THE SPEEDING TICKET MYTH
73Think about what you know regarding speeding tickets. When was the first time that you
ever heard of them? Maybe you were in your car with your parents when they got pulled
over. Maybe you were taught them in kindergarten or in grade school. Maybe a local
friendly police officer came to your school to deliver a lecture about not speeding. What do
you remember learning? SPEEDING IS BAD!
Now, try and remember back to those days right before you got your license. Do you
remember going through a Driver’s Ed class from your high school? Did you take a class from
a local DMV or read a manual? What did they tell you?
SPEEDING IS BAD!
Think about the last time you received a speeding ticket. Did the officer lecture you? Did the
judge scold you? Did the insurance company raise your rates? What information does this
reinforce?
SPEEDING IS BAD!
We are conditioned to think that speeding is unlawful and unethical from a very early age,
and this knowledge is constantly reinforced throughout our lives. Two questions immediately
come to mind:
1. Is speeding actually bad?
2. Why are we conditioned to think this way?
In regards to the first question, the honest answer is yes and no. Obviously, driving at a
higher speed increases your chances of suffering a fatal injury if you collide with another car
or a roadside object. Faster vehicles are harder to control and take longer to come to a halt
in case something suddenly jumps in front of you. Generally, the faster you drive, the more
dangerous driving is.
Obviously, this is not something that I advocate. Driving at an unsafe speed is pointless, only
saves you a few minutes of time, and can endanger the lives of other drivers.
But we need to consider the terminology here. Let’s say that driving in a way that increases
the danger level of the driver and other drivers is unsafe driving. But is speeding always
unsafe driving? Speeding is defined as exceeding the posted speed limit, not being unsafe.
Is the speed limit always the best indicator of what speeds are safe? Absolutely Not! If you
drive 45 mph on an empty road where the speed limit is 30 mph, are you driving unsafely?
The chances are that you aren’t. So, when you see those red and blue lights come on behind
you, you will end up feeling picked-on and ripped off.
So, unsafe driving is certainly bad, but if speeding doesn’t consist of unsafe driving, then it’s
harmless. Still, we were conditioned from a very early age to think that all speeding is bad.
Why?
The answer is very complicated and hard to pin down. On one hand, ingrained knowledge of
the possible consequences of unsafe driving can save lives and reduce property damage. You
can’t really argue with that.
On the other hand, however, this ingrained knowledge can be used against you to justify
charging you with outrageous speeding fines and penalties that are then used to fund
private companies, city governments, and lawyers’ extravagant lifestyles! Because you’ve
had the idea that speeding is bad hammered into your head year after year, you won’t think
twice about writing that check.
But maybe you should! Are you aware of how many other people benefit from your cost?
Insurance companies:
Besides paying the cost of the ticket, your insurance company will
greatly raise the cost of your coverage. The average speeder gets a rate increase of 25% per
year for a single offense! That can be well over $600 per year in some cases! Now, you may
be thinking "That’s only fair. People who drive faster get into more accidents." That’s true.
But what about all of those speeders who aren’t driving unsafely? Does going ten miles
over that speed limit really make you more of a liability? Probably not. So, even if you aren’t
increasing their risk, you are filling out their coffers with ludicrous premiums. The point of an
insurance company is not to ensure the safety of your property or body; it’s to make a profit.
Nothing helps an insurance company meet their bottom line better than a speeder who
doesn’t increase their risk but is forced to pay a higher rate. What’s worse, these companies
know this very well! Just last year, the Geico Insurance Company gave United States police
forces over twenty million dollars to upgrade their speed detection equipment and to supply
additional radar guns. Why would they do this? Do you think a private company would give
this kind of money away out of legitimate concern for your safety? Certainly not. Geico
knew that it could cut a larger profit margin if police forces caught more speeders!
City Governments:
Many cities do not charge a sales tax. Often times, these city governments
are under-funded and cannot meet all of their citizen’s needs without another way to come
up with the funds. Where do you think that ridiculous speeding fine goes after you pay it?
No matter how you spin it, the simple fact of the matter is that the more speeders the city
catches, the more money they will have! With the corrupt nature of many city governments,
do you really want to cut a check to help some politician buy another flashy car (so HE can
speed and get away with it?)
Police Officers:
City governments believe that, without setting a quota, many officers won’t
pull in enough speeders to generate the appropriate amount of revenue. Sure, they’ll still
catch the really bad ones, the ones driving unsafely, and the ones that deserve to be caught.
But they won’t catch enough people like you and me! The city depends on minor speeding
offenders for funding, so they set quotas for officers to fill per months, or they can lose
their salary and become disqualified for promotions. That means, at the end of each month,
officers who are behind on their quotas are going to need to pull people over for frivolous
speeding charges! Did you put anyone else’s life in danger for going eight miles per hour
over the speed limit? No! But they have a quota to meet, so they’ll pull you over anyway.
Lawyers:
Most lawyers do not like being involved with traffic law because the amount of
money involved is relatively small compared to what they can pull for larger cases. However,
lawyers who are new to the business will often need to take these kinds of cases in order to
make ends meet. While these lawyers can usually get your ticket dismissed (often using the
same methods I will share later in this book), they will charge you essentially the price of the
ticket, claiming that it was worth it because they don’t get points on your license or raise
your insurance rates. But isn’t the point of getting a ticket dismissed to save money?
Considering the amount of people who depend on you to pay your ticket in order to gain
in some way or another, doesn’t it seem pretty hard to simply believe that the system exists
to protect drivers?
How can this system claim to be totally honest when so many people
benefit from you getting caught speeding?!?!
The simple answer is that it can’t. While the system works well enough to catch drivers that
are driving recklessly, drunk, or aggressively, it taxes honest people like ourselves way too
often.
This is the myth of the speeding ticket: if you’re caught speeding, you did something wrong
and you must pay. It’s very black and white. But we in the real world know that there are
just too many shades of grey for this to be fair.
That’s why I designed this system. My techniques can help people like ourselves break the
cycle and avoid paying out of our ears for fines that we don’t deserve.
The Cost of Tickets
Since the global economic collapse, the average American is struggling to make ends meet.
Unemployment is near ten percent, and foreclosures are on the rise. It’s never been more
important to save money in every little way that we can.
Are you aware of how badly a speeding ticket can set you back in this process?
The average cost of a speeding ticket today is almost Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars! And
the sad part is that’s just the cost of the ticket. You will need to add the increase in your
insurance premiums to that amount as well. So, let’s say you pay $1600 per year for your
insurance, and your rate takes a 25% hike after the ticket. This will increase the total cost of
your ticket to $850. You can lose sight of your speedometer, harmlessly go a little faster than
the posted limit, and suddenly find yourself $850 in the hole. Let’s take a minute to think
about what that money could have been spent on instead of needlessly paying your ticket:
•
You could have put yourself and your family up in a hotel room for over a week
•
You could have paid for two plane tickets to almost anywhere in the world
•
You could have upgraded your car with a new sound system or paint job
•
You could have bought groceries for well over two months
•
You could have invested it in the stock market, which means you’re also losing whatever
that stock would have yielded
•
You could have bought a new TV or paid the cable bill for up to a year
•
You could have paid off part of your credit card debt
And so on. I’m sure you can think of literally thousands of things you would rather have
spent your money on than paying that speeding fine. So why pay it? Later in this text, I’ll
show you a way to get around the system that the courts desperately don’t want you to
know.
Some Anecdotes
Before I started writing this book, I went around and asked people for their most
frustrating stories regarding getting pulled over for speeding. Here are two of my favorites.
I believe that they’re useful for illustrating the type of situation that my system is designed to
remedy.
Margaret from Fort Worth, TX:
"I was driving my child to school one day. My son has a
particularly difficult teacher (he’s in the seventh grade) who automatically fails students for
more than ten tardy marks. Because of auto troubles that my family has historically had, he
was at his ninth. We can’t really afford fixing our car at this moment, not on our budget. The
thing refused to start again, and when I finally got it running, we only had ten minutes to
get him into class before he would fail for the year. I decided to step on it a little, and went
45 down a back road that would have gotten us there on time. Sure enough, I see a cop turn
the corner after me and turn on his lights. I pleaded with the officer and shared my story, but
he didn’t buy it, and issued me a three hundred dollar ticket. He must have had to meet his
quota or had absolutely no heart. Thankfully, my son passed, but only after several parentteacher
conferences. We had to cancel the family vacation to compensate for the cost of the
ticket and the insurance hike, though."
Do you really think Margaret deserved all of those consequences? I don’t think so, and if
you’ve bought this book, then I would guess you don’t think so either. Here’s another:
Thomas from Boston, MA:
"My brother has diabetes. When he had an episode, my wife and I
tried to speed to the hospital to see if he was OK. I was so focused on his health that I didn’t
even bother looking at how fast I was driving. Needless to say, I was very frustrated when
the police pulled me over for speeding. When I explained my situation, he hurried with the
writing of the ticket but still decided to issue one. I went to court and argued my case, but
the judge did not dismiss my case."
Examples of innocent, hardworking people with emergencies or slight lapses in concentration
being billed and treated as criminal offenders are rampant. They happened to me, and
they’ll probably happen to you at one point in your life. After all, it’s what the system was
designed to do!
"Other Methods"
One question a lot of people asked me when I told them that I was writing this book was
"Aren’t there already plenty of effective methods for getting out of tickets? Why shouldn’t I
just use one of those?"
Well, the simple answer is that these methods simply don’t work as well as my system. The
courts and the police are bound to obey and enforce one thing: the law. Because I use a
sound, legal argument that uses precedent case law and evidence rules of procedure against
the ticket-givers, I regain the power and am able to dismiss tickets at a much higher rate!
Let’s go over some of the more common myths about how to get out of speeding tickets and
precisely why they do not work.
Ticket Lawyers:
While these people usually do a pretty good job of getting you out of your
ticket situation, my system holds several advantages over using a lawyer. One, my system
essentially includes the same tactics that lawyers would use to get the case dismissed, but
without the expensive fee. Lawyers often charge around the same price as the ticket for
their service fee. While this means that you’ll get no points on your license and no hike in
your insurance policy, it doesn’t do much to save you money for the cost of the ticket. My
system will allow you to get your case dropped for absolutely no additional charges. No
professionals, no lawyers, and no more money coming out of your pocket.
Paying the Ticket:
Many people, upon being ticketed, simply just write a check and send it on
in. Why would you do this? Remember that it’s not just a fine that you’re paying. If the only
consequence for speeding was the fine, then I wouldn’t need to be writing this book. The
auxiliary consequences of tickets are often more painful and more costly than the upfront
expenses. Your insurance rates will rise by at least 25% (on average), and "points" will be
put on your license. In some states, all it takes is three or four speeding tickets to accumulate
enough points to have your license suspended for up to a year or more! I can’t tell you
how many people have told me that they weren’t paying attention to their point totals and
suddenly found themselves incapable of driving.
Don’t pay that ticket!
Simply use the system
that I explain later in this text.
Using a Good Excuse:
If you think you can walk in to court and tell the judge a pity-story
about how you were in an emergency and needed to speed, then I’ve got some sad news for
you, my friend. Unless you can back up your story with some serious evidence, he’s going to
assume you’re lying. He has to! Think about it. If excuses frequently worked for getting out
of tickets, then everyone who was pulled over would be bending over backwards, making up
ridiculous tales about how their child has a serious disease, etc. Because excuses are so easily
fabricated, any judge in their right mind simply can’t heed them. They’ll tell you that they’re
sorry about you situation, and tell you to pay up. Plus, there’s just too much money to be
made to listen or care about your potentially legitimate excuse.
Try to Reschedule the Court Date:
Many people try this sneaky tactic, which involves
rescheduling the court date to the ticketing officer’s day off under the assumption that
he won’t show up. While this can work occasionally, it is by no means foolproof and can
backfire in several ugly ways. First of all, it can be very difficult to even get the officer’s
schedule, which means you may have to guess. Even if you do successfully move the date, the
prosecutor will ask the judge to reschedule the date again once he sees that the officer isn’t
there (it would only be fair, since he moved the date for you!) Finally, this trick has been tried
so many times that most judges and prosecutors are savvy to it. Once they see that you’re
trying to pull a fast one, they’ll be sure to throw the book at you.
Questioning the Officer’s Judgment:
One little trick that many people try to pull is to
question whether or not the officer tagged the right car with the radar gun. People try to
suggest that a truck or another car was driving much faster than them in their vicinity, and
that the officer made a mistake and pulled over the wrong person. This method
doesn’t
work, ever.
In this situation, it’s just the officer’s word versus yours, and the officer always
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