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29 per day

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burd said:
Why isn't .03 considered "drunk driving?" There is some measure of impairment there which could cause the same kind of injury or death.
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I wish I could remember, but semi-truck driver have a .04 DUI law, I think. It's drastically lower than the normal driver.

You take some cough medicine and you're at a .01, even N/A Beer still has alcohol in it, and will register.

I've driven drunk once. It was at a campground with friends (and we have known the owner for decades), and we had a sort of roundabout that only went through our campsites. Everyone took a turn at the wheel, and whoever wasn't driving basically guarded the roundabout, in case someone veered of the road (at 15 mph max, btw). I tell ya, that is one big ol' wakeup call to realize the impairment.

No idea of what anyone's BAC was, but that didn't matter. Once you experience that, or a simulation of that...hoo boy.
 
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Not to derail this thread but one interesting aside is that sleep deprivation very quickly catches up BAC when it comes to impairment. Roughly, if you are up for 24 hours, you are beyond the legal limit of BAC with regards to reaction time and decision making.
 
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WisconsinWildcard said:
Not to derail this thread but one interesting aside is that sleep deprivation very quickly catches up BAC when it comes to impairment. Roughly, if you are up for 24 hours, you are beyond the legal limit of BAC with regards to reaction time and decision making.
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God yes. The longest I ever stayed up was about 36 hours straight. Not even sh*ing you, I was hallucinating. I was seeing things that were not there.
 
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Brenthoven said:
God yes. The longest I ever stayed up was about 36 hours straight. Not even sh*ing you, I was hallucinating. I was seeing things that were not there.
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Those were called Tuesdays in engineering school. At least a dozen or two of us would pull all-nighters every Tuesday for lab reports. 36 hours is nothing. Hell, I’m guessing a lot of kids in college pull this. Certainly engineering, law, and med schools.

Longest I’ve ever stayed up was three straight days. Wouldn’t do it again. Probably couldn’t. Don’t care to to try.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Those were called Tuesdays in engineering school. At least a dozen or two of us would pull all-nighters every Tuesday for lab reports. 36 hours is nothing. Hell, I’m guessing a lot of kids in college pull this. Certainly engineering and med schools.

Longest I’ve ever stayed up was three straight days. Wouldn’t do it again. Probably couldn’t. Don’t care to to try.
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This was in college. I don't care to try 36 nowadays. Have pulled 24 hours since then, and last summer pulled an 8 hour sleep (3 were sh*y hours in my car) from 8am Fri (full day of work) until Sun midnight, about 7 hours of driving, also. Thank you caffeine. Around Sunday at 5, I realized I was out of it. No way was I driving. I had just gotten home, and vegged.

Breakdown was 3 hours in my car (the sh*y sleep) on Fri night (well, Sat morn: 2am-5am), and then the other 5 hours occurred between 5am Sun morn and 10am Sun morn. Was playing cards all night. :)
 
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Brenthoven said:
I wish I could remember, but semi-truck driver have a .04 DUI law, I think. It's drastically lower than the normal driver.
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Sounds right. Pilots are .04 (our company restricts it further to .02), and must have 8 hours from last drink to show time (again, ours restricts it further to 12 hours).

We are subject to the same regulations.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I wish I could remember, but semi-truck driver have a .04 DUI law, I think. It's drastically lower than the normal driver.

You take some cough medicine and you're at a .01, even N/A Beer still has alcohol in it, and will register.

I've driven drunk once. It was at a campground with friends (and we have known the owner for decades), and we had a sort of roundabout that only went through our campsites. Everyone took a turn at the wheel, and whoever wasn't driving basically guarded the roundabout, in case someone veered of the road (at 15 mph max, btw). I tell ya, that is one big ol' wakeup call to realize the impairment.

No idea of what anyone's BAC was, but that didn't matter. Once you experience that, or a simulation of that...hoo boy.
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.02 with a cdl, even if you arent driving a truck

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jerphisch said:
Your thread title would point to the fact that these goal posts are a movin'.
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If this board (unlike my home board) had the ability for the threadstarter or an admin/moderator to change the thread title it'd already be "241 per day".

If there is a way, please share and I'll update it.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Those were called Tuesdays in engineering school.
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Brenthoven said:
This was in college. I don't care to try 36 nowadays. Have pulled 24 hours since then,
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I used to work short-cycle rotating shift at the nuclear prototype for the Navy. This week days, next week swing shift, week after was mids (overnights). It's an ugly, stupid rotation, but did I mention Navy and government?

Day 1 of mids was fine; you can stay up all night that first night. But try to day sleep after that. It doesn't work. I found the data that, by shift that the crew was on, most operator errors happened on Day 2 of mids, and more specifically, second half of shift (0400 to 0800 -ish).

And let's not talk about trying to get turned back over from mids back to days (and sleeping nights).


I'm sure this is why CDL drivers have lower alcohol limits and are checked for sleep apnea.



But it's hard to test for "was sleeping"; it's far easier to test BAL.
 
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MarkEagleUSA said:
Drink all you want. Just don't subject others to you altered state.
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If you want to argue for a legal limit of.00, go for it. But don't tell me a .09 is just as dangerous as a .25.

That's like saying going 30 in a 25 is as dangerous as going 75 in a 25. Because after all, you're still breaking the speed limit in both situations.
 
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unofan said:
If you want to argue for a legal limit of.00, go for it. But don't tell me a .09 is just as dangerous as a .25.

That's like saying going 30 in a 25 is as dangerous as going 75 in a 25. Because after all, you're still breaking the speed limit in both situations.
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Dead because someone has hindered reflexes at .09 is as dead as someone who is killed by .25
You want to drink, drink.
Don't go looking for an excuse however because you weren't THAT drunk.

So much for the campaign to let one know "buzzed driving is drunk driving" :(
 
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mookie1995 said:
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Dead because someone has hindered reflexes at .09 is as dead as someone who is killed by .25
You want to drink, drink.
Don't go looking for an excuse however because you weren't THAT drunk.

So much for the campaign to let one know "buzzed driving is drunk driving" :(
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Where has he said anything of the sort? Might want to work on that reading comprehension.
 
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