Younging preparing to be a trucker

Yup like i said .04 or impaired for a dui. And it says driviing a cmv and have a cdl. Becuse you dont need a cdl to drive a cmv in certain situations. You would definatly get fierd from bout 99.9 % of companys but thats moot.


Edit. There is no room for interpitation. It says cmv and thats what it means. In order to be subject to a .04 is a class d vehicle they would have to exspress it directly. This is the gov they dont need excuses to add regs, if it was there you would see it

 

It's an automatic fine under .04 so I guess we are splitting hairs if you are .04 without a cdl they will likely send you on your way just saying either way I'm an o/o but I'm zero tolerance cmv or personal vehicle it's just plain safer

I stand corrected ........kinda

 

Dont get me wrong im a zero no matter what your driving kinda guy, no exscuse for blatent stupidity. I just like to get people with that one, been doing it for years

 

Read the first line though it says if you drive a cmv or hold a cdl

 

No it says "and"

 

The reason is you dont need a cdl to drive cmv farm equip, yada yada. You have to have a cdl in order to be bound by cdl law while driving a cmv

 

Gotcha now I stand fully corrected thanks

 

Sorry i cant stress enough im primaraly being a smart ###. I dont mean to come off as know it all supertrucker.

 

I think the reason most people think the way they do on this (I used to too) is because some officer they knew at some point somewhere was referring to the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (commonly called the CDL Law) which, among other things, says [paraphrased] anything you do in your personal vehicle counts against your CDL. Some officers took that to mean also applying the CMV impairment level to CDL holders in their personal vehicles. This was a big controversy during the phase in of the Nationally Standardized CDL. No matter how you interpret it, it's still up to each individual State and jurisdiction to apply their interpretation and laws and that varies(ed) widely. Some applied it to you in a POV, some didn't. Basically smart drivers just adopted (as you two appear to have done) a personal "one drink no driving for 24 hours" policy and that took the question of limit out of play for them. I think today it would be a very rare case (like you really pi$$ed off the cop) where they tried to write you at the CMV limit in a POV and you could probably beat it with a descent attorney. Still the zero drink and drive policy is the best.

To the OP, this probably arose as good advice for a young man possibly college bound with a CDL. You know, as a caution about college partying and holding a CDL. They both seem to agree, and I'll add my agreement: "One drink and no driving for 24 hours for CDL holders" is the best policy. Watch out for "open container" too. While there's no big controversy about it; every company will run an initial and annual MVR on you and most all of them will have a problem with an "open container" ticket, even in a POV, too. Plus if your driving and your friend has some weed (in the states where it's not legal.) and you get pulled, cop finds it and your friend doesn't own up to it being his: it's yours and you get the possession charge. Companies will have a big problem with that too.

I think this is all just friendly advice that what may seem like kinda not a real big deal becomes a huge deal if you have a CDL.