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

if you arent kidding, please explain your thought process, alcohol is legal and we dont have 100% drunk truckers driving 100% of the time. Is it your contention that:

A. 100% of everyone likes marijuana?
B. No one has any self control and dont know how to just not do drugs before and during driving?

 

That statement makes me wonder which of us has a better safety record , the US or Canada

 

Yea I have seen where they are working on it but yes agreed

 

Well drinking alcoholic beverages is legal during off time and 100% of truckers aren't drunk so ... Also I know they are working on a THC tester similar to the breathalyzer so when that happens I don't see much difference.

 

i don't believe we can compare the 2 countries.

maybe we just don't hear the troubles they have up there, compared to all the news we have down here.

i say keep it illegal for the USA truckers.

i see no good of this to allow them to smoke off duty, as i DO see many smoking while doing the job.

 

well, that was a mouthful....

 

How far back can a hair follicle drug test go? The testing interval would be have to be shorter than that in order for it to serve as any kind of a deterrent.

Another strategy would be to require hair follicle testing as part of the post-accident testing protocol.

 

should be:

pre-employment

random

post accident

anytime the driver comes back from vacation

or a long holiday weekend

or after a long recovery from say an operation