HELP! My ticket problem - bad to worse!

Hello Everyone,

Hoping someone can give me some advice on this one. A couple weeks ago I got stopped for "Disobeyed Traffic Control Devise". Here's the deal. This is an intersectin where I have to make a hard (almost a "U" turn) to the left off of a busy 2-lane state highway. There is a cut-through used for traffic coming from the county road onto the HWY. For years we have used this cut-through (with caution) It's somewhat blind due to a building on the corner. A few months ago they put up a "do not enter" sign on this portion. This corner is rural (about 5 miles out of a town of 10,000 or so) and is used primarily by farmers. We have never had a problem here - never an accident! Several of us went to the county to discuss this problem (semi can't safely make the corner if we obey the new sign) We were told that we would just have to deal with it and that "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do" OK, so we kept doing what we've been doing for years - cutting through.

Here it comes! I got stopped - local with big time attitude (big time) He literally yelled at me "Can't you read or what?" I explained the whole deal. It didn't help... he wrote the ticket and kept my license (CDL) as bond. I mentioned I needed the license and I wanted to use my bond card option - NO! He accused me of telling him the laws and asked if I had any other questions. Well, I might accused of being dumb, but I'm not stupid. "No sir" I said, and we parted company.

The next day on my home from work I stopped off for some fuel for my pickup. The pump doesn't have a card reader. When I offered my credit card.... she "needed to see my ID" I told I got a ticket.... no good. "Gotta have a Gov't issued photo ID. I thought for a minute.... the company I work for buys a ton of fuel here. Put it xxxxxxxxxxx company card. (I was sure my boss would understand and just take it out of my pay) Problem solved! Oh! she said "I thought you looked familiar. you're in here all the time in that cool grey Pete" (my kinda girl I thought) anyway..... no problem I'll take your card. Wheww.... here's where it begins.

Can't fly, can't use credit card just anywhere (including post office) Then it gets worse. I take off last week with a load and while in Iowa, got pulled into the scale house for "random paperwork check".... no problem, right? Wrong. He informed me that a traffic ticket is not legal as a license outside of the state I got it in, and further more I'm probably breaking the law by leaving the great state of IL. He said the officer who wrote it should not have taken my license as bond. "Note be done with CDL license, anywhere!" He told me "Get it straightened out when you get home, be carefull, and have a good day."

We plan on fighting the ticket...... but what about all the other? No ID, ticket not accepted, and the whole IA thing?

Anybody got any answers, advise, help?

Thanks!
Boomerang