I am in California and was just pulled over for driving on the carpool lane.

These tickets are about $300, so I just want to know what my options are once I get the fine in the mail.

Thanks for any advice.

 

In Canada, we will try to dispute...

If u cannot win, u may still get some discount... lol~

 

How do u get caught doin this? Cop came from behind or wat?

 

I was driving on the carpool lane, I saw the police ahead, so I switched to the correct lane. The police slowed down and once I got ahead of him, he came behind me and turned on his lights.

 

By "dispute", would I just say "I was not on the carpool lane"? or would something like "i had to switch to the carpool lane because I was almost hit by someone changing lanes without looking" be good?

 

Aww man that sucks....good luck to you. I've always wondered how you would get caught doing this, since I myself am a guilty party cuz I do it every so often.

Do you have tint? Since I do I think I would have just kept goin on it, maybe our headrest being so big, would have fooled him.

 

Yea.. I always thought of getting tint as well. I don't have tint.

 

Pay it.

 

I hate you and your kind.

 

Whiskers FTW

 

You understand why its called a "carpool" lane right?

 

Ok its time I ask this $1 million question....What tha hell is FTW. I see that everywhere and have no idea what people r tryin to say?

Someone....anyone....

 

For The Win

 

Ok....I think Im gonna request a ZINE dictionary for the noobs like myself.

Thanks for the translation

 

Jesus Christ! Another damn victim. Pay the $$$ and stay out of the carpool lane unless you have the correct number of people in the car. But with this post I assume you cannot count that high.

 

Why wouldnt you just pay it?

 

time to get one of these:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060725/od_nm/blowupman_dc

 

Pay it, I hate guys that ride solo in the carpool lane. You deserve the ticket and the fine. BTW, they are $371

 

You earned the ticket so just pay it. Don't even try to come up with an excuse for this because it's pretty obvious that the cop saw you cruising in the carpool lane. If you go to court and lie about it, it's only going to make it worse. Pay the ticket and be done with it.

 

Does the carpool lane have a set time for it to be considered carpool? Or is it at all times, even at 2am is it CARPOOL ONLY?

 

In CA, as far as I can recall, the carpool lane is the carpool lane at any time of the day.

 

Doesn't seem like a violation you can fight. He saw you, he ticketed you. Be a man and pay the fine.

 

1. you got ticketed for driving in the carpool lane by yourself. i don't believe there's any leeway on this law.

2. tint on the front windows is illegal in california.

 

you deserve it, pay the ticket

 

i cannot belive that some people have enough time in a day to go and find news like this.

 

FYI, it'll cost you more to try to fight it

 

probably took as much time for you to open up this thread, click his link, then post

 

and btw guys i dont know why everybody is telling him to pay the ticket. i mean its normal for someone to dispute the ticket even if they were guilty. plus its not like a meter ticket for $60. its $300.

 

no way it was gona take the same time. i mean i clicked on it and read the first line i was like WTF is this shit and closed it. someone took there sweet time to look it up and read it throully. anyways i guess when your boared its ok do do that.

 

You’re a dumb ass. Pay the fine you idiot.

 

Because if he fights it, not only will he pay the $371 fine, but he will also then have to pay the court fees. It's a carpool lane ticket, not much to dispute here

 

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although, it was probably easier for him as the link he posted was in a post not to long ago

 

It's simple. He was a dumbass, he got caught, he should deal with it. If you're expecting sympathy because you did something stupid, you picked the wrong group of people to whine to...

 

Back when I was, ahem, younger, "FTW" meant Fuck The World."

 

I noticed that you can drive Solo in carpool lanes only if you drive a Hybrid Vehicle like Prius etc. ? It could be just out in Cali but not everywhere that has carpool lanes?

 

true, but you have to register for a special pass, and I think they finally hit the quota a month or two back (10,000)

 

The other day I was sitting in traffic. There were tons of people cruising by me with no passengers ( btw I hate people who do this because I sit 3+/- hours of traffic round trip a day ).

So we get to an area where the carpool lane ends and theres a huge shoulder lane on the left of the carpool lane, I see over 10 cars lined up getting tickets. There were several CHP cars and they were simply flagging down people who were driving by themselves in the carpool lane.

$371 fine should be raised to an even $500

 

It's real simple.

He played. He pays.

He knew he wasn't supposed to be driving in the car pool lane solo. He knew it was against the law to do so. He still did it.

It's a freaking game. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose.

However, there's never much sympathy for a whiney player who got caught and doesn't want to pay.

Pay the damn ticket already.

 

21 years old and you still can't spell thoroughly/bored correctly. maybe instead of learning about search engines like google and yahoo you should spend a little time on www.dictionary.com before you speak on a public forum.