Yahoo

DOT takes heat for drug testing certification delays

WASHINGTON — Drug testing facilities that have invested in oral-fluid-based testing for motor carriers, airlines, railroads and pipeline operators are pushing back on a proposal by the U.S. Department ...
EHS Today

DOT Seeks to Add Fentanyl to Drug Tests

The DOT's proposed rule would add fentanyl and norfentanyl to mandatory drug testing panels for transportation workers under ...
Transport Topics

DOT’s Oral Fluid Testing Stalls Due to Lack of Labs, Testers

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] U.S. Department of Transportation drug testing of truck drivers using oral fluid collections was approved more than a year ago, but a ...
JD Supra

DOT Issues Final Rule: Revised Procedures for Workplace Oral Drug Testing

In June 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) published a final rule with revised procedures for workplace drug and alcohol testing using oral fluid. The revisions detail technical changes ...
CCJ

DOT amends oral fluid drug testing procedures

The U.S. Department of Transportation is revising its drug and alcohol testing procedures that were finalized in May 2023 that authorized oral fluid drug testing as an additional methodology for ...
Fleet Owner

DOT to remove oral drug testing requirement as 'factual impossibility'

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...
CCJ

DOT proposes adding fentanyl to drug-testing panels for truck drivers, other transportation workers

The American Transportation Research Institute has launched its 2025 Top Industry Issues Survey, which asks trucking industry stakeholders to rank the top issues of concern for the industry, along ...
Transport Topics

DOT’s Oral-Fluid Drug Testing Raises Safety Concerns

The addition later this year of oral-fluid drug testing for marijuana, which typically detects use only for up to 72 hours after use, could allow truck drivers to use the drug and avoid detection, ...
Fleet Owner

DOT proposes adding fentanyl to truck driver drug testing rules

The DOT's proposed rule would add fentanyl and norfentanyl to drug testing panels for safety-critical roles such as CMV drivers, with detection thresholds as low as 1 ng/mL in urine. The fentanyl ...
Overdrive

Buttigieg: Marijuana rescheduling won’t impact DOT drug testing | Fleet owner convicted of lying to FMCSA

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said during a House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure hearing Thursday that the Department of Justice’s proposal to move marijuana from a Schedule I ...
Yahoo

DOT: Marijuana screening policies shouldn’t change amid federal drug rescheduling

Before you can become a commercial truck driver, you must take federal drug and alcohol tests. “Any impaired driving via alcohol, marijuana or any other sources of impairment is, of course, a major ...