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#Post#: 98788--------------------------------------------------
Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good solicitor?
DIR By: BadDriveroo
Date: November 19, 2025, 7:34 am
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Hi all,
Already carrying 3 points - 70mph on a dual carriageway (hadn't
realised my new van is Commercial Vehicle - not Car Derived).
Received NIP for 60mph on a single carriageway (commercial
vehicle). Then stopped same day for having my phone in my hand
by a passing patrol car, not using it but that's irrelevant.
Obviously need to fight a ban - how do people find a good
solicitor? I'm in East Yorkshire.
#Post#: 98791--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: Southpaw82
Date: November 19, 2025, 7:57 am
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--- Quote from: BadDriveroo link ---
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> Then stopped same day for having my phone in my hand by a
passing patrol car, not using it but that's irrelevant.
>
--- End Quote ---
I’m pretty sure it’s not irrelevant…
#Post#: 98792--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: The Slithy Tove
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:00 am
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Could you be eligible for a speed awareness course for the
speeding?
#Post#: 98793--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: Reentrant
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:02 am
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You could try Andrew Thompson
HTML http://www.counsel.direct
HTML http://www.counsel.direct
(He posts as AGTLAW on Pistonheads and
is based in Leeds)
#Post#: 98794--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: BadDriveroo
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:03 am
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--- Quote from: The Slithy Tove link ---
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> Could you be eligible for a speed awareness course for the
speeding?
>
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Unfortunately not - cannot be offered if you've had a speeding
offence within the preceding 3 years.
Currently sitting on 2 CFPO's dated the same day - 3 points and
6 points. The three I have expire July 26.
#Post#: 98795--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: andy_foster
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:08 am
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--- Quote from: BadDriveroo link ---
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> Already carrying 3 points - 70mph on a dual carriageway
(hadn't realised my new van is Commercial Vehicle - not Car
Derived).
>
> Received NIP for 60mph on a single carriageway (commercial
vehicle).
--- End Quote ---
There are 2 true things that most people learn from a Speed
Awareness Course, one of which would have probably prevented
them from needing to take such a course - commercial vehicles
are subject to lower default limits on ordinary NSL dual and
single carriageways, and an ordinary road with street lights and
no speed limit signs is a 30mph limit. Identifying whether a van
is a CDV or not is probably beyond the script.
--- Quote ---
>
> Then stopped same day for having my phone in my hand by a
passing patrol car, not using it but that's irrelevant.
--- End Quote ---
Thankyou for correcting our misunderstanding.
--- Quote ---
> Obviously need to fight a ban - how do people find a good
solicitor? I'm in East Yorkshire.
>
--- End Quote ---
No idea. Most people come here for advice on how to proceed
without professional legal representation. I'm assuming that
googling "motoring lawyer East Yorkshire" wasn't much help?
#Post#: 98798--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: BadDriveroo
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:26 am
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--- Quote from: andy_foster link ---
>
> There are 2 true things that most people learn from a Speed
Awareness Course, one of which would have probably prevented
them from needing to take such a course - commercial vehicles
are subject to lower default limits on ordinary NSL dual and
single carriageways, and an ordinary road with street lights and
no speed limit signs is a 30mph limit. Identifying whether a van
is a CDV or not is probably beyond the script.
>
>
--- End Quote ---
My only excuse to the speed offences is that after 32 years
driving - the last 15 years in CDV's - learning your new van is
actually commercial is one thing, remembering to always maintain
your speed separately to everyone else is another. Both my
existing and my new speeding offences are exactly on the speed
limit for a CDV.
I mention the circumstances of the phone thing simply because
I'm as disappointed in seeing people using their phone as anyone
else.
Google gives me results, but knowing a good result from a poor
one is beyond google. Going solo seems a bit like a wasted
opportunity against a ban that will end my business.
#Post#: 98801--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: FuzzyDuck
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:40 am
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--- Quote from: BadDriveroo link ---
>
> Unfortunately not - cannot be offered if you've had a speeding
offence within the preceding 3 years.
>
--- End Quote ---
Not true. As long as a speed awareness course wasn't done in the
previous 3 years, you can have as many speeding offences as you
like.
#Post#: 98802--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: BadDriveroo
Date: November 19, 2025, 8:42 am
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--- Quote from: FuzzyDuck link ---
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> [quote author=BadDriveroo link=topic=8834.msg98794#msg98794
date=1763560994]
> Unfortunately not - cannot be offered if you've had a speeding
offence within the preceding 3 years.
>
--- End Quote ---
Not true. As long as a speed awareness course wasn't done in the
previous 3 years, you can have as many speeding offences as you
like.
[/quote]
Okay, well, true or not - my offers are 3 points and 6 points
respectively.
#Post#: 98808--------------------------------------------------
Re: Expecting a ban on Totting Up - How to find a good
solicitor?
DIR By: Southpaw82
Date: November 19, 2025, 9:00 am
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And are you actually guilty of those offences?
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