72 in a 60 Speeding Ticket AND Level 3 Inspection?

I had an suv tonight near Tucson driving nearly 80mph weaving in and out of traffic and all of a sudden Arizona dps came flying around me after them with lights on trying to get that clown stopped..folks just don’t care.

 

When I lived in Louisiana there was this town along the gulf called Golden Meadows that pulled over my brother for doing two miles over per hour. He was not the only one. That town was famous for their speed trap. Always drive one mph under the speed limit was the rule for that place.

 

My bad, I thought this was the "Legal Advice" forum thread. Not the "Berate and Scorn someone who does what 48% of the entire U.S. Population does" forum thread. I'll just reach out to CDL Legal and pay to have it dismissed or reduced.

 

Well.....we are truck drivers, and none of us are experts at law. The best you can do is go to court and try to get it reduced. No guarantees there, but speeding is a moving violation and you don't want those points if you can help it.

 

The reason your getting #### on is the fact you came in and tried to make excuses then pass the buck. "Oh other people were breaking the law but I got caught and its not fair and the po po are bullies pick on poor poor me" it makes you come off like a whiney entitled brat. And you got treated like it.

 

This is how it was put to me by an AZ DPS officer I served in the military with, in order to avoid a ticket and still make time. "Generally a cop doesn't much care if you're within 5 over. Past 5 over you are in his "zone of discretion". So if you're doing 3 over you are not blatantly challenging his discretion." I've personally passed troopers at 3 over posted and I wasn't ticketed.

Luck, skill, disinterested LEO??? No real idea. This info and a buck might get you a soda at the quickie mart, which is all that info is worth.

 

so you want everybody to turn around and 100% agree with what you’re saying and what you did… Try some personal responsibility and accountability instead of blaming other people for your actions… The fact of the matter is you were speeding and got caught

 

I think he meant he passed the inspection. As in the Officer LOOKING for a violation could not find even a grey area to write up. But wanted him to fail the level 3 so put speed as reason. Not cracked frame, bald tires, brake issues. I won’t claim I never went over speed limits in hills. *not mountains* I may let truck run last part going down, keep, add to speed just before I go up next one. Rather then cresting next hill at under 50. I am still high 50s on 60 mph road.
But I make sure I am under 35 in small towns where limit sign 3/4 mile beyond first house. POV I might be 45 crossing the sign. Law is 30 or below. Yes traffic builds up as I am not hitting brakes. Mostly Jake.

 

Well, technically speeding is a violation, so yes, he did fail it… I think many of us in this industry are sick and tired of people coming into this business breaking the rules and then making an excuses and crying and whining about it…

 

I know things have changed with the cvsa deal but in the past speeding or another moving violation had nothing to do with an equipment inspection violation, and certainly would not make a fail. They were two different things. The speeding would be a separate ticket from the inspection report pass or fail. They could and would use the traffic stop for speeding as a reason to do an inspection while they were at it but that did not make you fail inspection. Maybe it is different now. If it is that way now that is bs. Because your equipment can be in top notch shape and how fast you drive it has nothing to do with that part of it. That is human error not mechanical error.