Timmy Tucker
Well-Known Member
It’s not great. I think I have roughly 6-7 speeding tickets, most of them in my late teens, early 20s (I’m 45 now). The upside is that my last speeding ticket was in ‘07-‘08, I’ve changed my driving habits, and have been very careful not to get any speeding tickets since. The problem is that I don’t remember exactly how many I’ve received at this point, and I have no way to find out.
Here’s my first dilemma. Driving records only go back 10 years in both states I’ve held a license in (TN and VA). My last ticket was 13-14 years ago, so I have no way getting info on the old tickets.
Dilemma #2… One of my early tickets (circa 2000-2001) was a reckless driving ticket for speeding. Virginia currently issues a misdemeanor charge for a reckless conviction, but I don’t believe that was the case 20 years ago when I got mine. I can pull my criminal background with VSP, but again, it only goes back 10 years or so. So I have no way of knowing if that left a misdemeanor charge on my record. The other problem is that it’s been so long, I don’t even remember what county it was in (I had a traveling job at the time, and was in a different city every day), so I can’t search county-specific records either.
I want to be 100% upfront about everything with potential employers, but I’m not really even sure how to approach this stuff without having accurate records. Any thoughts?
Here’s my first dilemma. Driving records only go back 10 years in both states I’ve held a license in (TN and VA). My last ticket was 13-14 years ago, so I have no way getting info on the old tickets.
Dilemma #2… One of my early tickets (circa 2000-2001) was a reckless driving ticket for speeding. Virginia currently issues a misdemeanor charge for a reckless conviction, but I don’t believe that was the case 20 years ago when I got mine. I can pull my criminal background with VSP, but again, it only goes back 10 years or so. So I have no way of knowing if that left a misdemeanor charge on my record. The other problem is that it’s been so long, I don’t even remember what county it was in (I had a traveling job at the time, and was in a different city every day), so I can’t search county-specific records either.
I want to be 100% upfront about everything with potential employers, but I’m not really even sure how to approach this stuff without having accurate records. Any thoughts?