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Gary Stadler (Boogiethecat) (68.7.217.217)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 3:02 am: | |
I'm curious if I would get stuck in jail for having a corked wine bottle or previously opened bottle of liqueur back in the kitchen storage cabinets of my bus. In a car it'd be instant arrest in a lot of states unless the stuff was locked away in the trunk. But what about our busses that havn't got a trunk? Do you have to store it in a bay? or is in the kitchen with all the rest of the people-consumables an Ok place?
Gary |
CoryDane RTSII (66.155.188.3)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:05 am: | |
Though I have never had the problem, my understanding (For Illinois) is No Open Alcoholic Containers in a moving vehicle. That is the first thing they look for and if found will guarentee a "drunk-o-meter" test.
As for storage, if it were in a frig or stowed in a rack or box, it is, after all, a motor home.
The above stated was stated for vehicular travel, (cars mostly) but as the motor home is a vehicle, it will apply as well.
"Imagine"
cd |
jsgerlick (205.188.116.135)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 8:06 am: | |
In Illinois, if your bus has "RV" plates, you may have open alcohol behind the drivers seat. Going down the road or parked. |
Sean Welsh (Sean) (64.81.73.194)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 1:19 pm: | |
Most states have an exemption for previously-opened (but now re-closed) containers in a motorhome as long as they are not immediately accessible to the driver. California, which is one of the strictest states on alcohol, has this exemption explicitly written in to the vehicle code.
Some states allow passengers in the rear of a motorhome to have open containers in their posession.
-Sean |
Jim Ashworth (Jimnh) (172.175.39.224)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:09 pm: | |
New Hampshire specifically exempts motorhomes, whether parked or under way, from the open container statutes. You can have a rolling party as long as the driver is sober. RV'ers, it seems, are a lot more sensible than the general public when it comes to driving the RV after drinking, and NH knows it.
Jim |
Scott Whitney (69.35.62.177)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 9:37 am: | |
I had a friend who liked to drink beers on our way to camping trips while I was driving my class C. I didn't mind that he sat in the passenger seat with open container. As long as I wasn't drinking, which I never did. I figure if we ever got pulled over, unlikely in an RV to anyway, I'd of just asked him to walk in back and wait there for me to deal with the traffic stop.
My only complaint was after a few beers he all of a sudden forgot how the fridge latch worked, forced it open, and busted the latch. . .
Scott |
Geoff (Geoff) (66.238.120.40)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:35 am: | |
Scott's story reminds me of a story told by a friend of mine who was driving a Class A through Nevada with a bunch of his friends who were all drinking. After a while they got obnoxious and started whooping and hollering out the windows until the cops pulled them over. The police wanted to search the vehicle so the drunks demanded a search warrant (which the cops managed to get-- necessary or not). The driver was sober so after checking the RV out they had to let everybody go. |
Sam Sperbeck (204.248.119.254)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:11 am: | |
Hi Gary,
There are lots of charter buses going to and from ball games (most likely other events, too) with drinking and drunk passengers on board without being stopped. I don't know if the same rules apply to bus conversions, but I suspect they do.
Thanks, Sam Sperbeck
La Crescent, MN |
Sean Welsh (Sean) (64.81.73.194)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:56 am: | |
Sam,
Private conversions, in most states, follow a separate set of rules than certicicated carriers.
For instance, in most states with seat belt laws, all occupants of a motorhome must be belted (or, in a few, there must at least be belts in all "designated" seats), while common carriers have no such requirment.
As another example, if you drive your Lincoln around town with your wife drinking in the back seat, either you or she can probably be ticketed, or maybe even arrested. But if the Lincoln belongs to (and is driven by) a licensed limo company, its OK.
-Sean |