California ticket advice please

Technicallly, it is a Emergency Stop because by DOT HOS Rules you were required to take a 30 min. Break and you are a Motorist, you don't need a Lawyer, just fight it yourself. I'm sure a Judge will throw it out.

 

Contact OOIDA , maybe they can recommend a law/legal service to help.

Had one of those jerks in CA give me a ticket for not being in the right hand lane when I moved over to let traffic merge. Told him I didn't see the sign & he said in this area there aren't any signs I should have seen the sign at the Nevada/California state line. Believe it or not, he said the state doesn't have enough money to put up more signs.

 

Unfortunately, you're going to have to Post Bond either way, whether you show up personally or do a Trial by Declaration, regardless it's still less expensive than hiring a Attorney.

Me personally, I would show up in person. Law Enforcement loves to give tickets to Out of State Drivers and Truck Drivers because they know most are just passing through and will just pay the fine.

 

if you don't fight it and pay it, you will get hit with CSA points and on the company....The Joshua Tree thing is because you were in unincorporated San Bernadino County out there. Needles only has jurisdiction inside city limits. Don't expect much sympathy....It was open for us as a convenience but it was disgusting with the trash. They cleaned and paved it and put warnings up that it would be closed if we trashed it again. We didn't listen. ....they let us use the ramps and almost anywhere out of direct view of the travel lanes....just giving you the background that the local person has lived with. There are several places they did this. It's really a shame because they spent lots of $$$ making those pullouts for us and we trashed them.

 

That is not an emergency stop. They would say that you should have planned ahead instead of waiting till the last minute. Kind of a scumbag move to be honest, seeing as they wanted the stupid 30 minute break. But that's what you're up against.

 

I guess most miss the fact that the driver could have stopped anywhere previous and quite earlier than waiting till the last minute.

 

That's what I do. Between hours 5 & 6. Waiting till the last minute causes stress and situations like this. Do your 30 minute break between hours 5 and 6. You will be ok every time.