A New Canaan, North Carolina town employee has been charged with a DWI that took place while he was on the job. The man is an 
employee of the New Canaan Highway Department, and he was driving an orange dump truck at the time the alleged DWI incident took place. The truck was reported to have been driven from the road, and was left behind about 15 feet from the road, leaning down a steep slope. Luckily a tow truck was able to free the truck and no one was injured.
The driver of the truck claimed to have lost traction on the ice, and the truck slid from the road; however, the police reported to have detected an odor of alcohol on him. When the police conducted field-sobriety tests, the man allegedly was thereafter charged with driving while intoxicated, and failure to drive in the proper lane.
In North Carolina, a commercial driver’s blood alcohol concentration (B.A.C) must never be above a 0.04. If the employee is above that set limit, he may be charged with a DWI. Legislation within the state of North Carolina propounds that it is unlawful for the operator of a commercial motor vehicle to drink and drive. The first offense results in a 10 day disqualification to operate a commercial vehicle, and the second and subsequent offense revokes the drivers commercial license altogether. Therefore, in North Carolina, there is a higher standard with regard to commercial drivers.
