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Years ago a friend subscribed to one of those lawyer club like you are talking about. He stopped paying bc they did not do what they advertised and was just wasting the monthly fee.

Sorry to hear about this, sounds like the cop was just fishing, unfortunately you got hooked.

Good luck in whatever you decide.

 

I received a ticket from a state patrol officer that was $500 and major points here in Ga.. I showed up in court with no lawyer and the prosecutor reduced the ticket to driving to fast for conditions and a fine of $250. Just by showing up they offered me this deal and I took it. I suggest you also appear in court and disagree with the ticket.

 

here you admit you were wrong so why fight something you know your guilty of? Kinda defeats the purpose. And the fine will be cheaper to pay then hiring an attorney.

 

It's not about a fine or money it's about keeping your record/CDL clean. So getting a lawyer to possibly get the tickets tossed out or pleaded down to something else is the purpose.

 

I think your looking down the gun barrel at more like $1500 to start for a real attorney, and he's going to charge you for the travel time as well.

The tactic he will employ is stalling and delaying. It will get drawn out for six months or more, maybe even go all the way to trial if you like, of course that's going to be four? five thousand dollars later???

Pay the extortion money and move on.

Lessons learned. The biggest one is Illinois sucks.

The only log book ticket I ever got was at The Butte Montana coup. It's at the top of the off ramp to the Flying J I wanted to go to, because I didn't want to stay at the Love's some miles back. and he got me for the fifth day back.

This was 9 years ago. I have a system, and broke it, cause I wanted the J buffet ( It was independent back then ).

So after the neck bone placed me out of service for 10 hours, think it was like $170 too, I walked down, and got my buffet.

Oh, and your so going to hell now dude.

 

Pleading not guilty to something the whole world knew he did worked for OJ.
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I'm not sure what the correct answer is, I have 2 log violations on my elogs right now because if a couple of slow shippers .

 

I'd pay the fine and forget about it. Two log violations shouldn't hurt anything. And if any potential employers make an issue of it, they just might not be worth working for anyway

 

It sounds like you may have just been a victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time doing wrong thing. It happens to everybody at least once. It happened to me when I was 21 and ill never forget how hilarious Murphy's law and dumb luck can be sometimes, (and then how that dirt bag loser cop got up on the stand a lied to the judge about what happened...no kidding) so a little paranoia is not a bad idea out there. Even if they'd pulled you over accidentally thinking you were somebody else or if it was total BS, if they then find something on you you're cooked.

That being said I think you might be overblowing this one a little. The speeding ticket would have been much worse on your record honestly, because that WOULD put points on your license. The logbook violation I don't think will hurt your license. It's just a BS revenue ticket I'm pretty sure. It will go against you and the company's CSA score but 20 minutes is not going to cost you your job or anything. This is why E-logs suck. You mess up one time on a trip plan or get stopped at a major wreck or slowed down in a snow storm and suddenly you're a criminal for getting your job done. Gimme a break.

 

That warning goes on your psp report not good.