Drug Test Negative - Still Fired?

First - Well said.
Second - Sorry to hear of your loss.

and third -To expound on the quoted part above to all; An instructor told me that we are regulated by the government, laws are enforced by LEOs but we are controlled by the insurance companies. Insurance plays a huge part in everything you do with trucking. In our litigious society one would be foolish to run a trucking company (or any company that deals with the public) without insurance. Let me tell you having dealt with insurance underwriters for awhile, the slightest thing can change your risk and affect your coverage/premiums/policy. Costing the company thousands in increased premiums or worse. How many people have had their insurance skyrocket (or even cancelled) for one ticket. Hiring "risky" drivers may very well negate their policy leaving them without coverage. Put the blame where it belongs. It's usually not the fault of the company because their hands are tied by the insurance underwriters.

 

I think that here is a good place for me to just have learned some good things. This and some other threads have certainly helped me define my own ideas more clearly, and I am grateful to everyone who posts here because it allows me to be a part of something larger than myself. I want also, to sincerely apologize for using the term "stonecasters". The fact that I didn't get my head taken off for that says a lot about the maturity of the other posters.

 

it was a "trying time" for me not to fly off at you......................

then only "god knows" i would have been "infractionized" again....................

 

Do you know what has happened here?

Through cool heads and the exchange of opinions and insight, we have been able to discuss controversy without it resorting to behaviors that occurs everywhere else.

This is the goal that we try to keep in these forums on a daily basis.

I am not offended by being coined a "stonecaster", because I've certainly been called much worse for holding onto the opinions and stances that I consider important to me.

People can agree sometimes. Sometimes they cannot. But, even in cases where people can agree to disagree, it's still a productive discussion.

I'm pleased as punch that you feel the way you do about these forums. It's the highest compliment I think that I have ever read in regard to our collective efforts to provide a decent place to congregate and to discuss.

 

Thank you.

That's it in a nutshell....

 

Are you sure about that? If so, I am going to notify Wiseone so that he can investigate. He is very sensitive on that issue, and you have to understand that the ads placed on this site are often bundled, with no control whatsoever as to content. Still, if there is such an ad being run, he'll dump the advertiser in a heartbeat.

I'm glad to hear this, and sorry at the same time that he is going through this. None of us are perfect.

God bless you. That's what he will need the most, and you are a good person to stand by him.

 

come back when you can and inform us of any "updates" to his/your situation, we would like to know.

 

OK my thoughts...This post kinda makes me think about the jon benet case and the guy that just admitted to killing her even though it was proven that he did not. I drink beer every now and then in a social atmoshere and don't consider myself a "drug user". I am perplexed that no one has talked about the worst legal drug that exist in the world today. It is a drug that is readily available and cheap....cigarettes:smt033 ....T

 

I have read all the opinions good and bad in this thread. Turbo My condolances, I know your pain, lost my lil bro in 2004 to what I believe to be an impaired driver.

But I decided to become a Professional Driver I also decided that using pot didnt match that decision. That decision was reinforced when I was in school and learned that I would be in control of a vehi9cle that would wiegh 30,000 lbs or more.
Furthermore 3 things happen when you smoke pot
1. You feel good like you can do anything
2. You become distracted and disorientated
3. You crash

THOSE THINGS DO NOT BELONG BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A SEMI