Swift has driver arrested.

Wow
Just curious would you explain your random check
We have had this discussion before but
Interrupting your 10 shouldn't be allowed

 

How did we get to the point where someone can be charged and convicted of "presumed intent"? Taken to the next [logical] level, just being in possession of keys to a motor vehicle should be enough to convict.

Agreed ... I'm all ears too. Going to my comment above, if a driver is on a rest period then the presumption should be that s/he wil not be doing any driving; rather than the opposite which is what currently happens.

 

Being in the truck with any kind of alcohol in his system should not and is not allowed no matter what!
The first thing to go while under the influence is judgment, and laying 3 feet from the controls in that conditions is down right scary and too big of a temptation.

 

He knew the rules. NO drinking in his truck. If he had wanted to drink, he should either be in his house or a motel room. Good for Swift. ZERO TOLERANCE

 

My guess is the cop saw him leave wherever he was drinking and followed him to his truck. Your truck is not a car, it is a home. Personally I don't think the cop should have even knocked on his window unless he saw the truck start, and even then it should have only been to make sure he wasn't planning on driving. The DUI laws in this country have gone so far over board that even this unreasonable action is now viewed as "acceptable" which could not be further from the truth. Maybe if he was piloting an oil tanker or an airline I could see this result.....

 

According to, and for, whom?

 

Every bit of research in the use and effect of alcohol... no one can refute that with any expectation of success, If you don't know this to be a fact I'd suggest you go back to grade school where it is first presented to students.

 

It's probably been re-defined, again.
By the courts, again.

I'm thinkin' that'd depend on witch of the numerous
cops-&-robbers shows on TV we watch.
Sometimes they get a conviction.

Who knows what a LEO is
presuming?

I don't know where y'all were when parked, a designated area, or an on/off ramp, or another un-designated area, .... which can draw attention.
And who's attention it draws.

Here's what I do know -----

SOMEtimes, parkin' in certain areas is frowned upon by LEO's for a myriad reasons.
We need only be aware of their frown.

If we miss that, and park in those areas, sumthin's gonna give.
Often citations given.

According to the LEO I spoke with, in their industry, they call it a
RousT.
And the word spreads over the CB like wild-fire
in the wind.
Solving a permanently present situation, at least ---
Temporarily.

That same LEO also told me that, during "rousts", ---
What THEY do, and how the DO it, depends a LOT on
ATTITUDES.
Imagine that.
Human Nature.

Me personally?
I don't mess with Mother OR Human Nature.

ThunderBolts & Lightning
Very, Very Frightening ME!
(~~~ Freddy Mercury -- Queen.)

 

Well, perhaps you don't have any control when consuming alcohol, but that does not necessarily apply to the rest of us.

 

It's not You, and It's not me, it's how the human animal is affected by the consumption of alcohol, we are all the same. The only variable in it is the amount of alcohol based on size of their bodies, not brains, which will slow down the affect but not eliminate it.

Which brings us back to the fact that a truck cab is no place to have, consume, or be under influence of alcohol or drugs period any time, not just because it's the law and you agreed to it when you got your cdl but because it's wrong!

Most states have the same laws for duii, dui, dwi, or what ever that states calls it. If you are in the vehicle with the keys and are under the influence of alcohol or drugs, even if your are parked and asleep, you will be charged with that crime and more than likely get convicted of it. The reason for the police contact can be anything from a suspicious vehicle or welfare check, either way you get the same results.

So why now should it be different for Trucker?