This statement about being held to a .04 BAC no matter what you're driving has been going on for awhile. Every state I have looked at the laws it always says while operating a commercial vehicle. I just looked at Ohio and it says the same thing, while operating a CMV. So unless it's spelled out in the state laws you should be held to the same limit as anyone else driving a car-.08. If you have a state that does say any vehicle your driving please let me know. As far as the cop bringing that to court I think I would have said a professional should know the laws and get off his high horse.
2 beers, on day off, in personal car = fired
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by 4wheelJoshua, Aug 4, 2011.
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I don't know if the officer was at court at all. Thank you for clarifying that it applies only when driving a CMV, that must have been how he got out of it all. I do know it was indeed only 2 beers because his father in law was one of the letters to the editor in the paper disgusted with what the guy was being dragged through.
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I am not a drinker, but to think I couldn't even have a beer with pizza on home time scared me a bit. Felt like freedoms being trampled on for a second. -
Police misinterpret laws all the time. I got a ticket once when I logged being off duty all day on a run with an extra day because I didn't fill out an inspection that day. He said the law is that you must fill out a PTI every day you are on the truck even if it does not move.
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You've got to cut it out 4 hours before coming on duty. That link also lays out why it's basically shoot-yer-foot territory to have personal alcohol in the truck (even though basically every company out there is going to forbid this anyway). -
.08 is only the federal limit. While many states go with that, there are some with lower limits.
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Looks as though everybody's .08 for now. I can't verify the age of the chart, though.
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He couldn't have got a DUI/DWI without being over legal limit regardless of license type, he gambled and lost...Sucks...
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As a CDL holder you have to wait 24 hours after drinking to get into a CMV, not sure on the private vehicle law, but if he was arrested for DUI and convicted, he most likely lost his CDL for a year, company can not let him deive
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