{"id":5172,"date":"2020-12-19T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T12:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/?p=5172"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:26:47","slug":"having-a-christmas-tipple-what-van-drivers-need-to-know-about-driving-the-morning-after-the-night-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/having-a-christmas-tipple-what-van-drivers-need-to-know-about-driving-the-morning-after-the-night-before","title":{"rendered":"Having a Christmas tipple?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Christmas can be a busy time for couriers and van drivers, it is also a time when many of us like to let our hair down and enjoy a few drinks. This is also the time of year when police usually ramp up their drink driving campaigns in a bid to educate the public about the dangers of driving after drinking alcohol<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully most people get the message, but what about\nthe morning after? While you may feel well-rested the next day after having a\nfew drinks, there may still be high levels of alcohol in your bloodstream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are a van driver or courier and your job involves\ndriving from early in the morning until late at night, then you need to think\nabout the amount you drink the night before the day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the legal limit?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When we talk about drink driving, we often hear \u2018the\nlegal limit\u2019 being referred to. This means the ratio of alcohol to blood in\nyour body. For example, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the legal limit\nis 80mg per 100ml of blood. In Scotland, the limit is lower at 50mg per 100ml.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put this in real terms<\/a>, for a man to reach that limit, they would need to drink two pints of regular-strength beer, for a woman it would take slightly more than a pint of beer or a large glass of wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, police will usually advise people not to\ndrive at all after they have had a drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Won\u2019t the alcohol have left my bloodstream by the next\nmorning?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It can take many hours for alcohol to leave your\nbloodstream and if you have drunk an excessive amount the night before, then\nthere will still be high levels in the morning. Different factors can affect\nthis such as how much you drank and what time you stopped drinking, but a rough\nguide is that it takes one hour for your body to get rid of one unit of\nalcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A glass of wine or pint of beer can be around 2-3 units,\nmeaning it can take around three hours to clear your body, providing you don\u2019t\ndrink anymore after it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if you have an early start the next morning as a\ncourier or van driver, then you need to think twice about having that second\ndrink or when to stop drinking the night before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Won\u2019t some black coffee and a hearty breakfast do the\ntrick?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Coffee may help you stay alert while a full belly may\nhelp fuel your day, but the most effective way to get alcohol out of your body\nis to wait. That\u2019s because the only way alcohol leaves your body is when it is\nbroken down by your liver. The more drinks you have, the more work your liver\ndoes and the longer it takes. There is no way to speed up the process, so\nthat\u2019s why it is important to think carefully about how much you are drinking\nthe night before work and when you stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Christmas can be a busy time for couriers and van drivers, it is also a time when many of us like to let our hair down and enjoy a few drinks. This is also the time of year when police usually ramp up their drink driving campaigns in a bid to educate the public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5172\/revisions\/6135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deliveryquotecompare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}