what we will do for you
CDL holders: If you have a CDL and pick up a moving violation, you know* you have just two options. Take it to trial, or Pay it. We prefer "take it to trial"!!! How about you? All infractions are now recorded in the CDLIS and MCMIS data bases, and are personal to the driver and co-driver (if any), as well as the company. There are very many ways to win in trial. I have been trying and winning traffic cases for 22 years. Actually going to trial. Not just showing up. Do we win them all? OF COURSE NOT. Nobody wins them all.
It is impossible. I am not going to lie to you. Not to get, or to keep, your business. Will I do my absolute darndest to win for you? YOU CAN COUNT ON IT, SIRs (and MADAMEs!!).
We explore every avenue to dismiss or invalidate the ticket. If that is unsuccessful, we prepare for trial.
*Federal Law prohibits "masking" (that is; prohibits them "giving" you deferred adjudication, and "defensive driving" for your alleged "moving violation".
I wrote the law that got you "deferred"s for weight, administrative, and equipment violations.
I had the opportunity to question Rebekah Hibbs, Mgr., Enforcement Division - TDPS, about their policies and "masking" . The results are that they do not look past the entries that come to them for recordation. So if a court wants to give you deferred adjudication for a moving violation, or to "manufacture" a failure to appear that never really happened . . . ILLEGALLY . . . it will not, as things stand, show up on your record. BUT, these same courts are getting audited. They are definitely going to be in poop city when that happens to them. YOU MIGHT BE TOO!! So weight your decisions very carefully. There is nothing, after all, like "going to the source" to dispel "BS stories".
My next attempt to get in touch with her will be regarding these merciless disqualification letters that are going out. It just can't be that they can take away your livelihood without notice and without any ability to expose unjust or incorrect disqualifications. But the DPS is claiming that they must take them and can so without notice or an opportunity for hearing. How much do they want to bet?
We can get cases dismissed. Not all of them, of course, but enough to make it matter. We will take a win, any legal way we can. We have represented truck drivers in jury trials (going to the Judge = "man guilty!") all over the State since September 1, 2003, when all this mess got started.
Regular License Holders: If you have a 'regular' Driver's License, you have more options, but remember, both a driving safety course and Deferred come with a cost, in time and money . . . and you didn't even put up a fight. So we start from "you are presumed innocent" and fight to keep it that way. We will negotiate if you tell us to. You are the boss, after all. But seeking to negotiate is not where we start. We have been representing regular license holders since April, 1989. That is more than 22 years now. Send us your ticket with your contact information, to get started.
