Traffic School

[McPhishy]

Can anyone tell me what Level II traffic school is like? I have to take 3 hours for a speeding ticket, will there be an exam at the end? From the website, looks like there will be:

Groups are led by Master’s level individuals with professional social work or counseling backgrounds. It is participatory in format, with small group discussions, role playing, problem solving and structured feedback. Each participant examines how their attitudes, emotions and personal value system affect driving behaviors. The objective is to understand and change poor driving attitudes by understanding the reasons for current driving habits. The program also stresses accepting responsibility, rather than blaming other drivers or the police.

FYI I was doing 81 in a 70 on a freeway. I gotta do 3 hours of this.

 

[Knowdafish]

It varies around the country. It depends on your location. I'm not sure what its like in "N/A".

 

[McPhishy]

It varies around the country. It depends on your location. I'm not sure what its like in "N/A".

MI, I'm just wondering if there's gonna be an exam at the end or if I just gotta sit through the class and I'm done. All this trouble for 81 in a 70 on a freeway, never speed people (or get caught).

 

[Otolith]

The "tests" are just little surveys you fill out after watching the videos or having a collective discussion with the class. Just to make sure you were half way paying attention common sense type stuff. Traffic school is usually pretty boring with a peppering of dui and seatbelt less driver horror stories. I've had to go 3x over the years due to my lead foot :/

 

[studd muffin]

Are you doing it online? What my friend did was she used two computers and logged onto both. She used one to take the exam on and use the other to find answers She did the exam at home. The questions didnt seem to hard.

 

[ballist3k]

Not sure why you would have to do Driving School for that?!? 81 in a 70.....Cause i've done much more then that and the police officer/ state trooper was kind enough to let me go on a warning you just gotta be respectful and talk to them in a respectful manner. Either you got caught by a cop that was having a bad day, you mouthed off to him, or you went to court and the judge saw your multiple tickets and finally gave you the boot to driving school. but goodluck! and im guessing you will be going to the one on Utica Rd. the Macomb Traffic School? been their once but it was for something else, they put all the classes at that place to save money i guess.

 

[McPhishy]

Not sure why you would have to do Driving School for that?!? 81 in a 70.....Cause i've done much more then that and the police officer/ state trooper was kind enough to let me go on a warning you just gotta be respectful and talk to them in a respectful manner. Either you got caught by a cop that was having a bad day, you mouthed off to him, or you went to court and the judge saw your multiple tickets and finally gave you the boot to driving school. but goodluck! and im guessing you will be going to the one on Utica Rd. the Macomb Traffic School? been their once but it was for something else, they put all the classes at that place to save money i guess.

Dude, when I got pulled over I had never been pulled over by a cop before. Not a previous speeding ticket. I was polite and even said thank you when he walked away. Got an attorney to take care of the ticket for me to get the ticket reduce to a non-moving violation (court date same as exam date). I didn't mind paying the fine. The judge was fine with reducing the ticket to non-moving, so was the prosecutor, the cop just refused. My attorney actually got into a fight (words) with the cop since the cop refuse to reduce the ticket without me taking traffic school. As my attorney put it "You my friend are the most unlucky guy I've ever met, this cop is a prick, he's a dick. People with a clean record like yours will just get off with a non-moving violation..." My guy is a good attorney too, got my friend who was doing 50 over off with a non-moving violation. Gotta take this class on Saturday...

 

[jlnguyen74]

You get a "speeding" ticket.. How can it become a "non-moving" violation? It's quite different in your state. In regard of traffic school, it's different from state to state. 3 hours is not bad, consider a traffic school here will be 8 hours.

 

[McPhishy]

You get a "speeding" ticket.. How can it become a "non-moving" violation? It's quite different in your state. In regard of traffic school, it's different from state to state. 3 hours is not bad, consider a traffic school here will be 8 hours.

Plea agreement, instead of actually going to trial I pay the orignal fine of the speeding ticket and they charge me with a non-moving violation (parking ticket) instead of a speeding ticket. That way my insurance doesn't go up and the courts aren't tied up with my speeding ticket case. All the city wants is the money, and they really don't want to waste their time on a $100 ticket.

 

[jlnguyen74]

Plea agreement, instead of actually going to trial I pay the orignal fine of the speeding ticket and they charge me with a non-moving violation (parking ticket) instead of a speeding ticket. That way my insurance doesn't go up and the courts aren't tied up with my speeding ticket case. All the city wants is the money, and they really don't want to waste their time on a $100 ticket.

You guys are quite lucky. My last speeding ticket was 2 years ago, close to Xmas, 80mph on a 65mph freeway. It came out more than $300. If I decided to go to traffic school, the fine, the fee, and the school fee total could come out close to $500. I fought the ticket, and WON!! Here we don't have the option of reduce it to non-moving violation. The only option we have is go to traffic school, and can't go more than one in every 18 months, or not going to traffic school, and get a point that will be expired in 18 months.