Drug testing help!

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by HighwaySuperTramp, Jan 13, 2018.

  1. HighwaySuperTramp

    HighwaySuperTramp Medium Load Member

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    Talked to him, he apologizes and refuses to do anything else. I am trying to get him to admit a false test. Otherwise it could be a 22 week wait to see a urologist. And in 4 business days they register a fail and I can't work until I complete a SAP program.
     
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  3. HighwaySuperTramp

    HighwaySuperTramp Medium Load Member

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    Meanwhile I have pissed 5 times already today since 6 am
     
  4. Jazz1

    Jazz1 Road Train Member

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    Is this test so you can work in the USA? I would go to supervisors house tonight and convince him a retest would be in the best interest of both parties.
     
  5. not4hire

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    It isn't the lab making the determination, it is the MRO who is a licenced physician.

    Medical Review Officer

    Medical Review Officers (MRO) are licensed physicians who have been trained and certified to review the lab results and to validate whether a test is positive. MROs receive laboratory confirmed urine drug test results; determine whether there is a legitimate medical explanation for a laboratory confirmed positive, adulterated, or substituted result; and review and report a verified result to the designated employer representative (DER) in a timely and confidential manner. Regulations concerning MROs and the verification process are found in 49 CFR Part 40 Subpart G.

    Find more specific information for medical review officers >>

    Updated: Thursday, March 13, 2014

    Medical Review Officer
     
  6. HighwaySuperTramp

    HighwaySuperTramp Medium Load Member

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    Work period. If I fail I cannot work until I meet their requirements
     
  7. HighwaySuperTramp

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    And COHR told him that I had plenty of fluids and suggested something was wrong with my kidneys. Yet they refused to follow procedure in giving me fluids.
     
  8. HighwaySuperTramp

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    Update:

    I lost everything. Truck and company, I've gone bankrupt and after all that happened I finally proved it to the MRO and he reversed his final ruling...

    Spent months trying to find a lawyer and none will bite since I can't afford retainer. So I'm through, I took a few months off work to gather myself and now I'm working for a small company helping him build his dream while I sort out legal issues in my life. I will be taking people to court, but not for everything, just enough to get my life back on track.

    Final tally when I went bankrupt: $215,000.
     
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  9. x1Heavy

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    Sir,

    I celebrate your reversal. Take this time of relative quiet to document your targets in Court before you attack so to speak. Be very careful to take on those who are pretty clear cut in the situation vs yourself.

    Bankrupcy is bad, but in this temporal world to use a bad fitting term, is literally temporary. Not the end of the world. If you were to see the medical side of my billing that I wrestle with every month I am also bankrupt but do not trigger that within our Courts just yet because of SSA Rules related to that.

    It would be good to use this time of quiet to collect your thoughts and determine what you cherish in life and then go after it when you get rested and ready to do battle.

    I spent some time writing and I apologize for the excessive detail to some of it. This so called war on opiates is a problem. I was speaking with a relative about our local ambulance service on steel suspension on US 67 to the hospital and every plate was a strike of excessive pain on the joint. Not a drop of anything was given during that ride. They did have a airride wagon, but that is reserved for obese patients 500 pounds or so.

    I feel fortunate that I have gotten hardened to pain, it does not bother me anymore like it never really did in trucking long ago. But I can tell you for every one of me, there must be hundreds wailing in need of medicine all the way there every day. Our Society has gone derailed from what they were before in helping people to a place where no one gets the kind of help they need at all for fear of enforcement or testing against them. And so the weak must perish.
     
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  10. not4hire

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    Thanks for the update, but really sorry to hear of the outcome.

    Was it not possible to put the truck to work somewhere else... even a Canada-only carrier whereby the testing would not have been required?
     
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  11. HighwaySuperTramp

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    Unfortunately no. I was uninsurable for anything other than city work with my equipment. And it would have to be a company that doesn't do any interprovincial at all..

    I had no option and no money to put it on anywhere.
     
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