Fired for intoxication but I wasn't drunk

[Johney]

The package drivers used to park their UPS cars at the bar on friday afternoons and drink with the sups. Sometimes local cops would join in. Different days. Just more people, cars,trucks, now a days. Everything was more relaxed and simpler back then.

SMH

 

[Johney]

Interesting...in my state they draw blood to confirm the breathalyzer in all dui cases. Because without the blood test, the charges often times will not hold up in court.

A good lawyer should have a field day getting your charges dismissed on breathalyzer alone - they're not terribly accurate, and because of that, there's plenty of precedent of cases being tossed out for relying on them alone. A blood test, along with a field sobriety and breathalyzer, makes for an ironclad open and shut case. Which is probably why they're a requirement in my area.

But I guess it's not that way everywhere apparently. I was wrong to assume it was.

They have dash cam video 99% of the time showing you are failing roadside sobriety. They generally do that before even asking you to take a breathalyzer. So even if you refuse to blow it's hard to deny it.

In my state, a blood draw is not required.


They can use a portable Breathalyzer, field sobriety, and officer testimony as

probable cause to arrest. Then at the station, they can have you take a confirmation

Breathalyzer by a state certified technician on a state certified machine.


Best thing to do.... is refuse any tests and keep your mouth shut.

Pretty much the same here.

Not here.

It can be an automatic 1 year suspension of your drivers license.

(that's what the police will threaten you with, if you refuse)

But, when you get to court you can always plead guilty.... and then it's

only 6 months with driving privileges.


That's what all the judges, lawyers, and cops do when they get popped.

You get one freebie here to deny the breathalyzer that's it. Second time(if you happen to be that stupid)automatic 1 year suspension. CDL you can not refuse,but if you do automatic 1 year suspension.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

We used to have coolers in the trunk for a quick beer or two after work. UPS has cameras that can see people drinking but are somehow unable to see when cars get broken into.

Remember when UPS would have picnics or pizza parties with beer? That went away when they got scared of liabilities.

Can't have fun anymore.

 

[542thruNthru]

SMH

I thought the same thing but didn't say anything because I was hoping she meant their personal cars not UPS trucks.

Because if she means UPS trucks then yeah I have to say BS

 

[Johney]

I thought the same thing but didn't say anything because I was hoping she meant their personal cars not UPS trucks.

Because if she means UPS trucks then yeah I have to say BS

Just when I thought I've heard some real BS from her she come's up with something bigger.

 

[oldupsman]

Those Thirsty Thursday nights out were EPIC. Not proud of it but I remember one day hiding in an alley puking my guts out from the night before. I shut the bars down many Thursday nights and then met the wives after work on Friday to do it all over again. We were bullet proof.

It was 2 to 4 nights a week for us.
We didn't drink with Management though.
Not having a hangover when punching in the next morning was rare in the 80s and early 90s

Guys coming in Friday mornings half loaded was as common as guys having sex in the back of their
package cars or on the route. Honestly, both were common in the 70's and 80's.

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

Guys coming in Friday mornings half loaded was as common as guys having sex in the back of their
package cars or on the route. Honestly, both were common in the 70's and 80's.

Yes they were.
Sex in the package can still happens daily though.

 

[Johney]

Sex in the package can still happens daily though.

Someone you're meeting daily?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Yes they were.
Sex in the package can still happens daily though.

What is a 'package can'?

 

[olroadbeech]

I thought the same thing but didn't say anything because I was hoping she meant their personal cars not UPS trucks.

Because if she means UPS trucks then yeah I have to say BS

You'd have to ask some ol timers from the 80's if they are still around. this was at the Willows satelite center in Cali. yes. it was package cars that they parked at the bar. i really don't care .

 

[beatupbrown]

we use to have a rural driver show up with booze breath all the time ,I heard he finally got popped . 80s and 90s showing up hang over still a little drunk happened a lot .Now the pace is gunning and running to the point they need a IV to keep going .

 

[Johney]

i really don't care .

I'm sure you don't care, neither does anybody else with your BS stories.

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

You'd have to ask some ol timers from the 80's if they are still around. this was at the Willows satelite center in Cali. yes. it was package cars that they parked at the bar. i really don't care .

Bologna

 

[Redtag]

You'd have to ask some ol timers from the 80's if they are still around. this was at the Willows satelite center in Cali. yes. it was package cars that they parked at the bar. i really don't care .

I was going to say BS but then I read willows ca.

Been there several times and totally possible in that place

 

[rod]

Can't drink in the parking lot anymore

I'd have to quit work then. It was SOP back when.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

I'd have to quit work then. It was SOP back when.

You wouldn't even recognize this place anymore

 

[toonertoo]

I read four pages. I dont know. No alcohol in blood is good. Should have called off. Thats what I would do, but then on a work night I wouldnt do it in 2000 +.

 

[olroadbeech]

I was going to say BS but then I read willows ca.

Been there several times and totally possible in that place

very small town. lived there for awhile until the center closed. the satelite center was just set up for feeders and some package back a long time ago when California was thinking of allowing triples on the Interstate 5 corridor.

it never came to pass so the company closed it along with a bunch of other centers around 1996-97. about 17 of us drivers were scattered all over. some went to sacramento , some cordelia, one went to oregon , i think one went to redding, and a couple guys retired. it was a mess.

kinda glad it did close looking back . the town of willows is in the middle of nowhere. it does have a wal-mart but that's about it.

 

[olroadbeech]

I read four pages. I dont know. No alcohol in blood is good. Should have called off. Thats what I would do, but then on a work night I wouldnt do it in 2000 +.

agree.

was off on my birthday and had a steak and a couple beers. supe called me to handle run that another driver called off on. told supe I could not do it. he pleaded and then begged and then threatened. told him no. he said he would have to do it. ( was a feeder trainer ) if i didn't. I said sorry and I was not going to risk my million dollar cdl . man was he pissed.

if he couldn't understand that .......... well actually not surprised since he was a UPS manager......

 

[Maple Grove MN Driver]

agree.

was off on my birthday and had a steak and a couple beers. supe called me to handle run that another driver called off on. told supe I could not do it. he pleaded and then begged and then threatened. told him no. he said he would have to do it. ( was a feeder trainer ) if i didn't. I said sorry and I was not going to risk my million dollar cdl . man was he pissed.

if he couldn't understand that .......... well actually not surprised since he was a UPS manager......

Bologna