Got a cell phone citation and level 3 inspection.

Then you need a lawyer. Like matt says, find someone from the city where the court is located, who UNDERSTANDS CDL TICKET DEFENSE!

Alternatively, the lawyer networks like Road Law or ITL refer your case to local lawyers, but it's more luck of the draw. I'd google search a local CDL lawyer first.

 

I used Interstate Trucker a couple years ago, it cost $400. That would have included going to jury trial if we decided to do that.

 

Depends on if the company gets a nice little fine too for you being on the phone I've heard of places getting hefty fines for the driver being on the phone

 

Mobile Phone Restrictions Fact Sheet

The fine and implications to the carrier itself is pretty hard to implement since it must be shown (proven) the carrier itself actually demands the driver use the phone in the course of their work to communicate with the carrier, while driving. That said, many carriers use this misunderstood and misapplied clause as justification to put driver-facing cameras in trucks

 

Yea the incident I'm thinking of was in Minnesota and I wanna say they fined just the driver 1200 bucks and the like 10000

 

Your post for some reason jogged my memory about a story that really belongs in the stupid act seen thread. I was being inspected at the Maryland coop on the DC beltway watching another officer standing watching the trucks go by. One idiot was talking on his cell phone it was so clear I could see it. The officer ran over and had him pull in with me. It was tight for a few minutes until my inspection was over and I was waved off. Just a moronic act.

 

I can beat that moose.
Was in the scale house
For a permit check and one of the scale guys says "holy crap.. anyone else seeing this crap ?"..look out the window and a driver was smoking one of those left handed Marlboros while he was going over the scales ffs...scaley told him to come around and have a lil chat then called state patrol

 

As you pull a station, even a few miles before, cameras are watching you.