Approved Howard Online Defensive Driving and Insurance Reduction Courses

  • Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) Approved online defensive driving course
  • Howard County Ticket Dismissal and Insurance Reduction
  • $25 – lowest price in the State of Texas
  • Our 6-hour online driver safety course is a fun, interactive and easy way to dismiss a ticket and lower your insurance costs. It is fully approved by the TDLR for Howard County citation dismissal (TDLR Provider # CP021).
  • Once you complete this internet defensive driving course, we will ship your certificate of completion to you by regular US Mail free of charge. If you are in a hurry, you may also select any of our convenient expedited shipping methods through FedEx for an additional charge.
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Howard County Texas Defensive Driving Information

Howard Texas Traffic Violations

Without question, the best way to avoid the problems that come with a traffic ticket is simply to avoid violating the traffic laws.  Unfortunately, that is not always the situation we find ourselves in.  if you are pulled over in Howard Texas for violating a traffic law, you can expect to become the proud recipient of a traffic violation, courtesy of your Howard Texas law enforcement.

The citation you receive will have several pieces of important information on it.  First, it will provide you with a court date.  You will need this date in the event you wish to attend a Texas Education Agency (TEA) approved Howard Texas defensive driving course, dispute the ticket or if your violation is serious enough in nature that you are required to appear in court.  Also, if you are under 18, Texas law will usually require you to appear in court with your parents or legal guardian.

Second, the citation will provide you with contact information for the Howard Texas court handling your traffic violation.  No matter how you plan to handle your citation, you must call the Howard Texas court within ten days of being issued the citation, or risk heavier fines and penalties.  If you fail to call or show up in person to the Howard Texas court for long enough, a bench warrant will be put out for your arrest.  Do not let this happen.  Contact the Howard Texas court stated on your ticket immediately after being issued a citation.

When you contact the Howard Texas court, you will also find out how to pay your citation.  Counties differ within Texas so you should ask the Howard Texas court handling your ticket what payment methods are available and if you are eligible to attend a Howard Texas ticket dismissal course such as GetDefensive.com.

Suspension of Texas Driving Privileges

The points you accumulate through the Texas Driver Responsibility Program add up quickly.  If you incur just six points in three years-- one traffic violation per year-- the Texas Department of Public Safety will suspend your Texas driving privileges.  You can also face suspension if you avoid tallying too many points but are labeled as a "habitual offender."  Howard Texas drivers who incur four violations in two years or 7 in four years are considered habitual offenders by the state of Texas and face suspension of their Texas driving privileges.  If you are a juvenile driver under 18 years of age, your driving privileges can be revoked for just two traffic violations in a single year.  The violations counting toward a habitual offender moniker, just like points accumulation, include all out of state offenses that would have qualified had they been issued in Howard Texas.

The cost of having your driving privileges reinstated can be hefty and will pile on top of the fines for your most recent violation as well as the costs of appearing in court to defend yourself.  It is in your best interest and the best interests of your wallet that you avoid accumulating traffic violations on your Texas driver record.

Howard Texas Defensive Driving Programs

Should you find yourself in any of the precarious situations above, a Howard Texas defensive driving program may be able to help you avoid the unfortunate consequences.  The Texas Education Agency allows Howard Texas drivers to attend a Howard Texas driver safety program, including the Howard Texas online defensive driving courses offered by Getdefensive.com, in order to have up to one traffic violation per year expunged from their Texas Department of Public Safety driving record.  In order to receive this benefit, however, you must first receive permission from the Howard Texas court handling your violation when you call in or appear in court.  This permission is not guaranteed, however, and will likely be based on the cleanliness of your Texas driving record to date, as well as the severity of your most recent violation.  Also, if you have taken ten defensive driving programs and are back for your eleventh, a Howard Texas court may feel that you need a different form of rehabilitation in order to improve your safe driving habits.

However, most often you will be given an opportunity to have the violation removed from your Texas driver record.  If you are given such an opportunity, a Howard Texas internet driver safety or Howard Texas internet driver improvement program will not only remove the violation from your record, but will also eliminate the points that would have attached to your record as a result of your guilty plea or conviction.  These benefits come in addition to the considerable costs you will avoid by not being labeled a habitual offender or having your Texas drivers license temporarily suspended.

Howard Texas Insurance Discounts

A Howard Texas driver has much to gain by keeping a clean driving record through participation in a Howard Texas online driver safety program such as those offered by Getdefensive.com, beyond simply avoiding a suspended license.  Online Howard Texas defensive driving programs teach valuable safe driving techniques and foster defensive driving habits that will help you avoid your next traffic violation.  Additionally, in the event you find yourself incurring a traffic violation in the future, a Howard Texas court is much more likely to offer you a chance to have that violation wiped when your Texas driver record is clean and you have shown yourself to be committed to safe driving by enrolling in a Howard Texas online defensive driving program like Getdefensive.comGetdefensive.com offers many forms of home-study Texas defensive driving courses, including Howard Texas online defensive driving, Howard Texas DVD video defensive driving and Howard Texas streaming video defensive driving which can be viewed on your home computer.

A clean Texas driving record also keep you eligible for up to a 10% insurance reduction.  Insurance providers base the premiums you pay on your Howard Texas driving experience and your history of traffic violation.  Texas law protects you as an insurance owner from having your rates raised each time you pay a traffic ticket.  However, Howard Texas insurance carriers are not entitled to cover you if you show yourself to be a habitually bad driver.  Also, after three citations you insurance carrier is allowed by law to cancel your coverage immediately.  If that happens, it is highly unlikely that your next carrier will offer you a low or moderate price.  Keeping your driving record clean and having the experience of completing a Howard Texas online defensive driving program will help you avoid costly hikes in your insurance coverage.

Howard Texas Mature Driver and Howard Texas Juvenile Driver Insurance Discounts

Howard Texas drivers over the age of 55 and juvenile drivers under the age of 18 have an added incentive to enroll in a Howard Texas online defensive driving program:  insurance discounts.  To promote safe driving, most auto insurers provide additional discounts to both older and younger Texas drivers.  If you are a driver under the age of 18 or a parents of a juvenile driver, or you are a mature driver of the age of 55, contact your auto insurance provider to find out if an online driver safety program will help you secure an insurance reduction even before any accident or traffic violation has occurred.  This active approach may not just result in lower premiums now, but help keep them low in the event of a future traffic citation.

Howard Texas Classroom Driver Safety Schools

Some people prefer learning in a traditional classroom setting to the ease of taking a Howard Texas defensive driving program from the comfort of their own home.  If you would like to participate in a driver safety program to help lower your  insurance costs, to remove a traffic violation from your Texas driving record or because you were ordered to do so by a Howard Texas court, you should ask the Howard Texas court overseeing your citation and they will be happy to provide you with a list of brick and mortar traffic schools  in and around Howard Texas when you call into discuss your citation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I go about paying for taking the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online defensive driving course/online traffic school course?

You can pay with either a credit card on an online check. Please know that payments must be made in advance of your starting the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online defensive driving course/online traffic school course.

How do I get my diploma after I finish GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas online defensive driving class?
After you have passed the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online driver safety or defensive driving course, GetDefensive.com will send your certificate of completion to you via regular U.S. mail.  If you need to receive it quickly, you may opt to have it sent via FedEx.  Unfortunately, GetDefensive.com is not able to send completion certificates via fax or e-mail.
How secure is GetDefensive.com’s website? Is there a danger that my credit card information, etc. could be compromised?

Very secure! GetDefensive.com uses SSL encryption to protect your personal information. When you register to take the Howard Texas online defensive driving class or insurance reduction class, your personal information (credit card number, etc.) is fully-protected.

 

What’s my financial responsibility for taking the Howard Texas online traffic school course or the Howard Texas DVD defensive driving course or the Howard Texas online defensive driving course or the Howard Texas streaming video course?

You may take GetDefensive.com’s Howard Texas online traffic school course or Howard Texas online defensive driving course for $25.00, which is the minimum allowable price under Howard Texas state law.  The price may vary by format and $25.00 is the fee of our online course only.  The fee may be slightly higher if you choose to take the Howard Texas traffic school video course on DVD or the Howard Texas traffic school streaming video course.  Your course registration fee also covers the shipping of your completion certificate via regular U.S. mail.

What's the "modus operandi" for taking GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas defensive driving online course?

Whether you are signing up to take GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas defensive driving online course to have a ticket removed from your record or to save some money on your auto insurance, you will need access to a PC or a computer which has internet access.  The Howard Texas defensive driving course we offer is divided up into chapters.  At the end of each chapter is a short multiple-choice quiz which will help you prepare for the online final exam you will take at the end of the course.  Please know that as you work through the course, you are free to stop and start as often as you need to, and then resume working from wherever you left off. 

After you've completed all of the chapters, you will need to take the Howard Texas online defensive driving course final exam.  Once you have passed it, GetDefensive.com will issue you a Howard Texas certificate of completion.  This certificate will be sent to the address you provided at the time you registered to take the course via the shipping method you elected at the time of registration.

If I take GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas online defensive driving course or driver safety course, would my insurance company give me a break on my auto insurance?
Usually the answer is yes.  Each insurance company has their own set of rules in regards to discounts, and we always recommends that you first check with your Howard Texas insurance agent to see if you are eligible for a discount before taking GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas defensive driving online course or driver safety online course.  However, we can tell you that many insurance carriers all over Howard Texas offer up to a 10% discount on auto insurance to policyholders who successfully complete a Texas Education Agency-approved Howard Texas defensive driving course.  GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas defensive driving/driver safety/insurance reduction online course is certified by the T.E.A. and our customers who take our course for ticket dismissal actually receive an additional copy of their completion certificate upon passing to give to their Howard Texas insurance agent.
I plan to take the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas defensive driving class online over the course of several days or several evenings. Will I be able to take each section on different computers?

When you take GetDefensive.com’s Howard Texas defensive driving class online, you are free to work through the class on as many different computers as you wish. However, you will need to make sure that every computer you use has the necessary flash and browser requirements installed. GetDefensive.com will automatically check any computer on which you log in to make sure it has the needed software to operate correctly.

The GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online defensive driving class looks like it will take forever! Could I do a portion of the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online defensive driving class one day, a portion of it the next day, another portion of it the next day, etc. until I’m finished with it?

You are not mandated to take the entire GetDefensive.com Howard Texas  online defensive driving class in one fell swoop.  Unlike in a classroom setting, GetDefensive.com will allow you to stop and start as often as you need to while you work through the Howard Texas online defensive driving class.

I’ll be done with the Howard Texas driver improvement course or the Howard Texas video traffic school course or the Howard Texas online defensive driving course or the Howard Texas streaming video course soon. What do I need to do to get my certificate so I can get my ticket dismissed?

Upon your completion of the Howard Texas driver improvement course or the Howard Texas video traffic school course or the Howard Texas online defensive driving course or the Howard Texas streaming video course, GetDefensive.com will send your certificate of completion to your home or business address via regular U.S. mail.

How can someone with a reading disability be able to take the website? Howard Texas online defensive driving/driver safety course?

We at GetDefensive.com do consider the needs of our customers who have reading disabilities, visual impairments, or for whatever reason have trouble reading large amounts of text. GetDefensive.com offers an ADA-compliant read-along option in which a recorded narrator reads the text out loud for you as you follow along with the online text. It should be noted, however, that GetDefensive.com’s online defensive driving/driver safety/ticket dismissal course includes multi-media features such as interactive videos, graphics, and animations to break the monotony of text-reading, communicate concepts better, and improve the overall quality of the course.

Is GetDefensive.com’s defensive driving course recognized by Howard Texas as a legitimate ticket dismissal or defensive driver course?  I really don’t have time to waste, I need to get my ticket thrown out as quickly as possible.

Absolutely! GetDefensive.com’s online defensive driving course is fully-accredited in Howard Texas. Every traffic court in Howard Texas will accept the completion of certificate you will receive from GetDefensive.com upon your successful completion of GetDefensive.com’s online defensive driving course.

I had a ticket dismissed last year by taking a Howard Texas defensive driving class. I got another ticket recently, and want to know if it’s okay for me to take GetDefensive.com’s Howard Texas defensive driving class to get this one dismissed also. It’s been less than twelve (12) months, but we’re in a new calendar year.

The law in Howard Texas only allows one (1) ticket dismissal every twelve (12) months, irrespective if the 12 month period extends into two (2) calendar years. Therefore, your most recent ticket would not be eligible for dismissal. Please contact your local Howard Texas traffic court for more information regarding your eligibility for taking GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas online defensive driving course.

What purpose do the quizzes which are given throughout the Howard Texas online defensive driving class serve?
The quizzes given at the end of each chapter/section are designed to help prepare you for the final exam which you will take at the end of the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas online defensive driving/driver safety/insurance reduction course.
Is there any way I can take the Howard Texas defensive driving course or traffic school course at home on my computer and still get the same points I would if I were to take the Howard Texas defensive driving course or traffic school course in a classroom?

You bet! GetDefensive.com offers the Howard Texas traffic school course online so you can take the course at your convenience in the comfort of your own home (provided you have a computer with internet access)!

Will the Howard Texas court dismiss all of my tickets if I pass your Howard Texas online defensive driving/driver safety course?
No.  The Texas Education Agency (T.E.A.) only allows defendants to have one (1) ticket stricken off their record every 12 months by taking a T.E.A.-approved defensive driving course or driver safety course.  If you took a defensive driving course less than 12 months ago or can't remember exactly when you last took defensive driving, you should either order a copy of your Texas Driver Record or check with the Howard Texas court to see if you are eligible to have a ticket dismissed at this time.  If you are eligible, you may take GetDefensive.com's Howard Texas defensive driving online course and have one (1) ticket dismissed upon your successful completion of the course, however you will be unable to have any more than one (1) ticket thrown out.
If I sign up to take the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas defensive driving course/driver safety course, what will I need to do to prove to your staff that I am who I am?

Texas law requires GetDefensive.com to verify your identity when you take our Howard Texas online defensive driving course in one(1) of two(2) ways: by pulling questions from your driver record/driver history on file with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) as well as from your vehicle registration information on file with the Texas Department of Transportation (DOT).

If you do not have both a driver record and a vehicle registered with the State of Texas, you will need to provide a signed and notarized Statement of Assurance and you will be required to accurately respond to personal questions throughout the GetDefensive.com Howard Texas defensive driving online course.

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