Recent enforcement actions show criminal networks targeting shipments, warehouses, border crossings and international exports.
The order directs expedited rescheduling to Schedule III, but the same agency that’s held up oral fluid testing for two years now holds the keys to marijuana testing’s future.
Trump’s marijuana rescheduling could strip DOT of testing authority for 4 million CDL drivers. Without a safety carve-out, the agency that’s kept impaired operators off highways for 34 years loses its legal teeth. Here’s what carriers need to do before the rules change.
Authorities seized over $114 million in drugs from trucks in September; while a Canadian man was extradited from Mexico in a $450 million smuggling case.
Authorities in New Jersey and Canada recently made arrests in separate drug smuggling cases involving marijuana, methamphetamine and more.
Trucking and marijuana use was the background issue in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding a driver who was dismissed for failing a THC test even though he hadn’t used marijuana.
The U.S. transportation secretary took on drugs and port labor at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
A nuclear verdict in a fatal accident on Interstate 70 in Missouri has been upheld by an appellate court.
The American Transportation Research Institute is again investigating the safety and other impacts on the trucking industry of state-level marijuana legalization — as well as additional questions the issue raises.
After three years in operation, FMCSA’s drug clearinghouse is ‘a great source of truth’ despite alarming trends, asserts a trucking regulatory expert.
El ritmo de aumento se duplica respecto al año anterior; las infracciones por marihuana suben un 31
La exención destinada a identificar el consumo de drogas va más allá de la autoridad de la agencia, afirma Hutcheson de la FMCSA
The nation’s top truck safety regulator argues her hands are tied when it comes to approving a drug-test exemption.
The federal government has cracked down on cannabis use among truck drivers. But recent research suggests legal marijuana may actually boost safety on the road.
As online cannabis sales have increased, more attention is being paid to the e-commerce experience as companies work to make the ordering and delivery experience more seamless.
A truckload carrier-backed study finds cocaine and opioid abuse by truckers are underreported at FMCSA.
Carriers need to ramp up education efforts on Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse testing to help drivers understand the zero-tolerance approach to safety-conscious driving positions.
A truck driver agreed to transport nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana under the watch of federal agents after his load was intercepted at the U.S.-Canada border.
The number of drivers prohibited from driving due to drugs matches an estimated shortfall of drivers needed to keep up with freight demand.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found more than $6 million worth of marijuana in trucks purporting to have paper shipments in two separate seizures in the Buffalo, New York, area.
