Random DOT BREATHALYZER tests now?

I'm pretty sure there are two lists they choose from.
One list is the entire driver pool, and the other are what might be considered 'at risk' drivers.
The latter seem to get a lot more random tests.

2 weeks after going solo I crunched a fender while backing into a dock. Didn't see a low yellow pole on my right side.
For the next year I had a random several times. 2 week intervals, 1 month certainly, never more than 2 months. Probably at least a dozen randoms that year.
At least 2 were just as I went on duty from home time.

After that I might go 6 months to a year between them.
Then I snagged a low hanging wire with my trailer, and the whole thing started again - although not quite as often. That was at around my 5 or 6 year mark with the company.

And right now, at 10 years in, I can not actually remember when my last random was.
Early this year or late last year, I think.

 

The company I work for tells us at orientation that they have to test 20% a month or something like that. Which is weird because in 5 years I've only ever been tested the 3 times I've gone through orientation. Never once while anywhere else.

I think that their policy of if you take 30 days off you have to go back through orientation is for reasons like "we want to drug test you" and they have so many students go through every month that they never have to test the actual drivers who have been there for a while.

 

Thats not how it works, or that's not how it should work.

302.385(m) A driver shall only be tested for alcohol while the driver is performing safety-sensitive functions, just before the driver is to perform safety-sensitive functions, or just after the driver has ceased performing such functions.

 

LOL sometimes I feel like I am the only one in the OOIDA consortium and I am paying them to abuse me!