Got my first speeding-ticket need help

I was driving in Arlington TX when some cop on his motor bike pulls me over and tells me I was speeding. Well telling him that it was my first time... he takes my information and hands me a $178 ticket.

This is my first time and I need help.

a) can I get it off my record with no points

b) Will they lower my fee if I tell them im taking DD

c) should I take it online?

d) are there any other hidden fees I need to pay ( like court fees etc)

Any help would be great!  

dude just pay the ticket...chances are that the court fees are probably gonna be more if you fight it.  

I cannot say whether he has something that is fightable because I was not there but I can tell you that my daughter got a "bogus" ticket a few years ago claiming she was speeding when she was not and I fought it without a lawyer and got it thrown out. She had been "clocked" with radar by a cop that raced up behind her and clocked her while he was racing up and radar was confused. I know how radar actually works from my R&D years and was able to burst their bubble.  It was kinda funny in that rather than having a trail of record exposing the flaws in radar and drawing question to other tickets they elected to throw the matter out.  

As an ex-police officer I have a bit of insight in this matter.  If it truly is your first offense, you can probably request from the officer or the courts to have the ticket differed.  Basically when that happens you are on "Probation" for a year, if you get stopped or get any type of citation, you pay the maximum fine ($178) and the new one.  If you don't have anything happen, the ticket is wiped clean from your record and you still have all your points.  I did that many times for first time offenders.  

And it might help to tell them about your DD class.

Hope that helps you!  I was and am always looking out for my fourwheeling brethren.
Matt Klouzek  

They whole radar ticket thing is very flawed in concept because it is error prone, especially in a moving clock (where radar unit is traveling too) because it is not a scanning radar that can actually ID and track targets in azimuth to confirm target bearing and speed and when radar unit is moving it guesses its speed based on return data from objects in its field along side road but since again is is not a scanning radar it cannot ID and track reference targets or their azimuth relative to moving radar unit to determine its speed. The result is that radar unit thinks it is traveling slower than it is and makes approaching car appear to being going faster than it is. (it is all in the math and error is usually about 10 to 15% which means if it says you are doing 75, you may well have been doing 65 to 68 MPH) Police and courts do not like to talk about this though and will drop it when faced with it as I found out when I pushed it. The only time that a car based radar unit has a reasonable good chance of being pretty accurate is when it is stationary. They could eliminate a lot of error when moving by tying it into a GPS for a true speed reference (GPS is far more accurate than traffic radar and bases speed data on several satellites) but then this would reduce ticket potential and revenues because it would result in less speeders being found on moving clocks. IF I ever get stopped myself with a radar clock I am going to have a field day exposing it in court if they try to press it. Radar tickets continue because the average Joe does not know how flawed they can be or how to expose these flaws.