Failure to Stop at a Port of Entry

Pay the $430 and move on. Lesson learned hopefully...

 

I'll never scramble to get in a congested scale. I'm not cutting off a bunch of 4 wheelers and trucks just to appease the dot. I just blow them. Safety first.

I'm not saying I blow every scale but if it's a pain in the ### to get to it you better believe I'm not going through that trouble. I got miles to run here.

 

Call around, should be able to find a cheaper attorney... A simple 1 time court appearance should be all that is needed in this case... I wold have them work a deal with the prosecutors to have the misdemeanor charge tossed, you pay the fine and nothing goes on your record.... Should be simple... All the court wants is your money anyhow...

 

HalpinUout...that's some solid advice. Do you think it's worth it to have a word with the prosecutor first and see how things play out before hiring an attorney or it might back fire if he's not receptive?

Clerk extended date to end of September I have time to work things out.

 

I think that would be a good idea, obviously like asap not a day or two before court. I would just bite the bullet call the state prosecutor tell them you would like to work a deal out ( if it was me I would tell them I would pay the fine provided that the misdemeanor charge gets tossed and nothing is on your record ) I can't see them not agreeing to that... You blew past a weight station, it's not the end of the world... If they agree to you paying and the charges get dropped they will probably want to also put you on a "90 day" supervision and all that is you can't have any negative interactions with Police within the time frame.... Now if you call and get some rude and ignorant prosecutor who won't work with you, then you'll have to call and get yourself a attorney....

 

A little story. I was in Houston a couple of years ago, and ran my 70 out. I shut down for a couple of days to reset my hours. To pass the time, I rented a car and acted as a tourist for two days. Early one morning, I was pulling out of my hotel in my rental car, and was slow to put my seatbelt on. Within a minute of pulling out of the hotel, I was pulled over for no seatbelt. Sure enough, I was given a seatbelt ticket. Prior to this, I had nothing on my driving record.

It would've been easy to just pay the $100 ticket, or whatever it was and be done with it. Instead, I hired a cheap lawyer, asked my company for a load to Houston when my court date came, and fought the ticket in court. This momentary lapse in judgement, and fighting the ticket cost me a day off ($250), ($300) for my lawyer, and ($100) for a hotel, ($50) for a rental car, but also kept my driving record clean.

The worst thing you could do is to just pay the ticket. I'd try a letter. If that doesn't work, hire a cheap local attorney. Show up for court. They assume that because you're from out of town that you'll just pay up.

In my situation, all it took was me showing up to court to have the ticket thrown out. I was told that the officer wouldn't be there on that trial date to testify that I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, and the prosecutor would be forced to dismiss the ticket as if it never happened. An officers time on the road, or time off for that matter, is more important than testifying against you for a small ticket, like blowing by a scale house.

I had been driving for about 4 years when this happened. I'm around six years now. Knock on wood, outside of a minor accident my first six months (No ticket), I've remained accident/ticket free. A few hundred dollars is worth keeping your record clean.

 

I went in the Oregon port of entry and weighed but didnt go in to show paper work. Wasn't told to. No cops chased me but was that wrong? Should I have went in? And is there a ticket for that?

 

I havent been in the west for several years and I've had a concussion my messed up my memory so that is why I have forgotten the details

 

You were safe until you posted about it. Now they're going to track you down via your IP address and make an example of you.