It's 'exceedingly rare' for a plow driver to be arrested for drunken driving, two state agencies said on Friday.
Prosecutors in Fairbanks have charged an Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities plow driver with drunken driving on the job.
The foreman told the trooper he was concerned that the driver was drunk. The driver, identified as Glynn in the affidavit, first said he hadn’t consumed alcohol since “a couple of years ago,” then changed to “maybe yesterday.”
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