Policy on Smoking in the Cab?

Are there any companies that ban smoking in the cab during duty?

I am a non-smoker and would go nutty if I had to team drive with a chain smoker. I think this could be managed without getting violent, but if the smoker insisted on smoking when he felt like it, that would be a bad scene.

 

In most cases they will not team a non-smoker with a smoker. Companies want teams that can get along and share some of the same personality traits. You won't always get along but they shouldn't put you with a smoker.

 

I am a courtesy smoker you might say. If I am traveling with others I will ask first. If they do not smoke and wish I do not, I do not. If I was teamed up with a driver who did not smoke, I would be looking for another team mate though. Stopping to have a smoke would hurt us both.

 

Maybe in California or Florida (and other states) where one cannot smoke Cigarettes, Cigars or Pipes in Buildings other than Abodes.
In California for instance, DOT deems that ones Truck cab is an office and that smoking in office buildings is illegal, so go figure.

I'm a smoker and were I nuts enuf to wanna team drive, then the other best be a smoker or too bad.
As stated in another post; "A decent company will not pair up a smoker and a non-smoker".
There are decent companies about as well as ignorant company personell.
It's not the company that is bad, it is the people that are of the company that makes it appear bad.

NO ONE can say one cannot smoke in ones truck unless hauling flammable hz/mt like fuels otherwise one can freely smoke as much as one likes when driving.
I have yet to drive a "no smoking in this" truck, and if/when I ever see one, I'll merely laugh and light up.

 

this news item i just found: http://www.etrucker.com/apps/news/article.asp?id=56816

 

and yet one more reason for me to despise Ohio. I used to love hanging out in a lil pub just east of the T/A in Hebron. I won't be going there now.

 

Policy on smoking in the cab? Ask the cab driver before you get in.....

 

This may be a stupid question, but i will ask anyway. you have to log acording to the time standards of your home right...... So technically whuld you not have have obide only your state laws? I know it would not work but it would be interesting if somebody faught it.