Open beer in truck

Weeellllll.... I sometimes have a couple beers in my truck. The difference is that its parked on private property, the beers are coming from my coworkers, and I'm starting my 10hr or 34hr break and I live in the #### thing, so where else am I supposed to finish the beer after the payday party is over?

 

My only thought

 

Considering alcohol is absolutely forbidden in a commercial motor vehicle in the US, in a CLOSED container, that's some really bad stuff heading your way.

 

Lol, where does it say that?

 

I was a mover/lumper for a year and a otr mover for 6 months not all lumpers r bad but they do start talking about money right off the bat and after the job is done try to ask for more. I will say moving is one of the most physically demanding jobs EVER and id lik to see some of these high and mighty, yet sober, dock bumpers try and load or lump 17k in hhg. I'll bet in OP's situation, he is a local guy and the lumpers r ppl he works with every day

 

Heard a story once of a o/o bobtail ING home for new years. Stopped at a liquor store to pick up some champaign for him and the wife and stuck it in his SIDE BOX. dot man happened to be in the store, follows him and pulls him over. O/O looses his license for having alch in a commercial vehicle

 

Popcorn baby, popcorn

 

having booze in the truck is transporting alcohol without a permit. was told by a Tenn.DOT when I asked what the cardboard box ,on the ground by his van, full of odd cans of beer was. they look in the coolers and confiscate it. this was yrs ago ,late '80's,and I was being written up for a bad tire

 

If you get stopped, especially by a motor carrier, you can pretty much consider your CDL career over.

The decision on how to proceed in this matter is a no-brainer, for anyone with half a brain.

 

I was a mover for about 6 years back when I lived in Houston, and all of us were drinkers ...right after work, first thing we did was get a 12 pack and get drunk...it's in the "mover blood" ...I used to drive, not an 18 wheeler bt a 2500 Dodge Ram with a 24ft trailer and they always drank while I drove...but since you're driving an 18 wheeler, don't put your CDL on the line over some dumb ####, put your foot down