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Well, after 4 years of a clean commercial record, I stupidly passed a slow moving truck in the left lane in a PA turnpike tunnel today. Hindsight is 20/20 and tells me that slowing down and losing 45 seconds of time was the much better choice, but in the moment, I thought I could get away with passing. I’m fully aware it was stupid and impatience got the best of me... lesson learned.

On DOT inspection report, I received an improper lane change violation and a lane restriction violation. Two citations received also that were ‘dropped’ to regulation of PA turnpike. Citations carry no points against license, but will be on MVR obviously.

My question is: now what? What does this mean? Are those two citations linked to the inspection violations to where they will get dropped if citations do, or are they separate situations now and the inspection violations are there for good? (Well, 3 years).

Current employer didn’t seem super upset, so I think I’m fine here, but overthinking me will just assume I’m fired for a few days lol. But, how seriously will these two violations impact me in the job hunt going forward? Have been OTR for a year and a half now and have recently decided I’m ready to start being home daily again, but not sure what kind of curveball this will be for the job hunt. Obviously a clean record is the best record, but what exactly constitutes a ‘bad’ record? In other words, will these violations put me in the typical driver category in a prospective employer’s eyes or am I now in the high-risk, bad record category?

Appreciate any feedback, and am fully understanding of the inevitable “it’s not hard to read signs”, “learn some patience”, “way to jeopardize your career” comments.