JD Supra

DOT Random Drug and Alcohol Testing Rates for 2025

The Department of Transportation’s operating agencies have announced their random drug and alcohol testing rates for 2025. The rates are the same as 2024, except that PHMSA has increased its random ...
Overdrive

DOT soliciting drug test results from random carriers

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is randomly selecting trucking companies to submit their 2016 U.S. DOT drug testing results to the agency. The random selection is part of FMCSA’s ...
Transport Topics

Positive Drug-Test Rate Up to 7-Year High, DOT Says

This story appears in the June 26 & July 3 print edition of Transport Topics. A new U.S. Department of Transportation drug testing report shows that the overall 2016 lab-reported positive drug test ...
Transport Topics

DOT to Require Testing for Synthetic Opioids Beginning Jan. 1

For the first time, beginning Jan. 1, truck drivers being administered random pre-employment and post-accident drug tests will be screened for four additional synthetic opioids, the highly addictive ...
Fleet Owner

FMCSA raises random drug test rate as start of clearinghouse nears

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is doubling the minimum annual percentage rate for random tests of truck drivers for controlled substances. The announcement came just ahead of ...
CCJ

With driver drug testing facilities struggling to stay afloat, DOT considers enforcement leniency

For carriers having trouble keeping up with truck driver drug screenings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Tuesday said it will attempt to use discretion in ...
JD Supra

DOT Random Drug and Alcohol Testing Rates for 2024

Happy New Year! The Department of Transportation’s operating agencies have announced their random drug and alcohol testing rates for 2024. These rates are the annual minimum drug and alcohol random ...