Question for watkins shepard drivers

Before i start, i want to say i have perused the forums and come to find that this is a rather sensitive topic, but nonetheless, i find myself in a situation require an answer. My situation is as follows:
I am 21 years old, and have applied at watkins shepard's training school for the november program. As you may notice, being 21, i am rather young and relatively fresh out of high school. Let it be known that during my high school career and some time after i have made some terrible choices that have been nothing but detrimental. As a result of this, I recently, after taking a look at the big picture, decided that it is time to man up, mature, and start a career. Over-the-road driving has been a dream of mine since I was a small child. Everything about it appeals to me. So, my problem is this: Because of my foolish choices to ingest certain illicit substances in my foolish past, and my knowledge that hair follicle tests (while not used by the DOT, but nevertheless i want to be absolutely sure) can indicate drug use years after one has ceased it, my question is this:

does watkins shepard perform a hair follicle test outside of the standard DOT urinalysis?

now, based on what i have read on this site (which, i have found very useful in other matters, and ultimately my decision to choose WS), im sure some of you would like to throw me the opinionated and overly subjective responses of "dont use drugs, then you dont have to worry!", "anyone who WOULD use drugs should never be on the road!", "youre screwed", etc., but please keep those to yourself, im only looking for responses from people who can objectively share an answer with me outside of opinions. i am a extreme advocate of "better safe than sorry" which is why i am spending the time to write this long, tedious post

but, the bottom line is this: I sincerely hope that stupid mistakes i made in my foolish and halcyon teenage years do not prevent me from making my life long dream a reality, and i truly hope that some of you can impart some of your knowledge on me.
if you read the whole thing, thanks very much. i look forward to your responses.

 

Point taken, but on the contrary, I may be "young and dumb", but i can tell you my decision to pursue a career in trucking is not a spur of the moment last resort; rather, as i stated before driving a rig has been a dream of mine since youth. as a kid, i used to ask my mom to stop at this one truck stop any time we passed it so that i could get out and look at the trucks up close haha. I can assure you i am NOT a druggie by any means whatsoever, i smoke a pack of light cigarettes a month, and that is the closest thing to "recreational drug use" i engage in. unfortunately i dont really have 3 more years to wait to start my dream either, i have a few grand saved up to get me by until i start driving, which is one of the good decisions i made in my youth haha. Im not sure how it was 20-30-40 years ago, but im almost positive a majority of people made plenty of poor choices in their teen years.

regardless, does w/s do hair tests?

 

thanks for the response. I do have very short hair. Do they take body hair in that case?

 

well i sincerely appreciate the serious reply. thank you. (ive always had short hair...i cant do the death metal thing, nor can i bring myself to have a ponytail) i dont know too much about the science of drug testing, forgive my questions, like i said, better safe than sorry, i just want to cover all my bases. i can lend my overzealousness for an answer to my "adolescent" desire to get on with my life as my youth has expired, and rather than most of my old "friends" who remain in that high school mindset, theres no place i want to spend my career more than in a truck.