Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Violations
-Jerry Reed-
"Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin’, we’re gonna do what they say can’t be done."
PROTECTING YOUR RIGHT TO EARN
Eliminating your obstacles
If you have a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) from any state, we at Kidder Criminal Defense understand just how important your license is to you. It is your career, your livelihood, the way you put food in your children’s mouth, and your way of life. That is because we know
without Truckers and other Commercial Drivers like you we would not be able to put food in our children’s mouths. We love, respect, and appreciate what you do for us, for Arkansas, and for the United States of America. For some reason the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the Arkansas Highway Police either does not know or does not care, but we do.
It has been an absolute passion and pleasure of mine to keep you good men and women on the road and keep y’all truckin. I have helped hundreds of truckers beat tickets, keep them off their records, or get them amended to something that won’t destroy their jobs, incomes, and livelihoods. I have saved thousands of: dollars in gas money driving to court, thousands of dollars of lost income, and thousands of dollars in insurance premiums.
CDL violations can be daunting and difficult to handle. Especially with federal law and law enforcement trying to make it even harder for you and me to do our jobs. At Kidder Criminal Defense I have handled nearly every CDL violation in the book. If it can be beat, I will beat it. If it can be amended or reduced to something that won’t cause you to lose your job I can do it. Sometimes all I can do is to keep it off your record for as long possible. Whatever you need done I will make it my mission to keep you on the road and truckin.
TESTIMONIALS
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT CDL CASES
FAQ
Why are Commercial Driver’s License tickets harder to deal with?
The Federal government, with their abundance of intelligence and good ideas, decided to pass a federal law to prohibit “Masking.” Masking is defined in 49 CFR § 384.226 as “prohibiting States from masking, deferring the imposition of judgment, or allowing an individual to enter into a diversion program that would prevent a CLP or CDL holder's conviction for any violation, in any type of motor vehicle, of a State or local traffic control law (other than parking, vehicle weight, or vehicle defect violations) from appearing on the CDLIS driver record, whether the driver was convicted for an offense committed in the State where the driver is licensed or another State.”
What all that mumbo jumbo has been interpreted by the State of Arkansas and others states to mean is that if you get a ticket and you have a CDL, they cannot let you keep it off your record. Now if you read that statute again- that is not at all what it says. Believe it or not police officers do get it wrong, and they do write tickets that should not be written. A federal statute should not prevent anyone, lawyer, judge, or prosecuting attorney from doing what is right especially in the Courts of the State of Arkansas.
Regardless of what the statute means or says it means you and I have our work cut out for us. I have a ton of experience beating and handling CDL violations and I would love to do the same for you. Call me to get started today.
I am an employer, and my driver got a ticket, can I hire you to protect our CSA score and insurance.
Absolutely-Your CSA score matters too. I am routinely hired by companies for their drivers. You do have to understand that regardless of who hires me that I represent the driver, but what is good for the driver is almost always good for the company. If am able to keep it off the drivers record, many times you can contest it on your end in the DataQ and you can try and keep it off your company insurance. It is almost always a Win/Win if the case can be beat or the charges can be reduced.
What is the DataQ and CSA score and how is it different from my MVR?
Almost every time a DOT writes a trucker a ticket, he also does an inspection report that reports the violations on the company CSA score. So the company will almost always know about the violation even if the trucker hires me and the ticket gets reduced, dismissed, or we win at trial. If we are able to make any good outcome happen it is nearly always good for your employer, but they may still fire you because of the violation due to company policy. What’s more important is that we keep your MVR clean so that when/if they do fire you, you can apply for a new job with a clean MVR.