Booze bus

Booze bus

A booze bus is a mobile truck designed for rapidly assessing the blood alcohol concentration of motor vehicle drivers in large numbers. Operated by various police services in Australia, they allow main arterial roads such as freeways to be blocked, with all or most drivers sampled for compliance with drunk driving laws. They are commonly used outside popular nightspots to trap drivers who might illegally drive home drunk. The vehicle itself is not used to test all drivers. Multiple test points are set up on the highway and drivers are breath tested in their own vehicles through the wound down window. Drivers failing this test will be taken to the bus for processing.

In Victoria, as of 2007, the concept has been extended by making all booze buses also "drug buses", capable of testing drivers for a number of illicit drugs such as cannabis.

In Western Australia, where booze buses have been used since 1995, all police vehicles are now equipped with instruments to test Blood Alcohol Content (BAC), thus the coining of the slogan "Every police car is a booze bus"


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  • booze bus — noun Police vehicle used for administering blood alcohol tests (to drivers), generally a mid size bus converted or fitted out for the purpose. (Introduced in New South Wales from 17 December 1982.) …   Wiktionary

  • Booze bus — police vehicle used for catching drunk drivers …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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  • booze — by 1768, to drink a lot (v.), variant of M.E. bouse (c.1300), from M.Du. busen to drink heavily, related to M.H.G. bus (intrans.) to swell, inflate, of unknown origin. The noun is recorded by 1821, perhaps 1714; reinforced by name of Philadelphia …   Etymology dictionary

  • booze — [bo͞oz] vi. boozed, boozing [earlier bouse, bowse < MDu busen; akin to MHG bus, a bloating fullness; ult. < IE * bhōu , var. of base * bheu , to grow, swell: see BE] Informal to drink too much alcoholic liquor n. Informal 1. an alcoholic… …   English World dictionary

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  • booze — [13] This word seems to have been borrowed on two distinct and widely separate occasions from Middle Dutch būsen ‘drink much alcohol’ (which some have connected with Middle High German būs ‘swelling’). In the 13th century this gave Middle English …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • booze — vb, n (to drink) alcohol. On the booze may mean habituated to alcohol or on a drinking binge. The word originated in Middle English as bousen, from the Middle Dutch and Flemish busen, a word based on the root bus , meaning swelling …   Contemporary slang

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