Preliminary Breath Test Logs Strike Again
Carroll, Carroll County, Iowa. A commercial vehicle driver’s driving privileges were spared and the Operating While Intoxicated accusation was dismissed outright after it was discovered that the preliminary breath test (PBT) log did not comply with Iowa requirements. A preliminary breath test device is the breath test that law enforcement requests out on the road, prior to making a decision to bring a driver in for further testing. It does not have all of the built-in safeguards that the DataMaster breath test has at the station. Because of what the court has described as “inherent unreliability” of the PBT, law […]