Can a person stop at a grocery store on the way home from work if driving on a restricted permit?
July 5, 2009 | Safety
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Re: “Can a person stop at a grocery store on the way home from work if driving on a restricted permit?”
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Only if you are stopping for a six pack.
If he gets stopped coming in or out it’s his butt. If a cop KNOWS he’s a problem and see’s him it’s a problem.
Breaking the law got him here; time to grow up and start obeying the rules.
Sounds like a jerk to me. Maybe you and your family should disown him
Although I understand your frustration, when saying that you and your family are tired of being your brothers’ “taxi”, I also understand that the law says that a provisional permit (like the one your brother carries), only allows the person to drive where the judge has allowed the driver to go. If it says on it that he can only go to home & work and vice-versa, then that is all he is allowed to do with it.
I would suggest that you inform him that it can be taken away again—most likely permanently—if an officer happens to pull him over and find that he’s not supposed to be doing unnecessary stops like that.
I would also remind him that the reason his license was taken away as a punishment to his recklessness, and to not take advantage of it.
If you’d like to prove to him/need more information, I would look at your state’s DMV website for more on that.
In Wisconsin they give you an occupation permit and it only lists your legal hours to drive. Included in those hours are time for church, grocery shopping, counseling /doctors appointments, and child care duties. You have tp specify the hours you want in advance of getting permit. You can only drive about 50 hours per week. But you best not drive outside your hours or be drinking or you’ll lose it, possibly forever.
Depend on what the restrictions are, going to grocery is well within reason. The restrictions should be in a booklet, or papers they gave him .