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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
I hate to sound like a jerk or anything, but I would think that with 6 years under your belt you would know that when you are popped for a random drug test you are to report immediately for testing and if the test is not completed within, usually 4 hours, it is an automatic failure which in this biz is as good as testing positive.
To hijack this guy's thread a little, I'm curious how this *does* work in the real world. I drove for a private carrier, and all trips wound up back at the home terminal. The way it used to work, if my number came up, the boss would be out there on the yard with a cup in his hand as soon as I got parked.
Now I'm on a dedicated run that never gets me anywhere within a few hundred miles of the nearest terminal for this outfit. I doubt they'll bring me in for a random and take me 600 miles out of route for it, not to mention completely wrecking the all important mission critical JIT schedule.
It would be most convenient if they could pop me near my house, because I know where all the commercial driver testing outfits are around here, but I don't expect that will happen.
So how does this work? I'm driving through BFE and the Qualcomm says I have three hours to find a hospital I can park a T600 and 53' trailer in while I try to convince some nice nurse lady to give me a cup to pee in?
I'm not remotely worried about failing one of these things, but I'm worried about a scenario like this poster here. I only have an hour to play with in my schedule before a factory starts starving for parts. It would be stupid to pop me on the way *to* my destination, but maybe when the number comes across the computer, it comes across the computer NOW NOW NOW.
I have no idea, but I want to have a plan and keep my ass covered in case of this eventuality.
Will the dispatcher find me a hospital somewhere or whatever, or is it all on me? I don't even have an atlas at the moment, since I gave mine away at the end of my last job, when I was determined I was going to hang it up and be a technical writer. I can't afford one yet, waiting on the money train to get rolling again.
Since I know what route I'm on, should I research all the possible drug testing places between here and there, and try to have a plan all mapped out to swing in and out of there in a hurry?
Am I being too paranoid?