Penalized for being honest.. Dot physical

Honestly is no longer the best policy. I tell them only what they want to hear. The DOT urine sample isn’t for illegal substance testing. They’re looking for sugar and protein.

 

To be blunt; you should have lied about smoking pot.
Now it's going to be a hassle getting back behind the wheel.
I'd go to another company real fast and try again; like tomorrow!
Find one that does urine test; not hair follicle test.
Are you in Alabama?
Rusty Dog Express might hire you.
Actually, you're in pretty good shape because you didn't fail a drug test.
"Have you ever failed or refused a drug test?" The answer is truthfully, "NO."

 

Honestly There is no place for honesty in trucking.

 

YOU by your own mouth branded yourself in the DOT world, Doctors as a drug user. Pot. Which is illegal for big trucks and illegal federally. Definately a controlled Susbtance which possession of without prescription or card from doctor is also illegal.

It stays in your hair up to a year. Weeks in your body fat and urine a while. You are literally dirty. So there is no point in testing you because you WILL come up dirty, hot, positive etc vs the MRO.

They can test whatever is in front of them or out of your body in a cup, blood or whatever. Hair too. If they did have a positive finding then their hands are tied. You are branded. And generally for those "Caught" with hot results have to undergo at your own expense a year long SAP designed to weed out addicts from the trucking industry permanently.





To get a doctor to certify that you do not (By your own admission) use drugs or have a addiction, dependance etc is to literally ask that doctor to take on the DEA at the Federal Level and vouch for you to be virtious and not a dependant, abuser, diverter, sales, felon, illegal drug user etc. etc etc etc. Most doctors are smart enough not to do this.

It will cost you a block of time in your life. You must choose to give up pot if you want trucking. You cannot and will not have both.

I applaud you being honest. That's good. At the same time that's bad. Especially when you are in fact doing something you know you should not. Or cannot legally.

 

Yeah that was a foolish mistake bro. There is the same question about “do you drink alcohol and if so how much”
Some people like to have a beer or 2 to unwind at the end of the night. But even still, you always check “no”
There is no reward for honesty on those physicals.
Yeah, some things could be a problem, like a medical condition. But if you smoked a little weed a couple months or a couple years ago. Or even had a sip of alcohol, don’t put that on dot physical. What were you thinking fella

 

this is all you had to say, not your life's story...

regarding #2...forget about it, you did not even get the DOT card


regarding #1....

you volunteered information that should not have been volunteered.

as said by a few others, honesty is not the best policy in trucking.

you should keep your darned mouth SHUTTY,,,,,,!!!!!!

let them find the weed usage in a the pre-employment drug screening.


move onto another job application/search.......

 

Integrity is shunned upon these days. It has effected my life tremendously this past year. Have to really be smart these days, and say the right thing, even if it is a lie. What happened to Honesty is always the best policy? How is one suppose to have Integrity, and get through life without being punished for it? What a messed up World we live in, feel really sorry for the generations down the road....

 

it's those future generations you feel sorry for, that are now the root cause of this BS world we live in, giving us the much misaligned "political correctness crowd"....

it is the influx of many from other countries, that have no ethics or morals, corrupting our world.

so feel sorry for us in the here and now, not the future.

 

No drugs never ,drugs and driver don't mix