drug testing for owner operator - timelines

So what happens if you are in out of the country for 2 months snorting Coke with Colombian Hookers and you get a Email that you need a test ?

 

Ha. If you are out of the country for 2 months snorting coke with hookers, I don't think you need to worry about coming back to work. Delete.

 

Apparently, being "on the road" is no excuse. There are testing centers nationwide, and I think you have like 2 or 3 hours to report to one.

 

Guys, this is an old forum, but I wanted to bring this up for any new O/O's out there that are OTR guys that are out for 2 and 3 weeks at a time. The worry is them only mailing the notice to your home address and you not receiving it until it's far to late after you get back from being on the road.

It's 2022. If you are in a consortium that does NOT send a letter by mail, also and email, and also a cellphone call, then you are with the wrong one. Get into another one. Here is another thing you can do if you are real paranoid and want your t's crossed and i's dotted. I do this two times per year. I get a nail test I know, paranoid, right? I get finger nail testing 2 times per year from Lapcorp on my own. I pay this out of my own pocket. It has nothing to do with the consortium. It costs 120 bucks per test, but nail tests go back a minimum of the past 6 months and sometimes up to 9 months. I do this as piece of mind just in case heaven's forbid you had a corrupt psychopath at the lab who literally is just messing with tests, or you get some clerical era or technicality in reporting, or you get a lazy ##* at the consortium who dials the wrong cell phone number when notifying you (they miss one of the digits) or the email they send is a typo and one letter or number is off. Do not let something like this ruin your career. If you do a nail test every 6 months, you have a drug test that covers 6 months. If for some God unknown reason you had one of things above go wrong, you will be covered. You could dispute the test and you would be fine as having showed not just the one nail test, but imagine when you build up 3 or 4 years worth of negatives every 6 months. You will win that dispute.

Disclaimer- if you are doing drugs, well obviously that is a whole other ballgame. You would be waisting your time getting nail tests. I have done this for years as a peace of mind, and it takes errors committed by OTHER people OFF the table. Again, if you are doing drugs though, then that's a whole other conversation.

 

Do you go somewhere and they clip your nail to do the test?

If you clip it and send it somewhere, who’s to say that is really your nail?

Either way, sounds like a giant waste of money to me.

 

Seems more like slave mentality than paranoia.