A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets

by James M. Eagen

Book Overview

Regardless of your record as a driver, everyone speeds sometimes. You are on the open road, no one around for miles, and so you step on the gas pedal. Then you experience a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach -- and in your wallet -- when you see a flashing red light in the rearview mirror. Now you can ease on down the road without paying the high price of traffic tickets, inflated insurance premiums and expensive lawyer's fees. Former New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380807580
• ISBN13: 9780380807581
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A worthy book

This was written by a state trooper, and he offers a lot of things to tell an officer on why you were speeding. What better advice than from a retired state trooper? He gives plenty of lines to use that you could never think of on your own. He also gives examples from his own experiences out there where he let the driver go. I especially liked this because he tells you the truth on what will and will not work. This is definitely worth buying.

This book is a masterpiece....

Trooper Eagan provides wonderful insight into the world of being a police officer working on traffic enforcement. As a consequence, he gives very practical and detailed techniques that will enable one to avoid many types of tickets. That said, I was also filled with respect for what these officers do, so I cannot say enough about the many benefits of this book. This is certainly the best "self-help" book that I have ever read.

Originally a zero star till I read the book.

Working in the City of Los Angeles as a police officer, I've heard every cock and bull story so people would avoid a ticket. I mean, It's not like I cite people on a regular basis. I am not the CHP. The scary thing about the book was Officer Neckvein. Yes, the same people Sgt. James Eagan wrote about, I see and deal with on a daily basis. I enjoyed this book because it not only helps the speeder in avoiding that God-forbidding ticket, but assures me that the person will not shoot me, stab me, run me over or act like a jerk. But speaking about experience, I pulled over a woman for speeding. I was on the surface street as she was going five miles over the speed limit. I wanted to tell her to slow down. It was at night and I lit up her car. She then turned on the dome lights, raised her right arm, waved left and right to say she knew that I was behind her, lowered her windows, turned on her right turn indicater and stopped under a well-lighted area. I know she had to have read the book. I did the usual, asked for her Cal-op, reg and insurance. She looked into my eyes, smiled and said sure officer. She did everything to the book. I then chk'd her, she came clear and told her that I wasn't going to cite her but warned her to slow down. She never said sir, I asked what she did and managed to segue A speeders Guide to Avoiding Ticket was a good book, huh? She said yeah and stuttered. I laughed and said thank you for taking time and reading the book. Not only did she avoid a ticket, I also left home smiling. Sgt. Eagan's book is a great book. Maybe, maybe after you read this book, maybe you'll slow down. I mean, I don't speed because this book made me paranoid about getting a ticket. This book will make you paranoid too. Read it and learn.

Excellent

After reading this book I have yet to pay out to the mobile revenue collectors. NO moving violations at all. Much more useful than my radar detector and CB. Furthermore, it is actually a very funny book to read. It's full of amusing anectdotes and useful tips. I highly recommend it to any driver, whether or not you consider yourself a "speeder."

DO YOU SPEED?. . . THEN YOU NEED THIS BOOK!!!!

Who could possibly know more about speeding tickets than a retired New York State Trooper? The author, James M. Eagan, spent the last 20 years writing speeding tickets, only because he was forced to. He even says so in his book. He was fed up with being told to go write speeding tickets just to raise revenue for the state of New York, so he decided to write this book. "I'm not encouraging people to speed. I'm only helping them do, what they are already doing more safely," says Eagan in a TV interview about his book. Eagan breaks the police officer's code of silence and he reveals it all in this book. YES VIRGINIA, there IS a QUOTA for speeding tickets! This book is full of useful tips and strategies on talking your way out of a ticket, as well as speeding without attracting attention to yourself. If you speed, and let's face it who doesn't?. . . THEN YOU NEED THIS BOOK!! Order "A Speeder's Guide to Avoiding Tickets," today and you'll be well on your way to speeding WITHOUT receiving TICKETS!