Approval of oral fluid testing for DOT-regulated drug screening procedures is significant. However, despite the rule being published May 2, 2023, with an effective date of June 1, 2023, there's a ...

It’s been a long time in the works, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has published a final rule that amends the federal regulated industry drug-testing program to include oral fluid specimen ...

The Department of Transportation is proposing to add new drug testing guidelines that would permit motor carriers to test truck drivers using oral fluid samples as an alternative to urine testing.

[Stay on top of transportation news: Get TTNews in your inbox.] U.S. Department of Transportation drug testing of truck drivers using oral fluid collections was approved more than a year ago, but a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DOT, HHS urged to get labs certified for oral-fluid testing. (Photo: John Gallagher/FreightWaves) WASHINGTON — Drug testing ...

The Department of Transportation has proposed a rule allowing oral-fluid testing as an alternative to urine-testing for drugs and alcohol among safety-sensitive workers. The Department of ...

More than a year after it first proposed a rulemaking, the U.S. Department of Transportation on May 2 released a final rule officially sanctioning oral-fluid testing as a method for screening ...

Substance abuse in the United States isn’t a new phenomenon and, in fact, drugs being abused today were once regarded as medicine. In the 19th century, for example, heroin and cocaine were approved ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation is revising its drug and alcohol testing procedures that were finalized in May 2023 that authorized oral fluid drug testing as an additional methodology for ...

With more than 230,000 positive drug tests since 2020, how the trucking industry detects drivers’ drug use is an important topic. Currently, Department of Transportation drug testing relies entirely ...