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Breaking News: DOT issues update to Oral Fluid Final Rule, allowing collector training to begin December 5, 2024

NDASA is pleased to announce both the most recent DOT final rule addressing oral fluid collections and the beginning of oral fluid collector training - effective December 5, 2024! In today's Federal Register, the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office...

What does marijuana legalization mean for employee retention?

Jonathan Baktari, MD, CEO, US Drug Test Centers Research tells us that approximately 3.8% of the world’s population (or 158.8 million people) uses marijuana. In 2023, about 17% of Americans reported smoking marijuana, which was higher than in previous years. And —...

DOT Electronic CCF Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

NDASA is pleased to announce a long-awaited and very welcomed Notice of Proposed Rulemaking In the NPRM, published on Tuesday, October 15, the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and Compliance (ODAPC) and the Pipeline and...

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Legislative Update 7/2024

By Tim Monahan NDASA is actively engaged in seeking a safety carve-out to protect public safety through continued testing for THC should the U.S. Department of Justice succeed in forcing the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule marijuana, against the findings...

What happens when a DOT employee has a testing violation recorded in the FMCSA Clearinghouse and then changes modes?

What happens when a DOT employee has a testing violation recorded in the FMCSA Clearinghouse and then changes modes?

|By David Perlman, BA, NCAC II, SUDP, EAPIt is not uncommon for an individual to make a career change to another DOT mode of transportation. Transit operators may become truck drivers, merchant mariners may become railroad operators. Also, some employees hold dual...