I don't understand why people think they can do this

I really wonder what makes people think they can drive one of these things drunk. I find it disturbing. This guy worked for my company for a long time, probably a decade. Guy developed an alcohol problem. He went to a farm extremely drunk and hit a building. The farmer takes the keys, he wasn't going to be leaving in that tractor trailer. Farmer calls my boss, come and get this guy. My boss picked up the driver, he gets into his pickup and gets nailed on the way home. My boss was going to allow him to drive UNTIL he got convicted, I cant blame my boss he's short drivers. I will blame the system, if you blow a .19 and get charged with aggravated DWI your license should be suspended.

The guy worked 1 day, had a day off and when he was supposed to report to work friday he calls in.... too drunk to drive. My boss fires him. good.

This guy earned his stripes. Driving a CMV and alcohol do not mix. I'm glad the farmer took the keys, he protected public safety from a menace. I'm glad the guy got caught.

Please if you are falling down this rabit hole, take a leave of absence.... clean up... and then go back to work.

 

This guy will loose everything. His job, His house, his pickup truck, his marriage. Is it worth it?

 

Pickup milk. I'm a milk truck driver, I pull a tanker and load out of bulk milk tanks. Class A day cab and tanker. Sometimes I deliver to the plant, sometimes drop n hook in the yard, and a transport driver takes the load to a plant

 

He blew a .19 a couple hours later in this personal pickup. One of my coworkers suspects he might have been as bad as .3 when he was in the truck hours before.

 

Not only drunk on the job, drinking while driving most likely. The farmer could have called the cops on him

 

The thing is I can tell you as a milk hauler we develop working relationships with our farmers they become friends allot of times. The farmer probably wanted to protect public safety but didnt want to completely throw him under the bus

 

I see my farmers everyday and enjoy talking with them

 

One of my farmers asked me about it, said he heard from a couple of the farmers the guy picked up before he had the keys taken away and he didn't appear intoxicated. I said unbelievable, he must have been drinking on duty. Either while he was driving OR while he was loading milk and no one watching him. If your loading 45k milk at a farm, that takes close to an hour. Plenty of time to get ####ed. My first trailer for example 45k and first farm and about 25k at the 2nd farm makes a 70k load