Should yearly hair follicle testing be mandated as a condition of retaining CDL

Since this thread started out about hair follicle testing and some have mentioned alcohol use being a problem. Should the govt design a hair follicle test that registers alcohol usage for the last 90/180 days and should we just expect nuns to become truck drivers?

 

Nuns as truckers..??

well, that can be Habit forming.....

 

The lines get a bit blurry dont they?
I would rather have a driver on the road that occasionally smoked the pots off duty than a full blown alcoholic that drank a gutfull at every legal opportunity

 

I agree.

 

I’ve been driving around CO for 2 days now and I’ve yet to see all the stoned drivers wrecking all over the place… I mean, if hair testing was a thing, surely, I would then see all their carnage on the road right? I’m heading to Billings to drop some mail…maybe I’ll get a peek of all these drivers that are forcing regulators to take action against them.

 

Those are 4-wheelers. Not truck drivers. Two completely different things, and two completely different scenarios. You have a whole lot bigger margin of error before you cause an accident in a 4-wheeler than you do in a tractor-trailer. More times than not, an accident in a tractor-trailer is going to be a serious accident with serious damage. And when the attorney's find out if the truck driver was high when the accident occurred, they are going to take him for everything he's worth. If there's any injuries, they're gonna bury him under the jail. If drugs are found in his system, doesn't matter how old it is, if they are found in his system, they will hang him to dry. Drugs will never be legalized on a federal level because there's too much of a liability risk. If we ever get to the point where drugs are legalized across the board, we will have entered into the realm of WROL and TEOTWAWKI.

 

WROL: Without Rule Of Law. Looking at the way things are going these days, I'll say we're just about there regardless.
TEOTWAWKI: The End Of The World As We Know It. Chris is being just a bit melodramatic if not histrionic.

 

Just because there are traces of a substance located in the human body doesn't mean that that same human body is impaired to perform a certain safety related task.

And , because of the aforementioned skewed results from certain ethnic groups ( can I even say that?)
And the trend to make this product available recreationally in more and more jurisdictions

Makes it nearly impossible for this proposed regulation to see the light of day.

 

Yeah let’s do that. Let’s add yet another requirement.

How ridiculous. Of all the problems in the world not just in trucking today hair follicle testing to keep a CDL wouldn’t even make my top 1 million!

 

30% (21 people) voted yes. God help us.