Careless driving in NJ help

Hiring an attorney was the smartest thing he did. Jim Klepper is pretty well known to truckers for his prepaid legal services and is a regular contributor to many trucking publications as well as a guest on Sirius Radio channel 147.

I doubt Mr. Klepper will be representing your son though. The way it normally works is they will hire an attorney in the area where the tickets were issued or the court that is slated to hear the case. Normally the attorney will attempt to negotiate a plea bargain for a much lesser charge with the DA. Be forewarned though this is not going to be cheap. While the attorneys fee was a flat fee the court will assess additional fees that will be his responsibility to pay. With that many tickets against him it would not surprise me to hear of fines around a thousand bucks after everything is said and done especially in New Jersey.

I hope its less but look at it this way; its only money and as long as he can keep his cdl AND keep his job he will make more of it. It is a learning experience and I am sure he will NOT make this 1 again (at least in the same place anyway). For now they are "charges" not convictions and should not lose his job IF those charges can be negotiated down to less serious ones (albeit more expensive though).

 

I assume he hit a car, since he was charged with failure to report and leaving the scene?

 

Sounds like he was trying to get out of Bordentown (exit 7 on the Turnpike). That place is as messed up as a bucket of worms.