Hair testing suggested for FMCSA’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse

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Written By Jennifer Joslyn

This isn’t the first time that the Trucking Alliance has made a push for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to introduce hair testing to the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. In a bid to the Federal Register yesterday, the Trucking Alliance is asking to modify current regulations.

Hair testing has been controversial in the sense that it cannot prove that a person has actually used the substance that is being tested - only that they have been in an environment that included the substance. It’s been requested in the past that hair testing be used instead of urinalysis, however, the FMSCA has previously denied this request as recently as May of 2021.

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