Easy for truckers to cheat drug tests
Easy for truckers to cheat drug tests

NBC news is running a story on drug usage by American truckers. The report is based on a GAO report that says that government agents were able to fool the system at some drug testing sites with fake I.D.s and synthetic urine.

From NBC:

Undercover investigators with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, used bogus truck driver’s licenses to gain access to 24 drug-testing sites. They found that 75 percent “failed to restrict access to items that could be used to adulterate or dilute the [urine] specimen, meaning that running water, soap, or air freshener was available in the bathroom during the test.”


A DOT spokesman commented that driver errors, not drug use, caused most accidents. “Our efforts on this front have been critical in helping us reduce the number of large truck fatalities by nearly 5 percent last year — the largest decline in four years.”, a fact NBC conveniently left out of its on-air report. They also seem to assume that just because you can spoof the the system that we actually are. Most of the chemicals they show are things you would have to plan for, a pre-employment test, not one of the randoms that DOT requires.

Drugs and driving do not mix, if you feel you need to indulge in a little chemical recreation then you need to find another line of work. This goes for anyone with a job where others lives are at risk because you may not be on top of your game.

Be Safe;
Don Rogers