Drug Users Evade Federal Trucking Agency

Thousands of licensed commercial truck drivers are deceiving the US government about their illegal drug use.

• These drivers get away with using cocaine, cannabis, opioids, heroin and drive 80,000-pound tractor trailers; a deadly mix that risks the safety of millions of motorists.
• And they are invisible to the US Dept. of Transportation (USDOT).

Those are key findings in a new survey of 172,632 truck driver drug test results at seven US trucking companies.

11x More Drug Users

USDOT has zero-tolerance for illegal drug use. This policy applies to commercial airline pilots, interstate truck drivers, Amtrak engineers and other regulated transportation jobs that are “safety sensitive occupations.” But a new Trucking Alliance survey suggests that truck drivers are using illegal drugs in dramatically higher numbers than USDOT reports.
In 2021, 88,021 licensed truck drivers applied for jobs at seven Trucking Alliance member trucking companies. The drivers were asked to take two pre-employment drug tests – the USDOT required urinalysis and a hair drug test requested by the companies.

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