Hey Crazy Canuk,
You are right but unfortunately this was part of the Regan years[thank Regan kids] as far as the congress goes where have you been,test this Gods how dare you, then if they did a lot of drug dealers and doc's would be out of business!!

OUR BASIC RIGHTS!!!!!!!!! WHAT RIGHTS???????????? HELL ALL THIS TIME i THOUGHT WE ARE IN A COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND JUST ACCEPTED IT!!!!
I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD RIGHTS, WHERE HAVE THEY KEPT THEM HID??? I WANT ONE

I consider speed limiters screwing with people's rights .

Why?
Just because they have used drugs?
What if they're not under the influence at the time they're tested?
Where is the harm of having USED a drug, if they're not under the influence of drug(s) while performing their duties? Cocaine is pretty expensive. More likely they'd use meth. NopE!
It sure isn't funny. Neither is being fired for using pot on one's time off --- weeks ago, and no longer under the influence.
Overkill?
I think so.

But it DOES! I'm not convinced that's true.
More like the gubmint tryin' to keep us under their thumb(s) Uhhhh, HellO!
It's doesn't seem to matter what you, or others think is fair. The gubmint deems it so and dictates the rules for us to follow --- along with the insurance carriers who have been spooked by gubmint misinformation.

IF they "hear" they ain't listening.
The facts and the truth are out there, IF they're interested in learning. BINGO.
Labeled --- guilt by understanding the TRUTH of the matter.

Meanwhile, those who pass laws demanding that WE be tested, also demand that THEY not be tested.
Why?
Invasion of THEIR privacy without due cause.
Go figure.

IMO, if ANYone in a position to potentially harm others while performing their duties and exhibits odd behavior, as in possibly under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, --- by golly --- TEST 'em post haste.
Otherwise, leave 'em alone.

What's next?
Sexual practices and/or preferences?
Goin' through our trash at the curb, lookin'
for beer bottles?
You MIGHT be is the same as you ARE?

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I completed a sap program cost a lot of money. results are have fun finding a company to hire you. I have passed several drug test since. Most companies tell me 3 years 10 years or not at all, no tolerance. In short sap programs are BS and don't do anything but take your money. If any body knows of a decent company renegade or other please let me know. Thanks

As drivers our rights are violated daily.

Complaining about it here doesn't change a thing. Start writing to congress, I can't do this by myself.

I don't do drugs. Never have, never will. But at the very minimum companies should be required to pay us for the time taken to drop what we're doing and drug test.. That's at the minimum. If they want us to jump through hoops, fine, we should be compensated for it.

There are far too many intelligent people out there driving trucks. We're not all the dumb hicks that the government makes us out to be, if we stand up and start writing some of this very constructive, well thought out information in letters to congress or other various government agencies we will be heard, not until then. These people have 'more important' things to do than to google what we think, we have to take it to them, and only then will they care.. IF then, but after a while they will have to wake up.

What you do on your off duty time is your business. Once you climb into a commercial vehicle to drive you must be clean of drugs and have an alcohol content of less than 0.04. I didn't make the law, sorry.
It's not an invasion of your privacy to make you take a drug test. You are performing a safety sensitive job that is a privledge. You don't have to do it, you can work somewhere else that doesn't require drug testing.
There is no way around it, if you're a truck driver you will be drug tested.