Drugs and new drivers... Is it really THAT bad?

Dehydration is the issue.

 

Not sure on that but try and pound back an energy drink on a hot day and do manual labour for a while. It really gets you effed up. Weak, dizzy etc.

 

I think that's pretty ignorant. Someone who is going to drink energy drinks instead of water will still manage to get dehydrated without the energy drink. I drink them regularly while working in the heat, in fact most of time while working is the only time I like to drink them. But I make sure to stay cool and hydrated, and I don't have heat issues because of it, and I've done plenty of chaining and tarping above 110 degrees, and some up to a posted temperature of 117, no idea what the temps were over the blacktop parking lot surrounded by idling trucks.

 

It's not the employer's rules. It's a federal law that the employers must ensure is followed.

If you want to drive a CMV you must be clean on a drug test. No amount of arguing the point will change that, unless an impairment test is approved. As of now there is no legal way to test for THC impairment.

 

I have: generally not an issue n I handle like poster below. I can see how it could happen however.

 

There are many people who have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner for example.
They are drinking for the taste, or whatever the drink adds to the meal.

The ONLY reason to smoke pot is for its intoxicating effects.

 

Drinking for the taste is about like smoking weed for your cancer or anxiety. Just be honest about it. It's all about the intoxication.

 

I was thinking about that post during my rest time this afternoon.

I choose to say this to wrap that up for him. I am lawful disabled through honest and rightest wear and tear on my body and it's systems from 3 decades of trucking, much of which is old iron, no air ride etc. The drugs to me are a mercy in my last days however long God decides it will be.

I do not use illegal drugs. I had a taste of some early in life and found many of them like Pot not to be my flavor. Some of the friends who insisted in school to follow that life style does not have a place in my life since that time. I miss them, but as a Class A driver back in them days I required friends in my world not to do any drugs because I plan on being in Cincy by 9 am next am and don't need the stuff to screw me up or get jammed with the Law etc.

I have fought a righteous battle against dependancy and can understand why people who are not as tough will slide into addiction and beyond. Arkansas Jails are groaning with the sick who must withdrawal cold turkey and they will be sick for months if not years. I have always felt that there is a good way to do treating people for dependance through my recent experience in Medical Detox for one week plus two other weeks worth of non drug related testing various problems in my body that will probably kill me someday. But not just yet.

After the detox I had to decide what my future holds. Do I stay clean and live a bad life unable to get up? Or do I take a little bit under contract to stay within the dose limitations as needed each day and be fully functional? Or do I give up the medical people entirely, turn my back on everything and sink it all on the street doing illegal drugs for the last whoohaw before death or jail?

I chose the contract. At some point in the future that will turn into Hospice when it's time. But not until Im #### well good and ready to cross the rubicon for the enternal morning promised to all of us sinners when we are saved.

It's ok to tease me about being a druggie, but understand this. I am #### glad I am not trucking what with the damage my body has sustained and what the powerful medicines would do to my mind and nerves on bad days making that 40 ton vehicle a murder mass weapon.

But I do miss it and will always do.

 

You should put that to the test. Sit down to a good steak. and i mean a good steak, not some cheapo 20 dollar Applebees garbage, mortons or atleast ruth crix. Take a bite. Then order a good bourbon, with the flavor of the bourbon still in your tongue take another bite. Unless you've numbed your taste buds by smoking a pack a day you will absolutely see that certain alcoholic beverages enhance the flavor of food.

 

Man you paint a yummy picture.
I've never ate at mortons but if it's better then Ruth's Chris , I want one