How to Fight a Speeding Ticket in California

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You’re driving down the freeway at seventy miles per hour and all of a sudden, you see red lights flashing behind you. You get that feeling in your stomach that is all too familiar to some of us drivers and you know what is ahead. “Pull over immediately” says the officer on the loudspeaker and you comply by pulling over onto the shoulder of the freeway and wait patiently while the officer runs your plates through the computer.
Some of us have never been pulled over before while others have experienced this situation one too many times. Here are some tips that may help you get out of the ticket even before the officer writes you up and after if you do get a citation:

Steps

1. Step 1: Be calm and polite to the officer. You want your attitude to assist you in achieving your desired outcome not hinder it. Whatever you do, do not argue with the officer or create any sort of animosity. Arguing with the officer does not increase your likelihood of leniency so treat him as if you would want to be treated.
2. Step 2: Turn your car off and make the interior of the car completely visible so that the officer can see into your car by turning the lights on. This is so that you can take away any unnecessary tension that the officer may have in pulling a car over. He does not know that your car is not loaded with drugs or weapons and they are trained to expect the worse. By having your hands in plain sight and the interior of the car visible, you are showing complete submission to him and will be better prepared to explain your situation.
3. Step 3: Be respectful to the officer and comply with his requests. Do not start asking him questions or begin pleading with him until after he has gotten through his initial questions. Once he has gotten your information ask him politely if you can speak with him regarding your speeding violation. Plead your case in a very polite and non-combative manner. Most officers will be lenient with you if you simply admit to speeding and tell them that his will cripple you financially. Let them know that you are very sorry for speeding and that you realized you were speeding but felt the flow of traffic was also going at the same speed but you were at fault for assuming that.
4. Step 4: If the officer does not let you go and he decides to write you up a ticket, do not change your attitude into a combative one because you want to be as inconspicuous as possible to the officer.
5. Step 5: Once you leave the scene after receiving the speeding ticket, remember all the details of the experience as closely as possible and call Ticket Busters, (http://www.ticketbust.com). They will help you beat a California speeding ticket!
6. Step 6: Look up your exact vehicle code in a search engine like Google or Yahoo. Use the particular VC number on the ticket in the look-up field and find a reliable website for details (as an example, use the California Department of Motor Vehicles site at http://www.dmv.ca.gov).
7. Step 7: Once you have the exact verbiage of the vehicle code, look for any loopholes. Consider the following story as an example of how important these vehicle code loopholes are.
8. An interesting scenario out of Northern California shows how to beat a speeding ticket. A gentleman was traveling at about 85 miles per hour on the highway. He knew that there were two spots up ahead where CHP officers ‘hide’ and wait for the unsuspecting speeders to race by. This man reduced his speed prior to passing the ‘hiding’ officers but, to his dismay, the CHP squad car pulled out and turned its lights on even though he had slowed to 65 miles per hour. When the officer approached his car, the gentleman asked why he was being pulled over. The officer responded that it was because the gentleman was traveling close to 85 miles per hour. The gentleman rebutted stating that he was only going 65 miles per hour. The officer then informed the driver that an aircraft had clocked him at 85 miles per hour a few miles back. “Wow,” the driver thought to himself, “how am I going to beat this speeding ticket?”.
9. Well little did he know that he was actually in a pretty good position to beat this speeding ticket. The way that the aircraft ‘clocked’ him was by clocking the time it took the gentleman’s car to travel between two fixed points on the ground. Although math doesn’t lie, there are a few points that should be examined in this scenario. First and most important, because two officers were involved in giving this citation, both must show up for court. If either officer does not show up, the gentleman’s case is dismissed. If the driver gets the case postponed, there is an even more likely chance that both officers will not show up. Secondly, being caught by an officer in an aircraft is a bit of a slippery slope. If one reads the law carefully he may be able to beat his speeding ticket. Consider this:
10. “40800. (a) A traffic officer on duty for the exclusive or main purpose of enforcing the provisions of Division 10 (commencing with Section 20000) or 11 (commencing with Section 21000) shall wear a full distinctive uniform, and if the officer while on duty uses a motor vehicle, it must be painted a distinctive color specified by the commissioner.”
11. What are the chances the officer in the aircraft was in full uniform? How about the aircraft itself, would it be considered a motor vehicle? Was it painted a distinctive color as specified by the commissioner? These are all valid points that can lead some to beat a speeding ticket before some judges. Ticket Busters (www.ticketbust.com) can help with all the necessary paperwork, etc.
12. To recap, read the law carefully for any loopholes you can use to your advantage and use the services of a company like Ticket Busters of California (www.ticketbust.com) to help beat your speeding ticket.

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“Here’s my story and I hope it forfills you with enrichment and that it gives
you inspiration. Recently an officer pulled me over claiming I was doing 65
down a hill in my Big Rig in a 55 mph posted speed limit. I was shocked with
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It is always so nice to receive notes like the following. As we get these compliments on our traffic ticket document filing service, we will continue to share them with you….

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Steve Miller, CEO of Ticket Busters of California announces Their Launch of ‘Fight Scandalous Sites’ Campaign

Recently Ticket Busters of California has become victim to a growing revenue scam on the Internet via a popular complaint site. “After investigating our options to rebut the complaint, our staff was astonished to find that there is a growing trend over the Internet of site like these; those allowing anyone to post a negative comment about any business or individual,” explained Steven Miller, CEO for Ticket Busters. With that information, Ticket Busters decided to launch a ‘Fight Scandalous Sites’ Campaign.

Miller goes on to say that, “our staff found limited ways to combat the complaints and other negative comments, other than to pay the site owner to contest the complaint or ‘monitor’ their site for removal of these comments”. While these sites do not charge any fee for the posting of these potentially scandalous comments, they charge the business or individual whom the complaint was lodged against. Also, these sites do not verify the legitimacy of the commandant or make any attempt to verify the legitimacy of the complaint. Ticket Busters found numerous stories from other business owners about postings that turned out to be from competititors or disgruntled ex-employees that were simply trying to bring negative attention to the business.

Ticket Busters of California decided that it was important to bring public awareness to this revenue generating and slanderous practice. In their campaign release, Ticket Busters pleads with the general consumer to, “please be careful not to believe everything you read on the Internet. Here is an example of a very popular complaint site and the lawsuits being brought against the company for allowing anyone to write anything:

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“ The campaign goes on to add, “did you know, as an example that a good amount of the activity on these sites are either shakedown artists or complaints initiated by competition? Help us in our efforts at Ticketbust.com to put an end to erroneous and misguided complaints by not clicking on the negative postings of these sites in the search engine results. The more clicks they get, the more popular these scandalous sites become. We want to annihilate these scandalous sites from the legitimate listings of Google and other search engines”.

If you would like to discuss your concerns with our CEO directly, please call 800.850.8038 or post a comment here. 

For additional information on the Ticket Busters Campaign to Fight Scandalous Sites, please visit http://www.ticketbust.com/fight-scandalous-sites/index.asp . For more information on fighting scandalous sites, please visit our “Scandalous Site Resources and Links” page at http://www.ticketbust.com/fight-scandalous-sites/inbound.asp . If you would like more information on how you can Join the Fight Against Scandalous Sites, including adding our “Help Fight Scandalous Sites” icon to your website, check out our Join the Fight page at http://www.ticketbust.com/fight-scandalous-sites/join-the-fight.asp or call 800.850.8038.

About Ticket Busters of California: Ticket Busters (ticketbust.com), located in Westlake Village, California, was founded in 2004 by Steven F. Miller. This service has assisted tens of thousands of Californians with filing the necessary paperwork to dismiss their traffic tickets. Ticket Busters (ticketbust.com) was originally created to alleviate the tedious and time-consuming process of attempting to contest a traffic ticket on your own. Mr. Miller wanted to create a fully automated and user-friendly online service for California drivers to submit their traffic ticket information and process the necessary documents. Unfortunately, there will always be a small percent of people that are unhappy and are free to post whatever they like, whether it is true or not, on unsavory sites like complaints.com, etc. Of this small percent of our client base, we have found that many of those did not read our Money Back Guarantee Terms and Conditions, which we encourage our website visitors to do throughout the site. We also always strongly encourage clients to give us their feedback directly so that we can work to resolve their issues. In five years, we have processed over 12,000 tickets for our clients and are a member in excellent standing with the Better Business Bureau.

We have recently received two more client testimonials (unsoliciated by our staff) from customers who are thrilled with our service (below)  It is an honor to be ackwlowledged by our clients and we would welcome the chance to do the same for you if you are faced with a traffic ticket, speeding ticket, red light tickets, cell phone violation or red light camera ticket.  Feel to free to give our staff a call at 800.850.8058, or provide your ticket information online at http://ticketbust.com/beattraffictickets/fight-a-traffic-ticket.html :)

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Dear Ticket Busters of California,
I just wanted to let you know I received a court response today on my ticket# T694669. They judged me not guilty and are sending me back my $202 ticket bail.   I don’t know how you did it but thank you. I am very impressed. I suspect we will be talking again in the future, but hopefully not for some time.
Sincerely,
  
Michael W., Orange County

————and this one from Jim in San Diego———–

Dear Steven,
I have received the TR-215 Decision and Notice of Decision.  I am absolutely astonished by the court decision of Dismiss.  The personal check was cashed some time ago, so I thought that it was all over.  Now the clerk of the court has to reimburse me for the check amount.  I just want to say that because of your unique method of articulating the facts; you have proven that your company, The Original Ticket Busters, does do exactly what it is suppose to do.  I am so pleased with the outcome and the fact that my unblemished driving record in California will remain clean.  If there is a recommendation that I may be able to make with respect to the success of your company, please let me know.  So I just want to say thank you very much!

Best regards,
Jim K., San Diego

On May 6th, 2009, Steve Miller, CEO of Ticket Busters of California was invited as a representative traffic ticket expert on the #1 Northern California Radio Talk Station, KRXA 540 (AM) and Energy 92.7 Pure Dance (FM).  The topic of the show was Highway Robbery.

After some technical difficulty at the beginning of the show, the topics of discussion included an incident in Texas where a police officer demanded thousands of dollars in cash for a driver he had cited.  The man had in excess of $8,000 in cash as he was on his way to purchase a new vehicle.  The case has sparked discussions all over the country about traffic tickets. 

The remainder of the show was dedicated to California-related traffic tickets, violations, horror stories and informative facts Steve Miller shares about the current state of law enforcement in California and how demand for increased revenue plays a role in traffic tickets.

To listen to the radio show, please visit http://www.ticketbust.com (scroll down past the videos to the audio file). 

If you have any questions about how to beat traffic tickets and fight speeding tickets, similar to the numerous callers into the show, please feel free to contact our experts at 800.850.8038, info@ticketbust.com or visit www.TicketBust.com

We are happy to announce that we have relocated our corporate offices to better serve our valuable clients.  Beginning March 31st, 2009, please use the following address for all your traffic and speeding ticket needs:

5716 Corsa Avenue, Suite 104, Westlake Village, CA 91362

Our toll free number remains the same, 800.850.8038.

Steve Miller, CEO of  Ticket Busters said, “This move will provide the additional space we need to better service our growing client base.”

For more information on the relocation, please contact us at 800.850.8038 or info@ticketbust.com.