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Opioid bill asks DHS for progress on guidance for driver hair-sample drug testing
2015’s FAST Act highway bill directed DHS to develop guidelines within a year for drug testing drivers via hair sample as an alternative to urine-sample tests. However, nearly three years later, no such guidelines have been produced.
October 25, 2018
Business
7 U.S. reps back carriers’ request to hasten drug testing change
The April 25 letter from seven members of Congress asks FMCSA to allow 13 large carriers to skip urine tests in favor of hair sample tests “as soon as HHS issues its guidelines and before FMCSA subsequently completes its rule-making process” regarding hair sample testing.
May 10, 2017
Business
Pushback on allowing carriers to drug test drivers via hair sample prompts FMCSA to re-open comments
Granting requests made by driver trade unions, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has re-opened the public comment period for a request made by some of the country’s largest carriers to allow them to drug test driver applicants via hair sample instead of a urine sample. FMCSA currently only accepts results from urine sample testing.
February 24, 2017
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