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(california) Speeding ticket in ups vehicle what now??
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<blockquote data-quote="pickup" data-source="post: 696828"><p>When I drove into California from Arizona, many many moons ago with a tractor trailer, the first posted sign I saw for the speed limit was 70 mph ( i believe). 10 seconds of traveling time later, there was another sign that stated 55 for trucks. This pattern kept repeating and I kept missing that second sign for about a half an hour. I finally picked up on this fact when I was traveling at 70 mph for about a 1/2 hour, passing all the tractor trailers in the right lane(who knew better than I did) , who were also unintentionally blocking my seeing the relevant speed limit signs. It kept bothering me that I was passing up guys who could travel at the speed I was traveling and I suspected something was amiss. </p><p></p><p>I finally was able to spot the relevant sign and slowed it down but drove about a half hour breaking the speed limit.</p><p></p><p>This is the only scenario that a person could break this law without being an intentional speeder. I don't think it is a mistake that California spaces those speed limit signs apart like that. That much being said. There is a big difference( for a commercial truck driver) getting a 14 mph over the speed limit ticket and a 15 mph ticket. The points, monetary fines, and other stakes go up considerably when you exceed the speed limit by 15 mph. The cops know this and often give the offender a speeding ticket of 13 or 14 mph over instead of the one your friend got. </p><p></p><p>Now speculation, (which always gets me in trouble on this site), your friend the speeder might have done something to piss off the officer (the one who wrote the ticket) in order to receive the ticket he did. If he played his cards better, he would have walked off with a lesser ticket while the cop still would have had one more ticket towards his quota.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pickup, post: 696828"] When I drove into California from Arizona, many many moons ago with a tractor trailer, the first posted sign I saw for the speed limit was 70 mph ( i believe). 10 seconds of traveling time later, there was another sign that stated 55 for trucks. This pattern kept repeating and I kept missing that second sign for about a half an hour. I finally picked up on this fact when I was traveling at 70 mph for about a 1/2 hour, passing all the tractor trailers in the right lane(who knew better than I did) , who were also unintentionally blocking my seeing the relevant speed limit signs. It kept bothering me that I was passing up guys who could travel at the speed I was traveling and I suspected something was amiss. I finally was able to spot the relevant sign and slowed it down but drove about a half hour breaking the speed limit. This is the only scenario that a person could break this law without being an intentional speeder. I don't think it is a mistake that California spaces those speed limit signs apart like that. That much being said. There is a big difference( for a commercial truck driver) getting a 14 mph over the speed limit ticket and a 15 mph ticket. The points, monetary fines, and other stakes go up considerably when you exceed the speed limit by 15 mph. The cops know this and often give the offender a speeding ticket of 13 or 14 mph over instead of the one your friend got. Now speculation, (which always gets me in trouble on this site), your friend the speeder might have done something to piss off the officer (the one who wrote the ticket) in order to receive the ticket he did. If he played his cards better, he would have walked off with a lesser ticket while the cop still would have had one more ticket towards his quota. [/QUOTE]
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