Randomness of randoms

The time limit is when the driver is informed to go test. The office may know for days, and wait for driver to be where test can happen

 

Once with Landstar I got call asking if i still on Michigan.
Told them I hadn’t been to michigan in months.
They asked where i was, I told them Gary, IN.
They made me do a random there with a high value load left in the parking lot in Gary.

Couldn’t leave the building and it was packed with other trucks and the lead one had ‘shy bladder’ so none could leave the lot for 3 hours until he could leave the building, after giving sample, you know all truck drivers are boozers and drug addicts, right?
You leave building you’ll be wrote up as a refusal and one place, national med test, will only allow you a couple swallows of water from, because any more water will “dilute the positive sample”

 

Everything is always the drivers fault, it certainly won’t be the dispatcher whom forgot to tell you in a timely manner.

 

We receive our random draw list and then have almost 3 months to get the drivers in for a test. That gives us plenty of time to schedule them to be in an area that is easy for them to stop and get it done. The clock doesn't really start until the driver is notified that they have been selected, then the driver has to report in a reasonable amount of time to the testing location and not leave until the process has completed.

If coworkers have knowledge of who has been chosen for randoms before the chosen drivers, then someone is safety or dispatch is breaking the regulations.

 

we could always tell you had been selected when dispatch would tell you to call safety department when you were not under a load .

the only time that dispatch ever asked you to call safety when you wernt under a load , was for safety to tell you , you had been selected for a random drug test .

 

The company I work for now, I got drug tested as part of the orientation process, that's normal. Then I got "randomed" 2 days later. I walked into the place and the girl looked at me and said "You're back?" I said yea, apparently it's a random. She started laughing at the absurdity of it all. I told my company if you "random" me again anytime soon I quit. I haven't been back for a drug test since and that was March of 23.

 

I personally like to get picked "randomly "
It gives me a chance to catch up on my current events via the magazines and there is a Starbucks next door.
And we get paid for ours so..