Busted exceeding hours of service

I've got 2 different log violations. oos. Both were 30 points. The non oos I'd have to check but I think it was good for 30 also.

But here's a question. some of you say 70 and some of you say 100. Before you have company problems. In which score would that be? Because while it's 12,24,36 months for the driver. It's 6,12,24 months for the company. So the only time the points match are the first 6 months.

 

Boss gave you bad advice, your going to. miss a days wages anyway why not just hire legal council to show up on your behalf and get this reduced or dismissed?They will likely agree to something prior to court its not like you see on TV where they are in the courtroom battling it out.I have had several traffic violations reduced to to just paying some money. I have never paid over a few hundred for a traffic lawyer . i never argue with a cop and stay nice and polite but you can bet that ANY ticket I get will be handed over to an Attorney. My license is how I feed my family.

 

That's like the drivers that ask for directions for an hour on the CB and nobody answers then there is that one brave soul who finally decides to help a fellow driver out and then you get a million other drivers telling him what crappy directions he gave and they proceed to give they're crappy directions and before you know it it's a knock down dragout how wrong each other are and the original driver is not to be heard from again. LOL

 

He just got log book violations. And sounds like the fines are cheap. He can't fight his csa and his license isn't affected so just pay the fines and chalk it up as lesson learned.

 

They don't have to write a second ticket for the same offense to pop you twice. If the cop can and does conduct a D.O.T. inspection, whatever violations he writes on the inspection form are assessed as PSP points under the CSA program. Then he still gives you a ticket for the speeding. Its wrong in most people's opinion. And in mine. But the govt says its legal because they consider the CSA program to be "non-punitive".

 

How does one check his PSP points?

 

Go to the FMCSA website and pay the $10 to get your instant PSP report.

 

One doesn't

 

Doesn't a warning also go against your CSA score even though you can't fight it?

 

Well, Kevin, live and learn, I guess. I believe that CDL holders have given tacit consent to random searches, it's part of the agreement? I know LEO's need reasonable cause for civilian drivers, but with CMV's they're allowed random stops. Happens all the time.

I don't know any drivers who haven't exceed one of their clocks, 8hr clock, 14hr clock, 11hr clock, whatever. It's the hard luck of getting caught that's happened to you. If you ran over another 100 times you might never have another hassle. Sorry Kevin. Just move on, put it behind you, I guess.