JJinVA
Well-Known Member
As a Teamster you're supposed to (ideally) notify a supervisor who isn't impared. Then its the responsibility of that person to follow the rules which are the same for anyone. If they're looking to drive you can't let them, and in any case you get a manager as a witness and intervene. Then the employee or supervisor has one bite of the apple to say, "I have a problem and I need help" to be referred to counseling. If they insist they're fine you send them for a fitness for duty test. I've been in many situations where we've prompted someone with "Are you sure you don't have anything to tell me?"
The biggest problem I think is, if they themselves reek of alcohol, how would they ever be able to smell if a driver had alcohol on their breath? Thats an obvious problem if all of management is coming in hammered.
Again, Im all for personal freedom. If you want to drink, drink as much as you want like youre at war with your liver and youre winning the war. But as soon as it moves out of the realm of self-destruction, and into the realm of putting my life and those I love at risk, then it IS, "our" problem