The holiday season is here, culminating in Christmas and New Years. That means that NYC is overflowing with traffic – including vehicles, pedestrians, bikes, etc. Typically, it is a busy time for TLC drivers and drivers should be making money.
When the City is busy, the NYPD and TLC are out enforcing the rules of the road. It is easy to put a ticket received in early December aside until the middle of January or to forget about a ticket altogether. That would be a mistake.
DO NOT ignore traffic tickets or TLC tickets. A good TLC lawyer or representative will make himself or herself available to you after normal 9:00-5:00 business hours and on weekends. It is a good idea to email your lawyer or rep. a DMV and/or TLC ticket (my email is mike@traffic-summons.com) for a free initial review to determine the negative consequences of a ticket for you.
If you fail to deal with a ticket that you receive, you may end up defaulting, causing you to obtain unnecessary points and potentially jeopardizing your career as a TLC driver. Do not fall into this trap.
As I have previously discussed in numerous prior articles in this paper, TLC will add DMV points (measured from the date of a ticket plea of guilty or ruling by a judge) and TLC points (also measured from the date of a guilty plea or ruling of a hearing officer finding a driver guilty) and TLC will revoke your TLC license/job for at least one year if you have more than 10 points combined (DMV and TLC) in a 15-month period, measured from your most recent guilty ticket.
I urge you to contact me or another qualified professional within a few days of receiving a ticket. Do this during December. Do not wait or simply forget or ignore the ticket.
I can keep you on the road and dismiss or reduce many DMV and TLC tickets, avoiding the most severe consequences so you can enjoy the holiday season as a working TLC driver.
Be smart and never be penny wise and dollar foolish when it comes to hiring a professional to help you with your tickets. I have been helping TLC drivers for roughly 30 years, and I know the pitfalls of this industry.
Thanks for reading this article. Until next month, be well.
