Citation for possession of alcohol while operating a CMV...

So you had a 12 pack of EMPTY bottles/cans??? How could they give you a ticket for possession if there wasn't any beer in the cans???

 

Never mind. I see you still had full ones left. You didn't "Forget" to "Throw them away". You weren't going to throw away full beer bottles. You forgot to HIDE them.

 

A 12 pack in less than a day and a ½ does not point to a problem necessarily. I have drank many 12 packs in a day. Now a 12 pack every single day, that may be a problem. I won't crucify him for having a beer in the truck on a 34 at the truck stop. Many drivers have done it. Many drivers bend many other rules all the time. Where they go wrong is leaving a paper trail.

 

Empty containers I guess. Perception is reality. You know how it is in America, guilty until proven innocent.

 

Get a lawyer ASAP.

So what exactly did you have in your cab? Just unopened cans, empties, or both?

 

Some harsh judgements here. Could or probably has happened to others, just not selected at the time.

Times/situations change.
When I was with J.T. Garrard we had a senior driver (about 55), accident free, not a speeding hand, sort of anticlimax running with him. You got there when you got there, and usually at a reasonable time.
Had two peculiarities; never took bennies. and rolled with a fifth of whiskey embedded in his moving pad/army blanket on the RH seat (day cabs). Actual last name unknown, but was always referred to a "S".
S would leave out and drive, stop to check cattle, eat, restroom, traffic jam, steaming steady. But, when he was feeling sleepy, reach over, thumb out the cork and take a sip.....Plug it up, and roll on. Drive your eyes out and never seemed to be affected by it.
Now, afore the correctors come on, a couple of things. I can count on one hand the number of bennies I took over 7 years of running harder miles than exist today. Old roads, old type equipment, old law enforcement. I have run with him and had to stop to nap, and S would say.. Think I'll just go on awhile... Some of the boys with large RX bottles and a few lose "Black Molly's" tried him and were found wanting after a few hundred miles...
Do not/did not condone, nor ever try. But I would have put my wife and kids in a cab with S and not have been concerned.

 

You come Chicago, we stock Volvo fridge for you

 

I don’t mean to sound harsh, scratch that yes I do.
How many times over the years has this topic been brought on TTR?
You doubtly violated your(then) company policy regarding alcohol, even unopened alcohol in THEIR TRUCKS.
How did the officer see the partly opened 12 pack? Did the officer climb into the cab, and take a tour?
You were stupid enough to not put it in the fridge?
When I got my CDL decades ago, I basically became a tea-totaler. Absolutely no alcohol unless I was in my own home. No drinks at parties, weddings, etc., unless the venue was attached to a hotel and I had a room.