Companies or small carriers that hire SAP drivers

Please save yourself a headache. You get in door but no miles and trucks are old

 

No SAP people

 

19 years accident free, 3 million miles, mechanic that's proud to say I've only had a truck on a hook 2 times. Sap program on step 5. Positive test was June 18th 2023. Live near San Antonio Texas but also have a house near Springfield Illinois. Looking for a job running regionally.

 

This was my impression, but if a company wouldnt hire you, then what is the point?

 

The trick is to find a company that will hire a SAP driver before all the pee tests are done to satisfy the SAP/Clearing house requirements.

 

Let's approach this from a different point of view. Everyone affected by this RTD pee tests recommended by the SAP but can't find a job because u are a SAP driver- Some attorney needs to step up and start a class action against the way the Clearing house is addressing this RTD procedure. Anyone know if any good lawyers who would take this on? Chinatown, you seem to know where to look-- any ideas?

 

Good luck with that. Even before the clearinghouse, companies weren't supposed to hire a driver that has a drug/alcohol event for a minimum 3 years. That was law then and it's law now. That's why drivers are having such a hard time. I'm not so sure that they even truly need a SAP program. If 3 years passes, then completion of SAP doesn't really matter. It feels like its a bit of lie that if you complete SAP, then you can go right back to work. Yet the SAPs around the country are getting paydays. The reality is, the market is thin to nonexistent if you've had a drug or alcohol event in the last 3 to 5 years. I had one in 2011, and it took me 8 years to get back with a reputable company. If I knew the rules then, it probably would have only taken me 5.

 

I agree with you. That is why I think every SAP driver that is having to deal with this needs to get together and file a class action against the Clearinghouse and what they deem is necessary for a driver to be able to go back to work. I just spoke with a trucking company representative about what the driver is supposed to know and not know about the Return to Duty pee tests to satisfy the RTD process. My SAP got onto me because I was given a copy of her letter sent to the trucking company I was looking at going to work for that had the number of unannounced observed tests I was suppose to do for the year. She was pissed. So now I talk to another company rep and she just now told me I have the right to know that information. So who is correct here. These SAPs are making major bucks as are the RTD companies licensed to do the classes. And the drivers are suffering for it. That doesn't even count the employees in other transportation jobs who are going thru the same thing.

 

You can file a class action lawsuit against the clearinghouse. It won't do much. I don't even know why they had to create the clearinghouse. The market was thin for drivers even before they came up with that. It isn't even so much the companies. If the insurance won't ok it, then that's what decides the company's requirements. The reality is, drivers just have to stay clean if they're gonna do this work. I agree that there needs to be a better way to get these guys back to work, but if a company can find dozens more who are clean, why wouldn't they go that route?