If you’re a commercial truck driver, a clean driving record is essential to your ability to earn a living. LegalShield’s Commercial Drivers Legal Plan (CDLP) covers you and your spouse for a variety of legal issues critical to maintaining your career. All services are delivered by a law firm division that has focused on legal issues for commercial drivers for over 30 years.
If you are an employee of a trucking company, your employer’s insurance coverage is focused mostly on protecting their business, not you as an individual.
Driving safely is Plan A. Having a LegalShield membership to help keep your record clean is Plan B.
Here’s a quick video overview of some of the benefits.
Through LegalShield’s CDLP, you can have coverage for:
Moving Violations
Commercial drivers know how important it is to maintain a driving record free of points and violations. The most popular part of the CDLP is the moving violations defense benefit.
As a LegalShield member, you will have access to local lawyers that will represent you in court should you or your spouse be cited for a non-criminal moving violation. Plan benefits cover moving violations in any licensed commercial or personal motor vehicle. Also, there are no upfront or surprise lawyer fees for this robust representation benefit.
If you’ve never had the help of a lawyer when dealing with traffic tickets and moving violations, you may be surprised at the success they can have compared to handling the situation yourself.
Keep points low and your record clean with a CDLP from LegalShield.
DOT and Non-Moving Violations
Our CDLP provides robust defense services for the following Department of Transportation (DOT) and non-moving violations.
- Logbook
- Overlength
- Overweight
- Overheight
- Overwidth
- No Medical Card
- No Motor Carrier Authority
- Load Spillage
- Radar Detector
- Hazardous Material
- Expired Inspection Sticker
- Equipment Violations
- No Placard
- No Insurance
- Permit Violations
Licensing and Loss of Driving Privileges
If you’re not licensed to drive, you can’t earn a living. While serious, most licensing issues can be resolved rather quickly when you’re working with an experienced lawyer. Our members get a generous 2.5 hours of lawyer time to help with the following licensing situations.
- When legal assistance is needed to reinstate or maintain your driver’s license due to job-related matters.
- When legal assistance is needed to reinstate or maintain your driver’s license due to medical reasons.
- When your driver’s license is denied, cancelled, suspended or revoked by the Department of Public Safety or the Department of Motor Vehicles and a right to appeal is provided by statute.
Tragic Accidents
If they’ve not been in one, most commercial drivers have at least thought about getting into a serious accident involving other vehicles. If you or your spouse is charged with a criminal act because of a traffic accident, a CDLP lawyer will defend you in court. This important plan benefit covers the following charges, whether they stem from an accident in a work or personal motor vehicle.
- Manslaughter
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- Vehicular Homicide
- Negligent Homicide
We hope you never have to use this part of your plan. But, if you do, you’ll be glad you made the smart move to proactively protect yourself.
And more!
Contact me to get your protection in place. I can be reached at 803-622-9942 or cathynel71@gmail.com.