Drawn for a drug test, company has not booked it, what happens?

Trying to read the actual regulations and do it without error is a challenge for any company.

The best practices flyer FMCSA put out(link in post #17) clears up some of your questions.
But as has been alluded to, the FMCSA takes no prisoners in this area of the regulations.
Something similar to the IRS, you don't want to tangle with either one.

 

You should have driven to the truckstop, parked, then Uber/LYFT/ or cab to the clinic.

 

I thought the same would be required, until I read the document I posted(post # 17) from the FMCSA about best practices.

Apparently the company can set policies that allow a driver to use his tractor/trailer as a conveyance to get to the drug testing site.
Something analogous to the current FMCSA policies regarding finding a safe parking spot even if your ELD has indicated no more hours.

In other words, even the FMCSA doesn't cast all of these regulations in stone, there is some flexibility, as long as it is documented.

 

Correct.
There are at least 4 reasons for performing a drug test.
Pre employment
Random
Reasonable Suspicion
Post Accident.
The last 2 leave open the very real possibility that the driver may be impaired, therefore unable to drive safely to the test site in a truck
The first 2 the expectation is the driver is not a threat to safety if he continues driving a truck to the testing site.

 

Well, reckon I am obviously one too.

You may want to go ahead and save your money for the lawyer. The company covered it’s arse legally when they gave you the green and white regs book and probably had you sign something saying that you received it. They’re covered.
Here’s the deal, hand: You signed in at the clinic. As soon as you walked out the door without taking the random, the clinic HAD TO mark you as a refusal. They’re covered.

 

WOW the denial of personal responsibility is strong in this one

 

When I was driving the dispatch would always say “call the safety department as soon as you’re not under a load”

we all knew what that meant .
So we’d call safety and say , “I’m in X location , where do you want me to go for my drug test ?”
And they’d get pissed and say that dispatch wasn’t supposed to tell us it was for a drug test etc .

I’d reply : “ that’s the ONLY time we get told to call safety when we are not under a load is for the random drug test , it doesn’t take long to figure this out “

 

Gee. Where did @sonofsilence go?
I was looking forward to some more of his expletive laden advice.