Got hit with a FMCSA random drug test but facility is closed!!

When I get popped for a random, I have 30 days.

 

Your boss is a moron.
You don’t have the privilege of waiting months to get it done. Your boss is notified quarterly and he has the flexibility of 3 months to notify you. Once notified, you’re required to go take the test immediately.

As with the previous posters reply..it’s absolutely not correct. No one gets the privilege of waiting one or two months.

Trust me, I’m a certified tester at my company

 

thats what our company said, do it on your way in. We had 2hrs to get it done.
We are a Pharmaceuatical Company.

 

Just wanted to add.
I don’t know how tight you’re with your boss so take it as you wish.

At any point now he could put it in the clearinghouse as a refusal and turn your life into a living nightmare. Granted the facility was unexpectedly closed so that can cut you some slack but, I’d be there tomorrow camped out waiting for them to open.

Even owner opps like me, once notified via quarterly have to go take the test immediately. There’s another way around it for OO’s and that’s to assign someone else as the DER (I assigned my wife) she can now use her best judgment to notify to test.

 

Well, not much can be done except test out as soon as possible.. once the facility reopens. Was quite ridiculous that the OP’s boss sent him in this kind of weather.
Technically he had until the end of March to notify the OP to get tested.

 

The whole testing system is stacked against drivers who work for larger by the book companies.
Small family type companies can skirt the system and never have to worry about anything.