Check your DAC
 

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to warn drivers to check their DAC reports when they leave a company. I was working for a major company. It was Saturday and I was sitting in Dallas having just delivered a load. No plan out and I figured I wasn't going to get one until Monday, so I decided to have a few beers and kick back and watch some movies. About 2 hours later a load comes across that has to pick up immediately.

I was a little buzzed, but not drunk. I decided to go get the load and got pulled over for an inspection by a trooper on the way over. He arrested me for DWI, was just barely over the limit.

Long story short, I hired a lawyer and was able to beat the charge because of a discrepancy in the calibration records of the breathalyzer.

Even though I have NOT been convicted of DWI, this company still puts it on my record and won't take it off. I think I'll probably have to get a lawyer to make them. Just a warning to the noobs to watch their DAC reports because companies will put false information on them.

Just a warning to noobs. If you plan to drive a truck don't drink unless on a reset and not subject to dispatch.

You should not drive a truck for at least 10 years of sobriety. So what if you got off on a technicality you still drove under the influence. Hopefully you are blackballed from this industry because i don't want you on the road around me or my family.

Really, 10 years? How many drivers do you know that waited 10 years between their last beer before they drove a truck? I know exactly zero.

The point is, I had my day in court and won and my old company has to accept that. It just sounds like a case of hard feelings on their part. If I had lost I would have fully accepted the consequences, but I did not lose. I suspect I won't be blackballed for too long once the legal action begins.

I agree with WSYROB, what a completely stupid thing to do, and then to claim "I'm just buzzed" no biggee. I'm glad the company did what they did, and hopefully it will follow you in the next few years, you deserve whatever you don't get in life out of trucking.

I hope you are blackballed you idiot! Along with that cdl is suppose to come a little responsibility. I wouldn't want a moron like you on the same highways with my family! :moon:

Yeah that's the amount of time most companies applications require. They will ask it in a way that you will have to disclose what happened. They won't care that you got off on a technicality.
None but I know hundreds who will wait at least 8 hours after drinking before getting behind the wheel. You aren't one of them. Find another profession.

Another idiot that call himself a truck driver. I hope you never get a job driving again. It's idiots like you that give us a bad reputation. :cheers: :booze: :drunk: STUPID........

Thank you, adonavan for the advice. I'm sorry to hear about your DAC. You deserved it. You don't deserve to see the light of day.
Maybe you can go wash dishes, or clean bathrooms. You aughta fit right in. :thumbsup:
Good luck in finding a new profession, because you don't belong in this one. In order to drive a truck, you have to be responsible to drive one. I don't like the idea of having low-down scumbags like you behind the wheel of a big truck.

I seen this post and didn't respond because I thought I would be harsh in my comment's, glad to see I'm not alone in my thoughts.
Drunk driving is stupid beyond belief, maybe you should talk to people effected by this selfish act of colossal stupidity.
Time to grow up and be responsible for your actions.

In all states its written that buzzed driving is STILL drunk driving by classification. I don't know how many I arrested that felt they wern't drunk, but my field sobriety tests showed otherwise due to impaired cognitave abilities.

I agree with the others... just because you got off on a technicality does not mean you were innocent.

Uh.....hello

Yes. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. They have so many commercials about it.

This woodpecker needs to have his license revoked, and never sit behind the wheel again.

Yeah, alcohol and driving a big rig really don't mix at all!

I'll spare you all the sigh and roll of the eyes.

Look, it's easy to moralize and pass judgment on a public forum and it's easier to do so when no one knows your backgrounds; so save it.

I hate to break it to you Jackrabbit379, but truck driving has about the same social clout as washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms.

As for the personal attacks, they mean little coming from someone in the sleeper of a truck who's typing insults in between porn site visits.:thumbsup:

Finally, to address the technicality of my acquittal; trashing some cop's shoddy work in front of a jury of my peers is more than getting off on a technicality. So Mystikal, yes I am in fact innocent. The law is that if the state can't convict, the defendant is innocent, and the state failed miserably in this case.

Howl and rant on, kiddos.

Geez what a fool, dude it's a technicality when you get off because the equipment was not calibrated. Do you not know the meaning of the word "technicality?" Your telling a poster who is an obvious LEO that he's wrong on it being a technicality? By the court your innocent but you were still driving drunk by your own admission so in reality you weren't innocent. You know exactly zero people who have waited to drive 10 years between drinks? We must run in different circles then, I know 4 and they haven't touched a beer since they got busted that first time. Personally I've never touched a beer in my life and don't plan on starting anytime soon.

The sad thing, this ding-aling may not be able to drive a truck anymore but he will still be able to drive a 4-wheeler and still risk killing you and I................

You're still a moron. I hope CSA 2010 kicks your ass.

I wish you were in Illinois when you got pulled over. If you have a CDL in this state and are driving a personal vehicle, your blood alcohol level has to be 0. Yes a total zero. They would have had fun with you in a commercial vehicle. I don't think you're supposed to drive a commercial vehicle for 10 hours after any alcohol consumption, but I could be wrong.

Also, were you sitting in your truck drinking? You said the message came across the qualcomm that you had a load so I'm assuming you were sitting in your bunk kicking back a few. Major illegal by the way. The only time you can have alcohol in a commercial vehicle is if it's on your BOL.

Also, it's illegal to drink when you're subject to dispatch. You obviously were, you just assumed they wouldn't give you anything.

You're trying to justify your actions, but they aren't justifiable. You could have told them you'd had a few beers and couldn't drive BUT I'm assuming you didn't want to do that and get fired, right? You should have done the right thing and not drove- PERIOD! I wish they would have given you another test at the station with a different machine so you'd be gone right now instead of out in the motoring public.

No, you are not "INNOCENT! I'll bet you anything you want that the paperwork you have from the courts does not have the word "INNOCENT" anywhere on them. I'll bet it says, "Not Guilty" which only means that you were not found guilty AS CHARGED, that the prosecutor failed to present evidence to convict. This is far from being INNOCENT!

Were you too drunk to drive, yes, does your DAC need changed, depends, does it state you were terminated for being "charged" or "convicted" of the offense? Again, I'll bet your DAC states that you were terminated for be "CHARGED" with DWI which is a proper entry. I see no reason for your DAC to be changed, you were charged, you beat the charge which is what you have to inform any prospective employer.

If you were stupid enough not to inform your dispatcher you were drinking and refuse the load you deserve exactly what you have gotten yourself into.

Something else to think about, you better check with the local DMV of your state and ensure you actually have a valid drivers license, much less a CDL. In many states, a charge of DWI results in an automatic suspension. They don't have to inform you and for the most part, the first time you will know about it is when you get stopped and charged for driving with a suspended license.

I know this guy (cousin) and am pretty sure he probably went ahead and drove because "he was just buzzed"....

I've known for years he shouldn't hold a CDL, in fact he just got them back 3 months ago after a 1 year revocation.

This is probably "it" for him this time (I hope and pray) and it's just dumb luck it didn't take a life to do it.

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Troll always collects the toll. I'm surprised that one went over. Ya'll are too easy.

I've seen many folks decide to quit drinking but I've never seen a dumbass quit being a dumbass.

Is this your first attempt at trolling? If so, then you have a LONG way to go. A real troll posts something that disrupts the thread or board. All you did is help reaffirm everyone's belief that there is NO place for drinking and driving in a CMV or a POV. This thread may serve as a wake-up for other drivers or it may give a STRONG hint for future CDL holders as what to expect in this industry. Good post.

So... in other words, he made it all up? He didn't get a DWI afterall?

Seems that way. Something seemed odd to me with the first post. My thoughts were either, He's very stupid to admit on a forum that he deliberately drove while intoxicated or he's pulling our legs. Honestly, I'll group myself with everyone else, because I assumed it was the former. ;)

I thought it also sounded odd, but some are dumb enough...
Oh well.
Why would anyone make that up? How stupid.

You're right, by that definition it wasn't a good troll, but I still got a good chuckle. Seriously, they were vibrating.

No, I never got a DWI. It's been about 7 years since I was a driver.

You must lead a sad life. :roll3:

Maybe you should move into the State Hospital. :mad:

And here I was....Thinking that it was "The Rev.....trying to stir the pot! :lol:


But I did have that "WTF is this? It's a frigging joke". :rofl:


But......the replies were pretty straight on!! :clap:

Not too sad, just loads of downtime at work.

You guys are really sensitive. I didn't meant to get y'all worked up with the insult spewing and all. Well, yes I did. Tell me more about about how stupid I am and how sad my life must be. I know, maybe you could throw in some loser comments too! everyone knows that insults coming from toothless truck drivers really sting!

I was bored tonight...... does it show? :lol:

This guy only turned troll, after his balls dropped off.
Now he is struggling, and looking for an end to this. :lol:

Guess what? He found it. I guess I should have let you guys have a little fun first. :(

Yeah...that was dumb. Guess we gotta pick on you now. :mad:

Gitt'im Boys!!! :pissedoff:

Come on now. I thought that a group of high school dropouts would certainly have better insults than this.

Will it help if I point out that not only do you guys sleep in wheeled vehicles 3 weeks a month for minimum wage (at best), but when you come home the double-wide that you carry 30 year notes on, you're still sleeping in a wheeled vehicle! How about those insults now?

If it doesn't get any better the mod might as well go ahead lock the thread and ban my ip.

Do you actually think your immaturity will rile us up? Honestly, what grade are you in?

It already has.

If you say so. My friend, you are showing your level of maturity and your ignorance of our occupation.

My question still remains unanswered. It wasn't rhetorical. Surely most adults wouldn't say such ridiculous things about someone elses chosen career field, would they? So tell me, what grade are you in?

While you maintain that your question is not rhetorical, it certainly is rhetoric. Both questions you posed are loaded questions. Loaded questions are rhetorical devices commonly used by the uneducated. I'd ask what grade you're in too, but it's clear you never attended school.

Okay, my secret is out.

Sorry, there's nothing you could ever say to rile me up.

My question isn't loaded. I truly believed that you might have been a teenager trying to ruffle peoples feathers with your comments. I apologize if you aren't.

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