This ticket for 19 mph over may affect your commercial driver's license (CDL) depending upon your full driving record. As you are likely aware there is the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 that established minimum national standards which States must meet when licensing CMV drivers.
This Act does not require drivers to obtain a separate Federal license; it merely required States to upgrade their existing testing and licensing programs, if necessary, to conform with the Federal minimum standards. The CDL program places requirements on the CMV driver, the employing motor carrier and the States.
Speeding 15 mph or more in a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) is considered to be speeding excessively and thus a serious offense. If convicted of two Serious Traffic violations in a CMV within any three-year period, your CDL will be disqualified for 60 days.
Your CDL will be disqualified for 120 days if convicted of three or more Serious Traffic violations in a CMV within any three-year period. Additionally, if convicted of a Serious Traffic violation in a private passenger vehicle and your private passenger vehicle driving privileges are suspended as a result thereof, your CDL may also be disqualified accordingly.
So it appears how much this speeding violation will affect you depends upon if you have previous offenses that are considered to be serious offenses on your motor vehicle record already or not. Remember as a CDL holder you do not have the option of taking a traffic school course to dismiss your ticket. FMCSA rules prohibit a state from offering any diversion on traffic offenses committed by a CDL holder. If a CDL holder is convicted of a traffic violation, the conviction must be recorded on the driving record, and any subsequent suspension against the CDL must occur.
As far as points on your driving record and points you would need to contact your state's Department of Motor Vehicles to see the amount of points this offense will put on your MVR.
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