I know I'm an idiot but I have a DUI/DWAI question

12 hours on the railroad. Has been for years.

 

You're still going to get your cdl aren't you?

 

Don't give up looking and ask around. There are some companies that will hire you it's just they are the bottom feeders. But any way you look at it it's experience. Just keep it clean for a year and you'll be able to just about go where you want.

 

WHAT!!!???

So you blow clean under, But an Officer can still place you under arrest if they "Feel" you are impaired?

Good Lord whats happened to society

So an officers "opinion" dictates your future....

Am I seeing/reading this correctly?

 

Yes.

Unfortunately.

I'll leave it at that. Consider any Officer a threat to your freedom if you had any drink at all in the last 30 hours.

 

Yup cops are ######## in TN... 2017 the girl I was dating at the time and I jumped in my avalnche and were gonna go dance at the bar well i had her stop bc I had ran outta beer id been drinking since 9am that morning this was roughly 4:00-4:30 pm that evening.. Well bc my stupid ### wanted more beer instead of paying attention we ran outta gas... She was furious lol so she gets mad and slings the keys at me and takes off walking well my trucks sitting at a redlight with nearly 5 cars behind me car behind me sees me jump over in the driver seat to try and get it to start up long enough to get putta the way... It wouldnt start so the folks behind me got pissed and called the law on me finally a guy in a jeep drives up beside me and pulls me into the public parking lot... So I'm panicking like #### she called the cops I'm drunk and only one here with my truck... So I hurry up take the keys out and sling em back over in the passenger side floor board... At this point I'm not in the vehicle period... I get behind my truck bc I was fixing to walk home and guess what happens next?? Yup EXACTLY 3 car loads of cops rolled up I'm standing at the tailgate thinking she screwed me now what a #####.... Well officer says we have eye witness saying they seen you drinking and driving and i told him I was not driving and told him exactly what I'm telling y'all... He looks at me and says dont try to ######## me and I was being honest I truly was.. Well need less to say it didn't work out in my favor at all... I was the placed under arrest for DUI.. SEARCHED ME AND THE OTHER COP WAS LOOKING IN THE TRUCK FOR MY KEYS AND SAYS WHERES THE KEYS? I SAID IDK WHERE THEIR AT.. ANYHOW HE FINALLY FOUND THEM ON THE PASSENGER SIDE... SO I WAS LIKE WAIT HOLD UP HOW YALL CHARGING ME WITH DUI WHEN YOU NEVER SAW ME BEHIND THE WHEEL AND THE KEYS WERE NOT ON ME NOR IN THE IGNITION.. HE SAID DONT MATTER EYE WHITNESS SAID YOU WERE AND YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE HERE WITH YOUR VEHICLE AND THE KEYS IN THE PASSENGER FLOOR THAT PLENTY OF EVIDENCE TO PLACE YOU IN JAIL TONIGHT... WELL HE SAID DO U MIND GOING AND GIVING BLOOD FOR A BAC TEST I SAID NO BC IN MY MIND THEY DONT HAVE #### ON ME THERES ABSOLOUTLY NO PROOF THAT I WAS WITH OUT REASONABLE DOUBT BEHIND THAT STEERING WHEEL DRUNK.... SO I FIGURED I HAD IT BEAT SO I WAS LIKE LETS GO... WELL TURNS OUT THE CHICK I WAS DATING TOOK BACK OFF HOME TO MICHIGAN WHERE SHES FROM WHILE I WAS IN JAIL... BC I FIGURED ILL GET OUT SHE WILL BE HOME AND TESTIFY ON MY BEHALF THAT SHE WAS IN FACT DRIVING THE VEHICLE NOT ME... WELL MONTHS GO BY COURT APPEARANCE HAPPENS NO COP NO WITNESS. 5 DIFFERENT COURT DATES WERE SET BC THEY KEPT CONTINUING IT WELL FINALLY THE 5TH DATE I GO IN THERE AND THEY DISSMISSED THE CASE BC THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE WHAT SO EVER.. MAN I WAS SO FREAKING HAPPY UNTILL 5 MONTHS LATER WHEN LAW COMES KNOCKING ON MY DOOR I SAID YES SIR HE SAID I HAVE A SUMMONS HERE FOR YOU TO APPEAR IN COURT ON SUCH AND SUCH DATE... I SAID FOR WHAT??? HE SAID SAYS HERE DUI LEVEL 2 AND VIOLATIONS OF OPEN CONTAINER LAW AND ALSO A PUBLIC INTOXICATION CHARGE I WAS LIKE WHOA WHOA WHOA THE DUI WAS DISSMISED 5 MONTHS AGO AND HOW CAN THEY ADD CHARGES ON TO MY RECORD AFTER THE FACT?? SO I WAS LIKE WHATEVER WELL COURT COMES AROUND JUDGE SAY MR. DEESE I WILL NOT APPOINT YOU AN ATTORNEY! YOU WILL HAVE TO HIRE YOUR OWN i WAS LIKE WTF? BUT OK.. SO I HAD A HARD TIME PAYING FOR ONE SO NEXT COURT APPERENCE I STILL HAD NO LAWYER HE ASK ME WHY I TOLD Him. HE SAID HOW LONG YOU THINK IT WILL TAKE U TO HIRE ONE I SAID HONESTY SIR I REALLY DONT KNOW AT THE MOMENT... HE SAID WELL U BETTER TELL ME SOMTHING OR IMMA REVOKE YOUR BOND AND STICK YOUR ### IN JAIL!!!!! I WAS LIKE ARE U FR RN?? SO HE GAVE ANOTHER 2 MONTHS WELL I FINALLY HIRED ONE. WELL LITTLE DID I KNOW HIM AND THE DA I DREW ON MY CASE WAS BEST FRIENDS... SO MY LAWYER CALLS ME UP 2 DAYS BEFORE COURT AND SAYS THEY WILL NOT DROP THE DUI BUT THEY ARE GONNA REDUCE IT DOWN FOR YOU TO A RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AND DISMISS ALL THE OTHER CHARGES ON YOU... HE SAID I KNOW YOU THINK IS A LOOSE BUT YOUR NOT LOSEING YOUR ACTUALLY WINNING BC WITH IT REDUCED TO RECKLESS YOU GET TO KEEP YOUR CDLS... I SAID YEAH BUT IN CDL WORLD ITS JUST AS BAD!!! HE SAID NO YA SEE THERE A MILLION DIFFERENT MEANINGS TO RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT HE SAID THIS AINT GONNA EFFECT YOUR CDL WHATSOEVER HE SAID IT WILL LOOK LIKE U BASICALLY WALKED IN A CROWED WITH A MACHETE SWINGING AROUND IN THE AIR PUTTING PEOPLES LIVES IN DANGER.. HE SAID THIS IS WORKED OUT TO WHERE ITS NOT EVEN GONNA BE A DRIVING CHARGE AT ALL.. SO I WAS LIKE OK THEN COOL CAUSE THATS ALL IM WORRIED ABOUT IS MY LIVELIHOOD... SO I MADE THE PLEA AND GUESS WHAT??? SURE ENOUGH THATS WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT HIM AND THE DA WERE BEST FRIENDS... I GOT 48 HR SENTENCE IN JAIL, 100 HRS COMMUNITY SERVICE, 1 YEAR SUPERVISED PROBATION $350 FINE AND ONLY DIFFERENCE IN THE DUI PUNISHMENT AND RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT IN TN IS DUI YOU GET YOUR LICENSE TOOK ON TOP OF THE SAME PUNISHMENT AS THE RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT... AND LIKE I SAID THIS WAS IN 2017 AND THEY JUST CONVICTED ME JUNE OF THIS YEAR SO I FINALLY FOUND A DUMPTRUCK POSITION THAT GAVE ME A CHANCE... BUT ALL THEM OTR TRUCKING COMPANIES SAY NOPE NOT FOR ATLEAST 3 YRS FROM THE CONVICTION DATE!!!! I WAS LIKE WTF??? SO I CAME ON HERE LOOKING FOR THE 2ND CHANCE COMPANIES ALSO... BUT IVE GOT 5 YEARS PUSHING THE BIG ROAD, I CANT SETTLE FOR LESS THAN WHAT IMMA MAKING NOW SO UNLESS I CAN FIND SOMTHING REAL SPECTACULAR IM SCREWED TOO... 2.5 MORE YEARS LOL STUPID ### ####, FELLAS I MEAN YA KNOW HAD ID BEEN IN THE TRUCK THEN YEAH I COULD SEE THAT AND KEYS IN IT TOO I COULD UNDERSTAND POSSIBLY CHARGING ME BUT WAS STANDING BEHIND MY TAILGATE WHEN THEY CAME PILEING IN....