American truck associations (ATA) say that “very worried” is in drug testing programs.
Sean Duffy Sean Duffy, Dan Horvath, said Dan Horvath. Dan Horvath is capable of achieving the authority and ability to control the transport employees of the marijuana commercial engine (CMV) and security staff “.
Of course, this policy has not yet been prescribed. And while President Donald Trump said he will take a decision about the recently mentioned proposal in the week-Txo protect the reform on the route of the campaign last year – should be seen whether he wants to continue the restoration.
Horvath said that the door “does not have a formal position to legalize or deregulation,” we are very worried about re-programming safety risks, testing the authority and technical requirements for the necessary security staff. “
Concern is a potential guideline for the compulsory federal drug test if they will now be transferred to the Cannabis III Program.
“If so, dot programs to keep programs without cleaning, to maintain marijuana testing authority, and such federal policy changes can be serious consequences for highway safety and national transport network,” letters said. “This risk is not a proven standard, a highly accepted standard before the roadside or before the driver starts working before the vehicle is harder to prevent driving disability.”
“The implications of a gap in the test authority are well documented in the implications of potential security,” Horvath said, pointing to the data The rate of Positive Thc among the driver And research showed the increase in traffic death after state legalization.
“The door has repeatedly transmitted these concerns, and our demand about potential clarity, in the DOT test program, according to the previous administration, both in discussions about formal letters and people”. new According to transport issues.
Horvath also noticed Pete Buttigieg while the Secretary of Transportation has told a conference committee last year Rescheduling would not affect drug testing regulationsAta “never received Answer to our correspondence Explain the basis of this position or explain the details that intend to deal with impacts in the program. “
“The public attention of marijuana policy and marijuana is a federal novelty, we want to effectively coordinate the change in the HHS (Department of Justice) to ensure the authority, tools and technical skills in controlling federal policy.”
Meanwhile, a policy in a couple of companies in the truck industry premiered in April, which sought was approximately 80,000 drivers Positive to marijuana says staff had aggravated Zero-tolerance drug policy below dot.
MARIHUANA Moving III “dot regulations and drug test protocols”, papers, for example, recognizing legal medical use and reducing social stigma, but should not be facilitated.
Dot drug screening program usually uses urinary-based tests, but the report says that Saliva and hair follicle test provides benefits in this standard. It is warned that “there is no extended test today to determine whether a driver is exposed to a drug like THC.”
The Department ended the new test policy in 2023 Allow oral salt drug testing as an alternative to testing based on urine. Late Last last year, critics fell more than half years after the end of the authority, Fixed officials had yet to use the necessary infrastructure to use the new test procedure.
Legislators of Congress Auditions in March The truck industry representatives heard that they called the use of hair follicle tests in the industry. President of the National Transport Safety Commission (NTSB) recommended better education for drivers.
In April, the US Supreme Court A Cannabis company sued for a truck after shooting for a positive THC test He said consuming the CBD product derived from hemp.
Separately, substance abuse and mental health services administration (Samhsa) Official Criticism of a drug testing drug testing “means a drug test” means Canavies use cannabis to do with the nearby impunityA couple of days while avoiding drug test. “
The Transport Industry also recommended the Congress in January If Marijuana is federally restructuring, businesses do not ensure that zero tolerance policies do not need drivers-The key problem of the questionnaire is lacking technology to detect driving handicap.
Report of the 2023 Congress of Congress of Transport, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies (Thud), the House Credit Committee “Marijuana impairment measurement measurement is continued to measure the measurement test measurement of sobriety tests to ensure highway security. “
A year earlier in Colorado John Hickenlooper (D) Senin sent the letter to the point Looking for an update in this state of a federal report In the roads that inhibit the development of standardized marijuana deterioration on the roads. The Department Report had to complete Under a large-scale infrastructure bill Then signed by President Joe Biden, but The deadline he reported.
Meanwhile, the National Transport Safety Commission (NTSB) warned Marijuana again program “blind places” to test federally regulated employee tests in security sensitive positions.
On the home committee, then the Dot Secretary mentioned concerns about the door “about the general public” Effects of Highway National System Appeal and Safety Conclusions And his users, “Truck Associations were thrown in a letter to the secretary.
The current federal laws promise to abstain by commercial drivers from cannabis to different types of drug performances, pre-work, random tests.
In June 2022, they found the ATRI survey of the US Licensed Truck Drivers 72.4 percent “release” supports cannabis law and test policies. Another 66.5, 66.5 said Marijuana had to be legalized federally.
Cannabis deforms reforms, while, too The federal civil servant called the “discriminatory” drug test practice around the truck industry.
Fargo Analysis A top well said in 2022 that the main reason for raising costs and staff in the transport sector: marijuana criminalization and As a result, drug testing orders This follows as more states legalize.
Later representative. Earl Blumenoer (or) sent a letter to Motura in 2022, emphasizing that they are policies about the drug testing truck and commercial marijuana useless people cost their work And it helps supply chain problems.
2022 ATRI reports that the impact of cannabis is affected and the impact on motorway security is currently confused, complicating the judgment to correct the problem. A separate 2019 Congress Research Service Report (CRS) It has also been found that evidence of the decline in cannabis is not inclusive.
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