Transporting beer from another state.

Apparently you don't.

If you could read you would know I posted the FMCSA regulations.

Ah, I see you drive for Swift. Now I understand your anger and feelings of inadequacy.

 

I'm aboot to be offended. Nope, not worth the sweat.

 

Poor Swifties get no respect! I can remember when it was JB Hunt and those 55 MPH Eagles. Let a JB Hunt driver get in the left lane and it was inevitable somebody would get on the CB and ask, JB what are you doing in that left lane? Oh the good old days.

 

Yes it most certainly is! If Lone Star beer is not regularly distributed in the state of Tennessee, and someone brings it in...it is technically bootlegging.

 

"We're ahn a mission from GAHD...."

 

Two thoughts;

one is just because you got pulled over by a cop doesn't mean he can't put you out of service, all he has to do is call another cop to do that, holding you until the cop gets there isn't an issue.

OK so you are out of service for 24 hours, then your company calls you with a random, now what?

Take a cab to the random otherwise it may be a refusal?

 

I guess I could have been more clear about the OOS thing. Only a DOT/MCSAP/CVSA Enforcement Officer using the North American Standard Inspection by virtue of the use can put you officially OOS. Any cop can detain a driver. I suspect the cop will also order a breath test on the spot. Most of the time the carrier is not the ordering agency for testing in these situations. And by the time your company gets notified by YOU THE DRIVER (remember a driver and their company have a number of days to return the form) there will be nothing to test! However anytime a carrier under whom you are carrying out a safety sensitive function directs you to test most of the time they will tell you where to go and have to make exceptions for time and distance. If you don't test your goose is cooked! It's that simple.

Edited to add that you will have to contact the company about the OOS. However this does not mean safety will know anything much about the why till you fax in the form.

 

Every one is making this more than it is. To the OP, if you own your equipment, go for it(I would of without asking anyone). If its a company truck, then don't do it. Anyways, the adult beverage is gonna be sealed, so it's not like drinking and driving. We all know better, and you are only referring to a six pack of an adult beverage...... If worse comes to worse, just explain it, worse case scenario, you will be going to the can. But hardly likely.

 

Is the friend to lazy to get his on beer?