Alcohol and OTR

[cdreid]

All this arguing..

Heres the plain truth. Your company.. any company heres of you having a beeer in the cab of your truck you're out of trucking. Done. Finished.

A trooper or DOT officer finds one he's gonna take you, your log books and your truck apart and maybe call your company.

I knew a guy who was like some of these guys.. they HAD to have alchohol. though they deny it.. they just "toss down a couple soldiers".. which btw is what my VERY alchoholic grandfather called them. This one drank a quart of vodka every night before bed. He ran about 300 miles a day and lived in his truck. The vodka is all he had. He was suffering from late term alchoholism (swollen nose cartilidge from liver failure) and he complained that he constantly got pulled in by dot. Thing is he got pulled a couple times legit, they saw the signs and put the word out.

If you cant give up alchohol (at least except at home) give up trucking. Its not a moral thing it s a law thing.

Now.. imagine a car slams on the brakes in front of you. You kill them.. their fault. Well.. cept you had 6 beers the night before and are still blowing a .02. Your great great great great grandchildren will still be paying off the judgement against you. Even if you do get off the vehicular homicide charge.

[Greeneyed Trucking Girl]

Roehl will fire you for having Non-Alcoholic beer in the truck. It happened. We are to recover the truck in Oregon and bring the driver back.

[jonp]

That nails it right there.

Bottom line, while the regulations might say one thing, companies are going to be a lot more anal about it. Alcohol in a truck, whether officially charged or not, is going to be an immediate termination from most companies out there. And if you get terminated for having alcohol in the truck, no company in their right mind is going to hire you.

Leave the booze at home. That 6-pack in the cooler has no business being in your truck.

Exactly. I've had a beer while on the road but only if I was shut down for the weekend and was going NOWHERE. I did not bring it into the truck. Had one with dinner and allowed a whole day from when having the beer to when I drove.

Simply put: Every company that I know of has an alcohol policy that excludes alcohol from the truck at any time and is grounds for immediate termination. Listerine and stuff is ok. Dr. Bobs Patent Snake Bite and Croup Solver is not.

[cdswans]

12 years and no truck stop bars?

I can't think of a truck stop in Montana that doesn't have at least one. All the Pilot/Town Pumps, Fred's at the Crossroads in Frenchtown, the other one across I-90, the $10,000,000,000,000 . . silver dollar place has 2, the FJ in Belgrade has one and another next door, FJ in Billings has a casino so I think they serve there but have no first hand knowledge . . the diner next door is another matter.

And on to North and South Dakota . . Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismark, Sioux Falls, Rapid City . . these are all big, name brand places that serve on premise, not the obscure and unknown.

FJ in LaGrande serves on premise only with a limit of 3 and only with a meal! (I didn't have either) Seven Feathers, I-5 MM 99, the TA in Eugene (a joke), the Western themed place near Salem. The others GH (and others) have mentioned.

It'd be easier to name the few in Nevada that don't.

Garden City and Goodland, KS. Fergus Falls, MN. NM has at least 3 or 4 casinos with truck fuel and parking.

I've made myself so curious I'm beginning to wonder what they all must look like inside!

Which Rs do you OT, Rev? Can't be 11 West and anything less isn't OTR, is it?

[golfhobo]

HeHe.... Ya gotta LOVE "Western 11!" Gun totin' beer drinkers!

Heck.... think I'll move to Montana and become a Conservative!

[lovely09]

Really?I know beer and other alcoholic drinks were prohibited but haven't know a mouthwash also do.I mean it's part of personal hygiene.Anyone experience the policy?

[danske]

12 years and no truck stop bars?

I can't think of a truck stop in Montana that doesn't have at least one. All the Pilot/Town Pumps, Fred's at the Crossroads in Frenchtown, the other one across I-90, the $10,000,000,000,000 . . silver dollar place has 2, the FJ in Belgrade has one and another next door, FJ in Billings has a casino so I think they serve there but have no first hand knowledge . . the diner next door is another matter.

And on to North and South Dakota . . Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismark, Sioux Falls, Rapid City . . these are all big, name brand places that serve on premise, not the obscure and unknown.

FJ in LaGrande serves on premise only with a limit of 3 and only with a meal! (I didn't have either) Seven Feathers, I-5 MM 99, the TA in Eugene (a joke), the Western themed place near Salem. The others GH (and others) have mentioned.

It'd be easier to name the few in Nevada that don't.

Garden City and Goodland, KS. Fergus Falls, MN. NM has at least 3 or 4 casinos with truck fuel and parking.

I've made myself so curious I'm beginning to wonder what they all must look like inside!

Which Rs do you OT, Rev? Can't be 11 West and anything less isn't OTR, is it?

Heck, Nevada Joe's in Lathrop Wells, NV on US-95 has bar and a BOTHEL in back(Honest, I haven't been to either)!

[golfhobo]

Heck, Nevada Joe's in Lathrop Wells, NV on US-95 has bar and a BOTHEL in back(Honest, I haven't been to either)!

Um.... that's BROTHEL.... but, thanks for the info!

[SickRick]

Um.... that's BROTHEL.... but, thanks for the info!

Been to plenty of W.H.O.R.E. HOUSES myself - never been to a BOTHEL though...

Bothel is a small town in the district of Rotenburg, Germany in the Luneburg Heath region of central Lower Saxony. It has 2,500 inhabitants. Bothel was founded by workers of the nearby Trochel Forest. The name developed from Borstel which is Old Saxon and means "little woods".

Rick