Clean Driving Record
Your driving record is usually kept by the DMV for roughly 10 years, and varies from state to state. You need to clean your driving record if you were charged with a DUI in the past.
In every day life your driving record is becoming more and more important concerning employment background checks, and qualification for certain activities like entering Canada or adopting a child, and so on... The irony is that your driving record became so heavily looked at carefully while at the same time its becoming easier than ever to be wrongfully charged with a violation. Once you are charged its nearly impossible to get the department of motor vehicle to clean your driving record even if the courts dismiss the case and/or you are proven innocent.
Driving records may be tainted by having one beer with dinner and driving around the block to go home from your neighbor's house. Just ask the thousands of Americans that get wrongfully accused of this everyday. The extreme laws in effect today having to do with such low BAC's (chemical test) like 0.08 is a political move by your state to produce revenue.
Our federal government gives more money to each state that enacts the 0.08 BAC law, while the ones that keep the 0.10 BAC law don't get the extra money. Statistics have proven that drivers that have a BAC of 0.08 or below are safer than a driver traveling at 15 MPH over the posted speed limit. A driving record containing a speeding violation is not even considered "bad." Did you know that the organization called MADD lobbied to congress to have the term "alcohol related incident" defined as anyone having any measurable amount of alcohol in their system involved in the DUI accident.
This means that someone could be asleep in their parked car with a measurable amount of alcohol and a sober driver could hit them in a parking lot and that accident is considered alcohol related although the person driving and the cause of the accident was stone cold sober. Even with the tainting of statistics like that and by other means the rate of occurrence of alcohol related fatalities of drivers with BAC's of 0.08 or lower has steadily fallen since 1996.
Your driving record is something to do research on especially if you have been convicted of a DUI offense which is cleaned. It is possible to get a new start if you take the right steps. The DUI attorneys have put together a self help manual to explain the steps you need to take and what you have to do to clean your driving record.
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