Do they want us all bald? This is follicle testing. I can go with snipping a little piece of hair but not pulling out the roots. Perhaps at the beginning of your career as a driver and then when and only when you fail a urine drug screen. Not as a normal pre-employment, random and so forth testing procedure. With the average job hopper that would mean pre-employement testing every 6 months. Then the possible random of every month but normal average is about 2x a year. So every 3 months on average, you are getting follicles pulled from your head. Too invasive and I can’t agree with this ruling. I am all for drug screening and finding ways to stop drug usage/sales but this is not the answer. This is just abusive to the non-user.

Just another infringement by this communist style government trying to give other people work, (hair samplers, nurses, etc.), at our expense. Next they will make us hire one them to ride shotgun in our truck to make sure we do exactly what they want. What will it take to get this outrageous government to stop their actions against us in the name of safety. The government must start making ALL drivers abide by all the rules truck drivers have go by, in the name of safety. My god.

Not a PROBLEM as long as EVERY GOVERMENT employee
test right along with us and anyone wanting goverment assistance all on the same page

i have nver heard of such crazy shit just trying to make a living. Are all those people in Washington doing drugs. lmfao

My truck will be paid for by the middle of 2013. I’ve inrolled in collage and I am going to do something else after 27yrs of driving. I have had enough of these regulations,the bad drivers,the pigs and all the hoops ya have to jump through just to make a living out here anymore. while NOTHING gets done about how the 4wheelers drive around us,the Ship&Rec. can

hold you up for hrs with no recorse for the most part. Time to move on and let the Rookies and the Mexican’s take over. GOOD LUCK!!

College

I’m for it as the piss test cost me my driving career. I have nerve damage that cause problem with pissing . I offered hair ,blood,mouth swab . nope had to be pee.So now flagged as refused drug test on dac . and only had 6 months left till truck paid off lost everything.
I agree on all public and elected officials and people that get welfare should have to be drug tested also.

Oh yes, thank God they are doing this. 9 out of every 10 drivers are dope addicts, I would be one of the nine. Hell we haul more dope than freight. It just makes me warm and fuzzy knowing that the politicians are looking out for Americas interest.

To The Communist Pigs that started this ,,,,GO To HELL.

Given the arrogant, entitled and self serving way of our elected officials and the ata, they should be mandated into those very solutions they themselves prescibe. The burdens of safety will never be met with cheap labor and oppressive government, as those beat up foreign speaking trucks will attest.. CSA will only yield the evidence of the burdens we have always shouldered for too little money, hence the “driver shortage”. So long as we continue to be persecuted, we will continue to migrate. The witch hunt is over. Cheap and untrained and untalented individuals is all you will have left. Keep your head buried and that dragon head will continue to bite….Safety will come when you penalize those in society with the truly atrocious habits..namely 4 wheelers and politicians that should be on a bus….

Why don’t that surprise? This is all about total control and by time these people are done they are not going to get anyone to drive a truck. I wish I had an answer for you, but at the moment I don’t.
martym5@hotmail.com

They can take a sample from Armpit also…..

Smart Move and congrats!! There are 16 million illegal Aliens that they are filtering into these driving jobs…I do want to see a Dash Cam in the Face of THOSE goons and monitor anything THEY are doing…but Not American Citizens……..they should monitor the Towel Head and the Weback…since they have nothing better to do with their lives than to stick their nose in everybody’s business and try to control everyone….so the Rich man can have Obediant slave chumps…

Yep..those illegal alien drivers…are not providing 10 year work history like we are…and they have fake licenses under fake names…..so the “system” only dominates the American Citizen driver…I have worked in companies that employ illegal alien truck drivers WITH prison records from their home country…meheeko…..they also Train drivers to get their CDL…at the factory…everybody is speakin spanish……the place is owned by big name corporations..!! The rich man is able to get away with all this crap…..even Sherriff Joe and get the laws enforced without fighting the “lawmakers”…….trucking has become a nightmare……

So is urinalysis. Hair testing just cost a lot more which will end up being passed down to driver’s pay. If they really want to catch the drug dodgers they need to do roadside randoms when they do inspections.

DID YOU JUST ASK THAT? THE GOVERNMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN CONTROL OF COMMERCE. COMMERCE CLAUSE IN THE CONSTITUTION! HOW DO YOU THINK THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN FAVOR OF OBAMA CARE? THE PATRIOT ACT?!

Say, didn’t you know that the standing president sent transportation secretary ray LaHood(what a name for the job) to Mexico and signed off NAFTA? so….here come the replacements!

Reid Ribble has a small fleet of straight trucks in his roofing business. Will he exempt his business from the testing? He uses a lot of workers from south of the border. Would they all be able to pass?

SO TRUE….more monitoring to come…more testing…more and more and more and more….