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The Department of Transportation is proposing to add new drug testing guidelines that would permit motor carriers to test truck drivers using oral fluid samples as an alternative to urine testing.

With more than 230,000 positive drug tests since 2020, how the trucking industry detects drivers’ drug use is an important topic. Currently, Department of Transportation drug testing relies entirely ...

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) recently proposed significant amendments to its drug and alcohol testing regulations that include adding fentanyl and its metabolite, norfentanyl, to the drug ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing to amend the transportation industry’s drug testing program procedures regulation to allow oral fluid testing in lieu of urine testing. In a Federal ...

The Department of Transportation has published proposed rules to include oral fluid testing as an alternative to urine testing for the federal DOT-regulated drug and alcohol testing program. According ...

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 ...

The Department of Transportation on Monday filed a Final Rule that will allow oral fluid as an authorized testing method for the presence of unlawful drugs. The 227-page final rule is scheduled for ...

For 30+ years DOT regulated employers have been required to conduct drug testing using only urine specimens, but Oral fluid drug testing will soon be available. DOT Oral Fluid Drug Testing is soon to ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation oversees about 60,000 people in the United States, and these employees encompass our entire transportation system: aviation, highway and maritime. For safety ...