Drug testing

I find it interesting I saw this comment a few minutes ago. Last night I was talking to a guy who was sent home from orientation because he did not come prepared and will be going back at a later date. He asked me why does it seem a carrier wouldn't get too deep into the orientation until the urine testing is done. I explained 382.301(a) to him. I then told him very few carriers use the exception found there. They can't allow you to do your driving test until they get these results back.

I am not attempting to be pedantic with this reply. It sometimes astounds me that people seem to not understand this.

 

I assume he intends to go clean from here on out.

 

I thought Har is kinda like tree rings. There record is there as long as the hair is.

 

No they only take an inch and a half, more than that costs more$$$$

 

Head hair typically must be at least 1.5 inches long. Otherwise body hair is used. My research indicates that drugs are detectable for a longer period of time in body hair.

I quit using cannabis for an entire year before I went into truck driving with shoulder length hair. At orientation, the person collected a sample of my hair and measured off 1.5 inches of the most "recent" hair, cut it and discarded the rest.

Cutting the hair and allowing it to grow back fresh is not necessary. My shoulder length hair had been growing for well more than a year.

The key is to actually stop using cannabis for an extended period of time, which many users are unable to do. I never use cannabis when I am employed as a truck driver, and if I go back to driving I will abstain for a full 30 days to pass the urine screen.

In truck driving school I took my initial urine screen for the CLP then I got rando'd about a week later while in school. Passed no problem of course.

As far as people not liking that some people use cannabis when not employed as a driver, that's not my problem.

 

I don't care if people use or not. I am very irritated the drug users think their opinion about the regulations & their wish of how the world should change for drug users is what everyone needs to read. Drug tests are IQ tests. If you are going to be tested & fail, you failed an IQ test. Complaining or describing HOW THE WORLD SHOULD WORK doesn't change your score on the IQ test.