While traveling through Ohio I received a speeding ticket doing 87 in a 65. I have a NC drivers license. They say they have a law that suspends your license for 6 months if caught speeding more than 20 MPH over the speed limit while out of state. A friend said someone on the forum might have some valuable advise, besides stop speeding or I should not have been stupid enough to get caught! Oh well, it's done now. I'm currently working in Ohio and must have a drivers license to get to work. Any good advise out there besides get a bike?

22 mph over the speed limit ?? You'll get what you deserve. Stoopie!!

Get an Ohio driver's license before they pull your NC one. Jim

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I am no lawyer but I travel a lot so I am up on those laws. Most states have that law. If you pleaded guilty to the ticket in the other state you are screwed. The trick is to plead "no contest", which helps a lawyer a great deal to get you out of the mess, but you still might get what's coming to you. This is a "there for the grace of God go I" thing - I routinely is use the stretch of I-10 from the Texas line to the Mississippi border as my own personal race track and I have merely been lucky with the Louisiana Staties who always seem much more interested in busting truckers. Thanks for slowing me down. BTW, Pennsylvania and Ohio - only a damn fool speeds in those states with out of state tags.

Just out of curiosity - what if you had been caught at 20 over in NC?

probably the same thing. they are real prix about their driving privilages in NC...

try to get OH license QUICK like someone suggested...

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What makes you guys think Ohio is going to give a guy with a ticket like that on the books a driver's license? The dude better have some relatives in Virgina.

he, he, tru, tru.... actually Penn has eased up since they bumped the speed limit to 65 but the deer are everywhere and extreme caution is necessary. i normally drive the necessary minimum distances through either state....

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Another option, if its not too late, is to go to court and see what you can get. Most judges (at least Wisconsin and Illinois) will adjust it to just under a threshhold but keep the fine the same 22 over to 19 over, 16 over to 14 over. Its all about the $$$ and nothing else in speeding, except in school zones, you get the gas chamber for speeding in school zones.
If you get real lucky they will even reclassify as a non moving violation.
The key is go to court, it is worth the unpaid day off work.
good luck

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Georgia is having an initiative called H.E.A.T. Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic. I drive over 300 miles a day here and the only ones I've seen them stop are salesmen and military base employees, (most of those are women in Expeditions). In other words they are profiling the speeders who can pay and won't cause trouble. I don't condone speeding but this is a travisshamockery of the law!!