Click the link I provided. It takes you to the FMCSA website. It is the FMCSA's official guidance where 392.5 is concerned, because 392.5 deals specifically with ON DUTY. The guidance addresses how the regulation should be interpreted when a driver is NOT on duty, such as when using a CMV for personal use. Again, this info is right on the FMCSA's website in the guidance section for 392.5. In other words, the information I posted is correct, as it comes straight from the FMCSA.
If you say so I will take your word for it. I myself would never have any alcohol in a Truck with me. Not a very good idea. In my opinion if you require frequently consuming alcohol when your alone, and not socially with other people, you have a problem and should find another line of work. Sooner or later your going to screw up and your life and probably someone else's too.
Then you have no business being behind the steering wheel of a Truck. Does that answer your question or do you want me to elaborate more on this subject so you can understand me?
I said it has alcohol content,just look at a bottle of NyQuil for reference. Medications with even trace amounts of alcohol can get a driver in trouble
I guess no more stops at the duty-free store. They don't sell Zubrowka in the U.S. I didn't know you couldn't even have it in your side box. And yes, I waited until I got home to drink it.
As a general rule, I don't either. However, LEGALLY if I'm on my way home empty on a Friday night after delivering my last load (and I've been released from duty) and I want to stop at the grocery store to pick up a few things (as opposed to driving all of the way home, turning around, and heading back to town in the pickup), I can pick up a 6-pack with my other groceries. Now I've never actually done it, because just the appearance of impropriety involved in somebody seeing you do that is just something that isn't going to shine a very positive light on the industry in general or the company more specifically (which is why many companies have policies prohibiting such a thing even though it is allowed under the regs). Just because it is LEGAL doesn't mean you should do it...and just because a company prohibits it in their trucks or for anyone running under their authority doesn't mean it is illegal.
See. This is the crap we get with these truck driving mills. A bunch of wannabe DOT officers trying to interpret laws because some mega carrier compliance lady said it was so. Stevens Transport tried to tell me that it was illegal to have NyQuil in the truck due to the alcohol content. I haven't had a problem carrying it in the past 5 years. You know why? Because I don't drink the NyQuil before I start driving. I take it before I go to sleep when I am sick. And I see no issue with carrying beer in your sleeper as long as it is out of reach while you're driving. Just because somebody wants to have a beer or 2 to unwind after a 14 hour day doesn't make them an alcoholic. Common sense folks.
