For 30+ years DOT regulated employers have been required to conduct drug testing using only urine specimens, but Oral fluid drug testing will soon be available. DOT Oral Fluid Drug Testing is soon to ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation on May 1 announced the issuance of a final rule approving use of oral fluid to drug test truck drivers, a move made to deter cheating on urine-based examinations ...

The Department of Transportation on May 1 filed a 227-page Final Rule that allows oral fluid as an authorized testing method for the presence of unlawful drugs, giving fleets the option to subject ...

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.

In June 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) published a final rule with revised procedures for workplace drug and alcohol testing using oral fluid. The revisions detail technical changes ...

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 ...

The Department of Transportation is revising a requirement that it calls an “inadvertent factual impossibility” from its drug testing procedures. A provision from DOT’s 2023 oral fluid drug testing ...

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 ...

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 ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Research underway at Western Michigan University could revolutionize the future of testing for drugs, which is subject to abuse. "The main way the outcomes of substance abuse ...