Historically, the DOT’s regulation required the MRO to report your medication use/medical information to a third party (e.g. your employer, health care provider responsible for your medical qualifications, etc.), if the MRO determines in his/her reasonable medical judgement that you may be medically unqualified according to DOT Agency regulations, or if your continued performance is [...]
Screening and confirmation testing are performed using different methodologies that require different cutoff levels. The cutoff levels of an immunoassay (screen) are typically higher than those of a more sensitive GC-MS or LC-MS/MS confirmation test. The reason is that they test for a larger group of parent compounds, metabolites and other structurally similar compounds. If [...]
DOT auditors are responsible for making sure employer are in compliance with the federal regulations for DOT drug and alcohol testing. We've compiled a DOT audit checklist that represent most of the records a DOT Agency and USCG auditor, inspector, or investigator will usually request and review during a program review. Keep in [...]
What happens in a DOT Audit? The following comes from the FMCSA. 1: Allowing a driver to operate with a suspended/revoked CDL Employers who were fined for allowing a driver to operate with a suspended/revoked CDL paid an average fine amount of $8,991. This is what your required annual MVR check and Clearinghouse queries are [...]
Summarized from 49CFR Part 40) and adapted to non-DOT collections. We model DOT protocols for all collections. The collector may terminate the process at any point if the donor does not cooperate. No one is forcing you to remain at the collection site. If you leave after beginning the process, it is reported as [...]
Summarized from 49CFR Part 40) and adapted to non-DOT collections. We model DOT protocols for all collections. The collector may terminate the process at any point if the donor does not cooperate. Urine drug tests require either 30 or 45ml of specimen. If a donor is not able to produce sufficient specimen, the shy bladder [...]
Summarized from 49CFR Part 40) and adapted to non-DOT collections. We model DOT protocols for all collections. The collector may terminate the process at any point if the donor does not cooperate. Temperature Out of Range Urine specimens are expected to be between 90 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit. If below 90 or above 100, the [...]
Positive – Presence of drugs above the cutoff level Adulterated – Something has been done to alter the sample Shy Bladder – Inability to provide a sample Substituted Specimen / Invalid Specimen – Substance provided was something other than human urine and could not be tested Negative Dilute – Sample is too diluted to provide [...]
It is not uncommon for people to try to defeat a drug test, either by substitution or adulteration. Substitution simply means they smuggle in someone else's urine, or synthetic urine. Adulteration means they add an adulterant to their specimen which can make it invalid. To prevent this from occurring, sometimes an observer accompanies the individual [...]
The following chart outlines the annual minimum drug and alcohol random testing rates established within DOT Agencies for 2022. DOT Agency 2022 Random Drug Testing Rate 2022 Random Alcohol Testing Rate Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [FMCSA] The random rates did not change for 2022. Because the random rates did not change, FMCSA is not [...]
