How to report a drug using driver?

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    Finally, someone agrees with me. Are the roads any safer today with drug testing? Hardly,, I'm going out on a( weak) limb by saying, drugs weren't all that bad. People think drugs, oh, flying mushrooms turning into butterflys, running semis into church mini-vans,,just not so. The whole concept of drugs today takes on a different, more serious role, but back then, I never remember pileups, trucks running into the back of someone, FALLING ASLEEP, like the egg hauler, just didn't happen. Thanks to drugs? I realize to say that today, must seem monstrous to some, and with testing for running over an ant, I'd be afraid to do drugs and drive, but I don't think it makes them monsters behind the wheel. I too feel distracted driving is far worse, and that's okay? I just don't think drugs were as bad as made out to be, not to mention the gold mine in testing that happened. Again, I was a local/regional driver and never needed anything to stay awake except coffee,, or worse, awake on my off time, but I knew literally dozens of drivers with millions of safe miles that did drugs and made a pile of money too, ironically to pay for the drugs. You got your cheese to California and strawberries back in the 80s, partially thanks to drugs. Don't think so? You weren't there then. The industry would like to forget that, but that's the way it was.
     
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    You and people like you are why there is drug testing...thanks
     
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    Yes. Next question.
     
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    Just a minute, that's not fair, I never said I used the drugs, and your ignorance only labels you. I do agree, the reason for drug testing was because of drug users in trucks, but to implicate me as one of those, well, I can't say what I want and still be a member here. Besides, got a problem with drug testing? See how that can work the other way? Only the guilty need to sweat. Please be more careful with what you say.
     
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    Baloney, this mjd4277 here, with all the screw ups they post, shows us a different story, and all those people that drive their rigs over foot bridges, and run into stopped traffic, can probably test clean.
     
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    So pulling 130,000 drug using drivers off the road that are in the clearinghouse hasn't prevented one wreck? Wow! Yea, you are delusional. You really need to put the crack pipe away!
     
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    No called you anything nor even implied that you are a drug user...
    Calm down Karen.. this is a discussion board... you made an asinine statement with no basis in fact.
    Again. your statement makes no sense. I am not the one who was implying that the drug testing program was a waste of time and in so many words support drug users in the industry. Words DO mean things...
     
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