I won’t defend the guy....but after you lose your license (for whatever reason)...if you go and examine the gaining-back process (doesn’t matter what state)....there’s some serious cash involved, and at least an entire morning that you will waste at some license bureau in your home-town.
I chatted a couple of years with a trucker who was going to regain his license, and there was roughly $200 involved with the various fees and documents involved. If you are on the low-end of the spectrum for wages...even $50 is a big deal.
But all of this begs one question....if he had these 50-odd traffic tickets over the past decade...and we know that he drove the last six years without a license...why didn’t this no-license deal come up with some of these traffic ticket episodes? Did the cops just look the other way? Something about this story doesn’t fit.
perhaps he robbed the store to get the funds to pay the $1000 fine for driving without a license because he couldn’t afford the $200?
“but after you lose your license (for whatever reason)...if you go and examine the gaining-back process (doesn’t matter what state)....there’s some serious cash involved,”
Somebody I know on the low end of the spectrum with two kids lost his license over a fine that did not involve driving. Taking your license is how states force you to pay fines. If you don’t have the money for the fine and they take your license you lose your job and go on welfare, which is what happened. The fine was about $250. They add 40% when it goes into collection. Getting your license back is $495. That was a couple of years ago and he still doesn’t have his license.
Why should the police even bother enforcing traffic laws against a guy like this? Certainly he never bothered with the fines or legal repercussions. Like Captain Renault in Casablanca... “It is a game we play. They hand me a bill, I rip up the bill. It is all very convenient”.
The only thing you can do with a guy like that is incarcerate him or seize his car. The normal methods of law enforcement do not apply.
Yes. I have a couple of friends who have gone through/are going through the DUI process.
It is intricate, expensive, and difficult.
It is full of traps and time limits and payments.
I have been appalled at the insanity.
Yes, these guys made errors. But they were petty errors.
Both of them are retired, with steady incomes. The process still worked hardships on them. Trying to make it work for someone with a low level job?
Very, Very difficult.