Besides conducting background checks as part of the employment screening program, to be compliant with the Department of Transportation, or DOT, any trucking and transportation that uses drivers with commercial drivers license must conduct a Motor Vehicle Driving Record, MVR, on each driver every twelve months.
The trucking company to be compliant with the DOT must also conduct a special DOT Drug Test on its drivers at least every once every twelve months and conduct random testing on 25% of its drivers once every six months. However, there are no rules regarding the DOT drug test. This rules went into effect October 1st, 2010.
These are the changes to the five panel test–
The test will asl include testing for MDMA (ecstasy)
There is the Addition of screening for 6_AM (Heroin)
There ae lower cutoff levels for Ampehtamine and Cocaine drug classes.
All trucking clients should be aw3are of these changes in the DOT Drug Tests. Any DOT drug tests ordered by Corra Group in behalf of its clients will be conducted according to the new DOT compliance standards.
