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03-02-2012 | 06:21 PM

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I've been clean for the past 4+ years on speeding tickets and all of the sudden - 2 tickets within 2 weeks. It was my bad (one I was late for a flight and the other was a country road). Anyway, do you think that will hurt my chances in an interview? Will the airlines see that the two were just hiccups in a good driving record? Since 2006, I've only gotten 3 speeding tickets.

03-03-2012 | 09:03 AM

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How many speeding tickets do you have throughout your driving record? How old are you? Getting two tickets in two weeks is not good. In 6 years, you have 3 speeding tickets. Some recruiters see this as a pattern. You WILL be asked about your driving record. Do you have any other driving violations (stop sign, traffic accidents)?

03-03-2012 | 09:42 AM

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That's starting to push the boundaries of what they will accept without questions. Be prepared to discuss at the interview.

03-03-2012 | 12:19 PM

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I had two speeding tickets in two weeks back a few years ago and wasn't even questioned about them in my interviews at all. Those were my only two tickets though. I still don't think you'll have a problem as long as you come up with a good way to explain it if you're asked.

03-04-2012 | 05:29 PM

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I think I have had 5 speeding tickets in my life. 2001, 2005, 2008, and these past two ones. I'm 34 and other than that, a clean record. I'm going to fight the last one since I was going with the flow of traffic (I was still speeding though)... hopefully I can knock it off my record.

03-04-2012 | 05:57 PM

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Combined with the recent two-in-one-week, that's too many. In the current climate, this is not good. Try to get rid of both if you can (traffic school, pay a lawyer to go to court,whatever).

03-10-2012 | 09:19 PM

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Combined with the recent two-in-one-week, that's too many. In the current climate, this is not good. Try to get rid of both if you can (traffic school, pay a lawyer to go to court,whatever).

Don't traffic tickets go off of your record after X number of years? Is there any source, even the national driving record, that will show every ticket you've ever had? I had a whole slew of tickets back when I was a teen, of course that was nearly 20 years ago but I hope that doesn't screw me somehow when I finally land the interview at my dream job...