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Fired for speeding

Discussion in 'Trucking Jobs' started by Hangeas, Dec 6, 2009.

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  1. Dec 6, 2009 #1
    Hangeas

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    I got fired for getting 3 speeding tickets in one week. I do a local route and a town on my route installed speed cameras and I got nailed three times and I didn't even know until my dispatcher called and fired me. These won't go on my mvr but the company put them on my dac. I know they are on my DAC because I almost got hired by another company until they read my DAC report asking me about the tickets. Do I have any chance of getting hired again or is it time to switch careers. I have been truck driver for 15 years with a clean mvr.
     
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  3. Dec 6, 2009 #2
    jtrnr1951

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    I'd hire you, but I have no jobs right now !! But I doubt if many others would !! Have you checked into changing your ID ? Best of Luck !!!!!!
     
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  4. Dec 6, 2009 #3
    dancnoone

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    My responce would be an immediate rebuttal to DAC....saying PROVE IT.

    Unless they have the photos showing you atually driving the thing....they have diddly squat.

    This wasn't a personal vehicle, which can be directly tied to you at all times. This was a company vehicle, which could/can be used by anyone at anytime.
     
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  5. Dec 7, 2009 #4
    Data_man

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    This could be a good lesson for the trucking heroes in the world. Its your driving record and you lose if you fail to keep it clean. danc694u, if he takes it to court the first thing the court will look at will be his log book and the load manifest for the trip. Look at all of the extra money you made by speeding, you can live off of that for the next few years until you record is clean again. And a lot of you laugh at or get upset with the Professional Driver going slow and doing everything by the book.
     
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  7. Dec 7, 2009 #5
    Allow Me.

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    3 speeding tickets in 1 week ? As a safety guy(if I was one), I would think you got popped 3 times this week, but how many times did you speed last week and not get popped? And the week before that? Make sense?
     
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  8. Dec 7, 2009 #6
    25(2)+2

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    I have a question, how much over the speed limit in that town were you going? I do lots of towns on my runs and I don't speed through towns.
     
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  9. Dec 7, 2009 #7
    Big Don

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    This does not sound right. How can you get three tickets, tickets that go on your DAC, but not on your MVR? Did your company show you any documentation to back this claim up? Or did they just can you?

    I guess, on second thought, I can see how this could happen, where they would notify the company that such and such truck was in this location, and this time, and was speeding. Then the company checks to see who is driving that truck.

    But it still seems sort of unlikely. You have 15 years experience, and a clean MVR, then had three tickets in one week. I just have to question the validity of all of this.

    And I am NOT questioning what you are saying. I'm questioning the validity of these supposed tickets. I hope you can look into this a bit further.
     
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  10. Dec 7, 2009 #8
    wsyrob

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    The modern cameras take a picture of the driver. Get a lawyers advice and slow down. Its a speed limit. Not the slowest you should go.
     
    wsyrob, Dec 7, 2009
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  11. Dec 7, 2009 #9
    soon2betrucking

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    i thought with those speed camera that in order to got a ticket you have to be going at least 10mph over the posted speed limit....?
     
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  12. Dec 7, 2009 #10
    wsyrob

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    That's not hard to do. Try running 45 mph in the construction zones on 294 around Chicago outside of rush hour when there isn't as much traffic. You will about get run over.
     
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