A hair strand drug test screens for illicit drug use and the misuse of prescription medication. Though commonly called a “hair follicle test,” this drug test only tests clipped strands of hair, not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The trucking industry’s decade-long push for hair follicle drug testing is reaching a critical inflection point as the Trump ...

Urinalysis is the primary, federally accepted method for administering mandated pre-employment drug tests. Meantime, the Alliance for Driver Safety & Security (also known as the Trucking Alliance) has ...

This story appears in the Jan. 23 print edition of Transport Topics. Federal regulators last week revealed that six large motor carriers are seeking an exemption to hiring that, if granted, would ...

Hair-testing advocates say it could help keep lifestyle drug users off the highways. This crash made national headlines, when an Amtrak train carrying Republican congressional members hit a refuse ...

A bill that would allow the Department of Transportation to authorize hair testing instead of urinalysis to test drivers for drug use goes against current medical and scientific evidence, according to ...

Imagine being denied work — not because of your qualifications or work history, but because a drug test required for employment comes back positive for a drug you never used. Now imagine learning that ...

The findings made headlines when they came out recently—more Americans failing workplace drug checks than at any time in the last decade. Quest Diagnostics’s report in September that workforce drug ...