Urinalysis is the primary, federally accepted method for administering mandated pre-employment drug tests. Meantime, the Alliance for Driver Safety & Security (also known as the Trucking Alliance) has ...

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is seeking comment on a request by an alliance of large motor carriers for an exemption ...

The trucking industry’s decade-long push for hair follicle drug testing is reaching a critical inflection point as the Trump administration prepares to address guidelines that have been delayed ...

Revised guidelines for drug-testing hair scheduled for publishing next year. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has again pushed back its ...

Urine testing has its methods of avoiding detection. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration mandates random drug testing for 50% of a fleet’s drivers, but the agency only accepts urinalysis ...

This Opinion piece appears in the July 30 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. In 2007, I read a survey revealing that 10% of truck drivers on the nation’s highways ...