New rule.law????

Well, basically what it means is that CDL holders are now subject to the same penalties for moving violations in their cars as they would be had they been cited in a truck.

 

Yeah thats what it means, but there is still due process and so things can be negotiated through a court, or with a court's officers. A colleague was on vacation and was in his personal vehicle and was charged with OMVI even though he wasn't driving, it took two weeks but he is driving truck again pending trial. He was in the car and had the keys but he wasn't in the driver's seat, he was waiting for his wife to come and drive them back to the motel where they were staying. If you have been drinking, by law, you can't possess the keys to a vehicle if it is a CMV and you are occupying it. I think a regular license holder actually has to be driving to be charged, or has to have been proven to have actually driven
the vehicle. If I'm wrong about the private vehicle, someone please correct me.

 

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You are right, it is b.s. but if your friend had been sleeping it off in a tractor trailer instead of a van, he just may have been convicted depending on the jurisdiction involved. It also cost him money for the lawyer and his time, what I tell people is that a CDL comes with a target painted on your back for anyone in law enforcement to tag anyway that they can. I never drink on the road at all and generally don't drink period. It's not worth it and I don't like headaches, actual or legal. Like it or not, some places and gendarmes, hold us to a higher standard than the rest of the population.