Is it legal to carry a bottle of alcohol on the truck in a toolbox?

Excellent advice. Several new drivers on this forum had job interviews cut short and told to leave and that's because they talked too much.

 

Being OTR means I cross state lines, which technically traveling across state lines with alcohol could be illegal and the reason for it being in my toolbox is because obviously if it’s in my toolbox, I don’t have intentions of opening it, and technically, it’s not in my truck. It’s basically till I get home because they sell certain beer in certain states that they don’t have where I live.

 

Well, you can call it what you want but I’m just looking for legal answers so I know for my own knowledge what I can and cannot do. I’m sorry if that makes me look bad because I wanna know my laws I’m a new driver I don’t know all the laws.

 

Just be careful what you reveal during a job interview. Doesn't make you look bad by asking questions on this forum.

 

What brand beer do you like?

 

I think he's already got a job. Now just trying to figure out how to do it.
Well, he came to the right place anyway.

 

As my grandfather once said 40+ years ago when he was alive, “Alcohol is legal to sale, legal to buy, but illegal to drink.”

As if you were drinking outside on your front porch you’d get arrested for public intoxication.

 

That also could have legal implications. You could be considered bootlegging. Could be a reason that product is not available in your home area. Then you have the possibility of having a tax evasion case against you.

 

How to do it:

clear liquor substituted for one in a case of plastic water bottles. Beer, walk around the front of the truck stop, get your suds, walk out the front of the truck stop and around back. Buy what you can finish that day, and be sure to get rid of the empties before you move.

 

In the truck or on the truck... is there really a difference?

And, personally, I think it more likely that LEO would take a look in the toolbox strapped to your catwalk than searching your bunk area during an inspection.

Maybe you should hire Bandit and Snowman to get that beer to you?