Non CDL ADHD

If you are abusing it, you may find yourself with a positive. Be sure you have the prescription and a note from the doctor (Signed by same with his DEA number) that prescribed stating that you are expected to be able to perform the public safety job.

FTA Drug & Alcohol Regulation Updates - Issue 40, page 6

 

The word is simple. "To Abuse" means to enjoy the medicine effect for pleasure. As in addiction. For example. Some pain patients get in trouble when they use all 90 doses within say 10 days into their monthly 30 day contract. Then they are called in for a random test and asked where are the rest of the medicines for your full month? They don't have it because they abused it. And so. They are branded addicts and are placed either into methadone or another type of rehab or branded unreliable and removed completely from pain relief and forced to live out their lives in pain without anything stronger than aspirin.

Eventually they are dead from fentanyal in illegal drugs from the street trying to get cheap relief.

Does that help?

If you are on a low dose... try to terminate taking it. Trucking is one of the most stressful things a person can be subjected to in life and it's really getting close to where smoking and coffee is verboten in the industry with the no tolerance for anything that passes your blood-brain Barrier and alters your mind while driving.

 

smoking and coffee not allowed??!!

 

It's getting to that point. I wrote that in a semi sarcastic manner. But sometimes given enough time words are prophetic.

 

If you are driving a non-CDL CMV you are not required to drug test. If your employer is testing you this is a none DOT test.

Again to stop the arguments on this I post this from part 383. It defines what a CMV is for the purpose of testing. At the bottom is a chart. I would however highly recommend you have valid prescriptions for all these meds.



Commercial motor vehicle means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in commerce to transport passengers or property if the vehicle

(1) Has a gross combination weight rating or gross combination weight of 11,794 kilograms or more (26,001 pounds or more), whichever is greater, inclusive of a towed unit(s) with a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of more than 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds), whichever is greater; or

(2) Has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of 11,794 or more kilograms (26,001 or more pounds), whichever is greater; or

(3) Is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; or

(4) Is of any size and is used in the transportation of materials found to be hazardous for the purposes of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 5103(b)) and which require the motor vehicle to be placarded under the Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR part 172, subpart F).

 

Most Employers have some sort of Insurance. Many are participating in drug pools.

Trucking in particular is ruled by insurance. Even decisions to be hireable or not hireable in some cases are decided by them not the employer hiring you.

The Non cdl part tripped me up. Moose reminded us all on that so that's a good thing. If you were however operating as a full CDL trucker interstate or intrastate and had that medicine there probably will be a problem of some sort.