff to keep track of.You as a driver needs to make sure all permits are up to date including registration and you have all the needed paperwork .All that is part of a pre trip.Same with triangles.

 

I read and understood your post just fine, contacting a lawyer like you stated can mean quite a few different things. We're such a litigious society that the first words out of peoples mouths now are about getting a lawyer, it's crap.