traffic tickets for traveling techs

[fixthecopier]

I am curious. If you drive for a living, you increse the odds of getting tickets, so how many of you have had them, and how does your shop handle it. I got two in ten years. The first MP got me doing 57 in a 35. As soon as he pulled away, I drove to the MP headquarters and found the head admin lady and told her that I was her copy repairman and I did not want to pay it. She ask if I was guilty. "Yes I am" I replied. "Thanks for being honest " she said, and made the ticket go away. The second was for putting my truck in reverse and tapping the bumper of an SUV. My boss paid that one for me.

[totoro]

I average 150-200+ miles/day and have had 1 warning for speeding in 15+ years of being a driving tech. Have had about 12 parking tickets though.

[Setright]

In twelve years, I've had one speeding ticket. Being Denmark, I was fined $100 for doing 33 in a 30mph zone!

I have had 4 parking tickets, HOWEVER, I have only paid 1 off them. The other three were written by the over-eager Copenhagen parking wardens, and a letter informing them of how my car was not violating any regulations saw them dismissed.
I know the rules

All citations are personal, the companies here don't pay.

[Brave Hart]

Calls are just too far apart to drive in the speed limit.

[Setright]

Not quite Ms. Daisy.

It's all about keeping your speed down where the police like to stand. We have mobile camera vans, and fixed cameras too.

M-way speed limit is 130km/h (80mph), and you can lose your license for doing 160km/h (100mph). It's nuts.

Germany, which is our neighbor to the south still has large amounts of speed limit free motorways, and funnily enough, they have the same number of accidents per driven kilometer as we do here.

Explain to me again how speed causes accidents???

Driving on German m-ways you can sense that people are far more alert, since they know that the outside lane could be filled with a 250km/h+ Porsche any second.

[Brave Hart]

Our speed limit on high ways are 120kmh here.
I hardly ever get tickets on the high ways, my problem is the suburbs as the speed limit is only 60kmh, try and do eight calls a day driving at that speed!

The copers never stand in the open were you can see them, they always hiding in the bushes or behind walls, sneaky buggers they are here.

[Setright]

Sneaky, yes, but here they like to stand where the limit drops. So as you come off a major road (80km/h), and hit the city sign where the limit drops to 50km/h, you have to keep a watchful eye on your speed. Cross the line at 66km/h and your license is in danger

NEVER see the police where accidents actually happen and the speed could be a contributing factor to the damage done.

It's just to generate revenue....

[banginbishop]

[RRodgers]

I saw thanks for the ticket... oh and by the way... here is the bill to fix your copier.

[peterepeat]

1 speeding ticket in 15 years(in the company van, anyways) but average at least a parking tix per month in Boston. Company pays as long as it's legit & not stupid like Handicapped spot or something.

[Shadow1]

Plenty of parking tickets - fought some and had them dismissed, paid a couple of bogus tickets because it would cost more in time to fight them.

Company doesn't pay tickets officially, but parking meters get REALLY expensive at times.

[mascan42]

Never had any moving violations, but plenty of parking tickets. In a couple of towns, they hover over the parking meters waiting for them to expire. The company's never shelled out anything for my tickets, though. I've only beaten one for an expired inspection sticker, by pointing out that the date was so faded that I couldn't read it and didn't know it had expired.

[fixthecopier]

This does not count as a traffic ticket story, but it funny as hell if you file it under bad first days on the job. Several years ago my shop hired a new tech with no experience and trained him two weeks and then sent him to my area. He was given his truck on a Friday. This guy is kind of meek and timid. On Monday he is supposed to drive to the military base with one of the bosses sons to collect meters.I have to show him how. I am waiting and waiting and starting to get pissed. Then my phone rings. It is the bosses son. They are being detained at the front gate. You see all vehicles that do not have a sticker and drivers who do not have military I.D.or a pass have to be searched to enter base. Now at random during these searches they can take a vehicle aside and a cop with white gloves will come out and take a cloth swab and rub it over the stearing wheel and other parts of the inside. Then they take it in and test for all kinds of things. This new guys truck came up hot for coke. The military police were called and they were thoroughly searched. They were let go after nothing was found. The MP's said that sometimes it can come off money onto peoples hands. I think both of these boys almost pissed themselves. How is that for a smashing first day.

[FASTSTI]

But if purchasing a radar/laser detector remeber bargain=crap
if you can't afford quality don't settle for the cheap the end result you wished you would by a solid radar detector instead of that cobra,radioshack crap they sell

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<-------- Look at my avatar my regular car is identical to this one does it look like I drive slow?

[Shadow1]

I hope you realize we've all just jinxed ourselves and will be pulled over and ticketed Monday morning for sure.