MARYLAND SPEEDING TICKETS

  Maryland Speeding Tickets generally carry between one and five points, and all Maryland speeding tickets may severely affect your driver’s license status, your vehicle insurance rates, and your livelihood.

  For holders of a Maryland learners permit, provisional license, driver’s license, or commercial driver’s license or commercial learners permit (a “CDL” or “CLP”), the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (“MVA”), will mandate the completion of a certified driving improvement program if you accrue five or more points in a two year period. The MVA will mandate the completion of a certified driving improvement program if you receive a Probation Before Judgement (a “PBJ”), or a conviction (and which is a guilty verdict), for a moving violation (and which is defined as points violations or certain license restriction violations), while holding a learner’s permit. The MVA will mandate the completion of a certified driving improvement program if you receive a PBJ or conviction for a moving violation while holding a provisional license. If you are sixteen years old or younger, the MVA will seek a one hundred and eighty day suspension of your driving privilege if you accrue five or more points.

  If you are given a PBJ or are convicted of any moving violation while holding a learner’s permit, the nine month learner’s permit holding period will also reset back to day one, and if you are given a PBJ or are convicted of any moving violation while holding a provisional license, the eighteen month provisional license holding period will also reset back to day one. If you are given a PBJ or are convicted of any moving violation while holding a CDL learner’s permit, the holding period may also reset back to its original time, and/or a suspension or revocation of your CDL may be sought. If you are given any combination of two PBJ’s or convictions for moving violations while holding a provisional license, the MVA will seek a thirty day suspension of your provisional license, and if you are given any combination of three PBJ’s or convictions for any moving violations while holding a provisional license, than the MVA will seek a one hundred and eighty day suspension of your provisional license. A fourth or any subsequent PBJ or conviction for a moving violation while holding a provisional license will result in further one hundred and eighty day provisional suspensions.

  The MVA will seek to suspend your learner’s permit, provisional, driver’s license, CLP, or CDL, if you accrue eight or more points in a two year period.

 

  The MVA will seek to revoke your learner’s permit, provisional, driver’s license, CLP, or CDL, if you accrue twelve or more points in a two year period.

  If in Court you are given a PBJ, than you will receive no license points if you do not have a CDL. If you do have a CLP or a CDL and are given a PBJ, than you may not receive license points if you have a Maryland CLP or CDL, but if you hold an out of state CLP or CDL, then you should receive the points. Further, if you have a CLP or CDL, in addition to being regulated by whichever state issued your CLP or CDL, you are also regulated by the Federal Government under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act (the “FMCSA), and certain combinations of PBJ’s (as a PBJ is a conviction under federal law), and/or convictions to certain offenses, including going 15 miles per hour or over the posted speed limit, can lead to mandatory CLP and CDL suspensions. CLP and CDL holders also have a federal driving record, and a federal crash record (called a “PSP”), and which all moving violations and accidents will appear on; further, the owner operator of a trucking company (meaning whoever the Federal Department of Transportation Number is registered to), will receive FMCSA safety score points points upon a company driver’s PBJ, conviction, or offenses being listed on a vehicle examination/inspection report, and which can cause many problems for the owner-operator. If you are given a PBJ or conviction to certain offenses, including speeding tickets before you obtain a CLP or CDL, then the Federal Department of Transportation Number holder may receive FMCSA safety score points once you obtain your CDL Learner’s Permit or your CDL.

  If you are given a PBJ, then your vehicle insurance rates will not increase, unless you hold a CDL issued by any state (including Maryland, as again, a PBJ is a conviction under federal law).

  For vehicle insurance rates though, leaving out PBJ’s, the actual conviction or convictions that you have are often more important than the points, as insurance underwriters and carriers may interpret certain offenses to mean that you are a dangerous or risky driver, and even a single point on your driving record may cause your vehicle insurance rates to substantially increase, or it may cause your vehicle insurance carrier to drop you as a Client.

  Maryland’s Ticket Fighter, LLC, is a company solely owned by Attorney Ben Ostroff. I am available 24 hours per day on my cell phone, at (443) 629-7278; if you call this phone number, I am the person who you will speak to, and I will provide you with a free and immediate consultation, where we will discuss your matter in-depth, and where I will try and answer all questions about your Maryland jailable traffic tickets and Maryland non-jailable traffic tickets to your satisfaction. I appear in traffic Court five days per week, I appear in all 24 State of Maryland jurisdictions, and I typically drive hundreds of miles per day helping people protect their driving privileges, insurance rates, and their livelihoods. You should always hire Marylands Ticket Fighter, LLC, for your Maryland speeding tickets.

***PLEASE NOTE THAT EVERYTHING EXPRESSED HEREIN IS THE SOLE OPINION OF MARYLAND’S TICKET FIGHTER, LLC, IT IS BASED ON MARYLAND LAW AND STATUTES THAT CAN CHANGE AT ANY TIME, AND THAT NO ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP IS ESTABLISHED BY YOUR READING OF THIS ARTICLE***