Other truck drivers are buying beer, should I report them?

I know for a fact that there are active safety personnel from Swift, Schneider, USA Truck, JB Hunt, Crete, and Pam to name a few that do actively pursue these boards. I agree 100% with what @kemosabi49 just stated, don't use forums or social media to brag about this kind of stuff.

 

I remember that. The guy really shot himself in the foot. I think that a lot of people changed their habit of running their mouth on social media after that.

 

in my opinion people should mind their own business. Unless you see someone cracking open a budweiser as they get into their truck in the fuel island. its honestly not your business to run your mouth. What you do when your off duty is your business as long as by the time you start your clock you're bone dry. They're not paying us by the hour, they're not paying us by the day, and those that do get payed like that are most likely making about the same as the rest of us. Half the point of our logbooks is too log the hours of duty we have to our company. our working hours. We're not some guy in a remote oil rig making more then enough during the on season that we can do what ever we want the rest of the year and still have enough for retirement. We're not some on call nurse or doctor who is waiting for some ambulance to arrive with a spare lung to save some kids life. Heck we're not even classified as skilled or essential labor to the government. At the start of the pandemic who remembers how many truckstops closed their showers and washrooms. Nobody seemed to care but the drivers. Who here actually got a bonus check or tax break from the government for being on the front line. probably nobody, meanwhile even in canada the only bonus we got was a quarantine exemption when returning to canada. When it came time for the vaccines, we weren't essential workers, but if you worked at a summer camp you got yours before anyone who was under 40. If you worked remotely you got a tax break or a check. but if you we're crossing the border to come home after driving a truck all week, you didnt have to lock yourself in. All that said, we're payed as expendable labor, we're treated as expendable labor. Where im from to get a job driving a truck you have too do 5 months of trade school, or have 2 years experience. Otherwise who ever hired you either really trusts you or is pathetically desperate. im getting 40 ish cents to the mile (30 cents if you prefer american currency). If you want to only pay us to pay attention while holding the wheel fine. But at that price don't be surprised if on occassion we decide at the end of our 6-11 hours of driving in constructions and traffic for 30 mph for most the day because it was just one of those days we're so wound up from 4 wheelers cutting us off, idiots in pickups coal rolling us that we decide, i need to crack open a cold one to cool off. Its funny we always hear about the CDL drivers ####ing up even if its just a little bit and having their career ruined. But we rarely hear about athletes, doctors and nurses abusing drugs and or alcohol and getting arrested for killing someone. in 2018 at fault drunk driving crashes by a semi truck only represented 0.011% of the crashes. Yet some nosy karen decides to make a post asking if they should report someone who is on their own unpaid time trying to relax. Like seriously theres little points here to debate, either pay us around the clock a fair wage or just buzz off trying to tell us what we cant do on our off duty time. Dont expect us to be your dog's during the time you're too cheap to pay us foor

 

You’re correct but as the senior posters are telling us here, that’s not how it works. The reality is, there’s others that will cause you issues. Myself, I don’t drink unless I’m home. But that’s my own choice, if I knew I had a long break and WANTED to have a few on my own off duty time, I WOULD! If I’m sober zero alcohol in that truck and I get fired? I can assure there would be a legal fight. If your work in ANY capacity in any job expects things from you, while off? They have to pay you!!!
Technically, even if they call you to ask you a question. I know for fact I give 8-16 hours on average per week, of actual work to the company. It’s just how it is.

examples:
I’m dropping a trailer, my phone rings it’s dispatch. They want me to drive around a huge receiver with thousands of trailers and find a specific one. Took me 30 minutes to find the trailer and then they wanted me to tell them what the tag said the problem was on it. I got no pay for that. Cut into my driving time too.

How many hours do you sit not knowing when you’ll be unloaded? You can’t leave, you have to sit there.

Another time I went to pick up a preloaded trailer and it was buried behind eight trailers that I had to move. It took me over an hour. No pay for that either. Another time I was asked to fill up a reefer tank for another driver who was running late. On and on the list goes.

 

its because we let them, too many drivers are too willing. its a shame well never see everyone get organised enough to stand up for ourselves. have everyone take a 34 at the exact same time, just park at a truckstop mid day and everyone takes a 34. Im sure people would quickly notice how essential we are

 

You can come into these boards and rail about staying out of other drivers' business all you want. Honestly, as long as you stay off duty I don't give a tinkers (redacted) what you do in your truck I have a hard enough time as it is minding my business. HOWEVER, this does not change the fact especially with larger carriers other drivers are ratting you out. It might surprise the average driver just how many people email videos to safety critters or send links to such a video below. REMEMBER every one of these videos somebody had most likely either a smartphone or a go pro camera. Safety people get so dang many of these things today it's way past the point of being stupid! These things really are not funny! What they really are is 100% pathetic!

 

392.4 States alcohol may only be in a commerical vehicle as part of a load,If you choose to drink, do it in the sleeper, do not answer the door (my policy anyway). I dont know of any good that is going to come of answering the door. turn your engine off and leave it that way.
Would I rat out another driver, No mind your business not theres.

 

One of the most funny social media flubs was a guy that tagged his company on something about the company on Twitter. Somebody at the company then added that URL to a folder where they kept all the @s NO they did not follow him. Then about 3 or 4 months later he posted a smartphone selfie video of himself drunk at some truck stop. I can't find enough ways to describe how incredibly ignorant and stupid that was. Of course, he got canned. Lost a good job too. I would post a link to his Twitter page, but he removed all those tweets and Twitter suspended his account because of politics.