Question about a ticket.....

Well your husband is in a fix. He's probably stuck on both violations. As for the speeding, they record pull overs nowadays and if he did not absolutely deny it all along, he's going to be found liable for that one. Even if he denied it, if the radar was calibrated before the shift, he's sunk. If at any time he admitted it or even defacto admitted it, forget it. The "I had to go real bad" excuse will always fail. There is nothing in the law that says an urgent need to go is an excuse. I've heard this exact one hundreds of times and I never relied on it as grounds for dismissal. The only hope is if he contests it and the officer doesn't show up, they might dismiss it. These are very tough to beat.
As for the logbook, it sounds like "my dog ate the homework" It is the duty of a driver to keep his logs current and readily available at all times. Period. The excuse that it was torn out and he just couldn't find it will not help and in fact will dig him deeper. Another thing that wil dig a deeper hole is to say it was "nearly" current. I have been in court thousands of times and have heard numerous excuses. This one is a loser and if I am the magistrate, I'm increasing the penalty if a defendant uses any kind of "almost" excuse. The law does not provide that the driver will keep his logs "nearly", "kind of", "almost" or "sort of" Current, nor that they will be "around here somewhere". I would actually think that going into a hearing with the excuses you have advanced here will make the consequences worse, not better. Sorry

THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, BUT JUST GENERAL INFORMATION! I AM NOT YOUR ATTORNEY AND AM NOT CURRENT ON LAWS REGARDING THIS OR ANY OTHER AREA OF LAW. THIS INFORMATION IS WORTH EXACTLY WHAT YOU PAID FOR IT (NOTHING) AND SHOULD NOT BE RELIED ON! I AM NOT AN ACTIVE ATTORNEY, NOR YOUR ATTORNEY IN ANY REGARD.

TL, JD

 

It'll take a battle to get that reduced. I'd just go ahead and pay it. Sure, it's outrageous, but there's a reason for it, and it's not about safety.

In the past decade or so, many an upper middle class family has fled California, meaning Cally now misses out on the tax revenue those people provided in the 90s. Those families now live in places like Washington state and Idaho, but Cally still must replace that tax revenue those people used to pay. How do they do it?

You have one guess as to one way they do it. Yeah, you know exactly how they make up for that shortfall.

Too many bugs on a truck windshield: $100 fine.
Unmade bunk: $100 fine.
Too large a waistline: $200 fine.
Doing 7 over in a rig: $718 fine.
Picking your nose in public: $500 fine.
Farting in public: $800 fine.

Drivers going to Cally should arrive at the Cally border and shut their trucks down for 5 days. Maybe Cally'd get the message that truck drivers aren't Arnie's #####.

 

Glad to see you guys had a favorable outcome to this. I was wondering how it went.

You could have saved us a bit of concern though. Had you mentioned he was bobtail out of the gate LOL