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Speaker 1
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Did you or someone you know lose your CDL? That is, your Commercial Driver’s License, for alcohol related offenses? This is Christina Williams with Just Criminal Law.
Speaker 2
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And David Mann, legal storytelling specialist. All right, for those people who are in that situation, what is your message today?
Speaker 1
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Well, first of all, if you get two alcohol-related offenses, that second one causes a lifetime disqualification of your CDL. And it really doesn’t matter if one of those is just a DUI where you weren’t in your commercial vehicle; if you just got a DUI in your own personal vehicle, but you got a CDL. Another scenario might be if you get a DUI while you’re in your commercial vehicle, and the legal limit there is .04. So you may be below the legal limit for the regular driver’s license, but with this, the CDL license in the commercial vehicle, the limit is .04. So say, you happen to get a DUI related to that. In that combination, you will lose your CDL for life. Or any other combination to below .04 to above .08. But the point being, you only get two strikes and then you’re out.
Speaker 2
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Hmm. Okay. And that’s for the entire time that you have a CDL, right?
Speaker 1
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Right. There is no cutoff. Your lifetime of having a CDL, if you are really young and you got a DUI, and now you’re almost ready to retire and you get another DUI, that’s going to cause your CDL to be revoked and you’ll be disqualified from getting one.
Speaker 2
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All right. So if someone does not hire you at the time of the arrest and possibly have a reason that they don’t get convicted, and they end up with these two and they lose their CDL, which will impact their income and maybe their family’s livelihood, can they get it back?
Speaker 1
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Well, it is a process. And you can get it back. You have to wait ten years from when you got your DUI or your alcohol-related offense, and your disqualification took place. You have to wait ten years and you have to have completed a state-approved voluntary treatment program. So those two things and if you’ve in fact done those, then we can help you petition to get your CDL back.
Speaker 1
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So if someone’s in the situation where they’ve lost their CDL and are very close to the ten year mark, they should call you. And how do they do that?
Speaker 1
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Sure. We’ll include a link in the description where they can call, text or chat with a member of my team, any time, day or night. Here at Just Criminal Law, we know you only get one shot at Justice. So make yours count.
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