Not a pot head

Personally I think it should be legalized and regulated like alcohol. Surely someone can come up with a test that tell within how many hours it has been used. Right now they use urine and that shows for about a month...

I don't think you should smoke and drive, but if you do it during home time and wait 24 hours, it shouldn't be a big deal.

 

Stop being stupid is what we ask. Calling someone a pothead is COMPLETELY different than calling them people what you did. IF you want to be so FREE, then go to our political site: http://www.politicalravings.com/ that was MADE for that stuff. This is a trucker site, that is a political site that was MADE for people like you...the free. So, please stop acting dumb and posting the same things after we asked you not to. Thanks.

 

thats one pretty red card you got there

 

Guess I am just blonde, or maybe I know the rules...why do you keep pushing the envelope HIDIVE? I am a left leaning independent from the south, but I do try to follow the rules and be politically correct...why can't you? I am a liberal at heart and a defense attorney at heart, but had to go into nursing because my father demanded it. I agree you have a right to free speech, but use it in a more positive way! Defend those who are trod upon and stand up for everyone's rights!

There are TOS that are available for all to read and follow. If you don't agree, go to another forum???

 

Yup ... you him and 20,000+ others.

 

Depends on which "DOT" you refer. There is my former employer, the USDOT. Every state has a "DOT". The cities of Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other larger cities have a "DOT". Most people just say "DOT" when they are unsure of what they are speaking. Being a new driver this is excusable however these three letters can mean many different eitities. Drivers therefore need to be more specific. The problem is that most drivers fail to comprehend this.

Further, within the USDOT there are several different entities. There is the FMCSA for motor carrier, FAA for air, FRA for rail, US Coast Guard for water (yes the Coast Guard is/was a part of the USDOT.....this may be different since the revamping in 2003 or so), the NTSB, RSPA (now PHMSA for haz mat), FHWA, NHTSA, and many others. The state and local "DOT's" are also broken down into entities. You probably see now why I find it disturbing when someone merely says "The DOT", considering for whom I worked before I retired.

To answer your question; not at this time however there is a new rule from the USDOT/FMCSA that will require positive drug & alcohol results, as well as other data to be input into a database under the new rule. It will also maintain data on accidents, moving violations, possession of drugs & alcohol in a vehicle, license suspensions, etc. I look for its' inception before the end of 2009. The rule mandates states & other business to input data on all drivers holding a CDL. The database will be owned by the USDOT/FMCSA and will be accessible online through the internet. It will be password protected and will be a very secure website. It is mandated in this new rule that motor carriers research a potential driver through this website. It could also be that motor carriers will use this database when making their annual review of all drivers as mandated in a different rule. The FMCSA will probably contract out the maintenance (maintaining) of the database to a company such as USIS/DAC.

 

Oooh!

you do know I hate you, right?



Oh, and the USCG is now part of the Department of Homeland Stupidity. I'm glad my wife and I left before that little bit of insanity came about.

 

eat your heart out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They'll probably turn me down like some already have. When you show on your curriculum vitae that you were one of those bums that wrote those big time civil penalties. It's like a red flag in their nose. Also, at my age people are apprehensive as well. It is illegal because of age but it happens all the time.

Roger, Re. Dept of Stupidity: like you can't take trim clippers on a commercial aircraft because of that little file. But when we went to survival school B-4 deploying to the S. China Sea we learned how to kill with a credit card and these are not required to be in your luggage or not in your possession. Stupidity is absolutely correct. Sometimes I wish I'd never sold my twin engine Piper Aztec. All I had to do was put the luggage away, pre-flight the aircraft, warm up both power plants, and then leave.

 

Lol

maybe I'll hunt them down and apply as well. Though I doubt they'd let me drive the choo-choo, and that's what I'd want.

I'm not old enough to worry about blatant age discrimination. My folks are, but it's less of an issue in academia so long as you keep current in your field.

I didn't attend that kind of survival training - mine was aimed more at peacetime stuff (Like, getting dropped off 200 miles from anywhere with just what you have in your pockets - and living for 2 weeks).
However, a bit of martial arts training shows clearly that *anything* can be used as a personal weapon - pencils, bobby pins, belt-buckles.. heck, even long fingernails! Let's ban Lee Press-on Nails!

Or make everybody fly nekkid (oh, there's a thought to make you ill for weeks)

I can follow the logic (though I disagree with it) behind banning crowd-control weapons (guns, mace, etc), but just can't wrap my mind around the logic for banning one-on-one weapons.

But that's just me. I'm odd.

 

No Big Boys or Challengers there. Probably just old EMD SW9-1200's or maybe some EMD GP-7's.