Booze in the truck?

...make that a 'shot' of Nyquil and you're OK!!

 

My main concern would be having 'alcohol' on my breath and being woken up by the cops for a 'variety' of reasons---sleeping on a ramp, somebody hits 'YOU!,' and the one time I got paranoid, having to move my rig when parked at my parents house (for the night) on the edge of suburbia (had 2 glasses of wine with spaghetti dinner that mom cooked!). Hi-anxiety til I found a shopping center to park it at!!

 

jamwadmag has a very valid point. The regulations clearly state that no driver shall use alcohol, or have any measured alcohol concentration or detected presence of alcohol while on duty, or operating, or in the physical control of a CMV.

 

Not necesarily. I got a ticket in Arizona several years ago for having beer on my truck. Although the ASP didn't believe my story that it wasn't mine, that it had been left by someone else, I was never given a BAC test because the ASP Officer said it was obvious I hadn't been drinking. I WAS put OOS for 24h, I DID get a ticket for Possession of Alcohol in a CMV (minor infraction) and I DID lose my job (violating Company Policy)
But "OPEN Container" is a different thing altogether. OC in Michigan is 6 points. Truthfully, you CAN be ticketed for having Nyquil or even mouthwash containing alcohol.

 

The only "silly" question is the one that you SHOULD have asked but didn't.

 

Of course if you want to be slick about it.

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