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

lol…!!! Think I know who the main chief, cook, pot, and bottle washer is at your company…..

 

Well a construction forman just had to have the bosses number one day. I think he understands now.

 

I worked with a driver that drank a case of Mountain Dew every day, seven days a week.
Another one was the same with Pepsi.

 

You know, that in itself is illegal in most and probably all states. While it’s hard to crack down on I do know Ohio excise waited for people to come back over the State line from Indiana to bust them. Just sayin’

 

It is not illegal to sell with the proper license. Grocery stores sell it. It is illegal for a CMV driver to possess alcohol in a cmv without a permit and or a BOL

 

While On Duty.

 

In North Carolina

Open Container | NC DPS

Open Container
Transporting Alcohol/Open Container

Open and closed containers of all alcoholic beverages are prohibited in all commercial motor vehicles (bus, eighteen-wheeler, dump truck, etc.) except as listed below.

An open container of any alcoholic beverage is prohibited in the passenger area of any motor vehicle (commercial or non-commercial) located on the highway or highway right of way - even if the vehicle is parked except as listed below.

• If the seal on a container of alcoholic beverage has been broken, it is open.
• "Passenger area of a motor vehicle" means the area designed to seat the driver and passengers and any area within the reach of a seated driver or passenger, including the glove compartment.
• In the case of a station wagon, hatchback or similar vehicle, the area behind the last upright back seat is not considered part of the passenger area.

An open container of a malt beverage (beer, malt liquor, ale, hard lemonade) or unfortified wine (table wine, champagne) is prohibited.

• In the passenger area of a motor vehicle designed, manufactured and used primarily for transportation of persons for compensation (buses, taxi-cabs, etc.);
• In the living quarters of a motor home or home car;
• In a house trailer.

Note: Open containers of spirituous liquor (bourbon, gin, vodka, etc.), mixed drinks or fortified wine (wine with higher alcohol content, i.e., 17% to 24%, such as sherry or port) in the passenger area of any motor vehicle is always unlawful.

The amount of unopened alcoholic beverage which may be transported without a permit is as follows:

• Not more than 80 liters of malt beverages, other than draft malt beverages in kegs;
• Any amount of draft malt beverages in kegs;
• Not more than 20 liters of unfortified wine;
• Not more than eight liters of either fortified wine or spirituous liquor, or eight liters of the two combined.

 

Don't risk your cdl to transport your favorite beer. It's not that good no matter what it is.
Get a ratty hotel room for like $50 on the first night of a 34 hour reset if you have to drink. Then you've got a good 24 hours to get the alcohol out of your system before you've got to drive again.

 

I think there is no need to have any alkohol in the truck.
I think also that it is possibly illigal with out the permission from a judge to look into the tool box with out permission.
There I like the europeans much more. There they don*t have any problems with the alkohl in the truck. And if You want, at the end of the shift You can enjoy Your beer or wine on the motor hood of Your trck with Your workmates.
M.