As do speeding tickets. How often are they screened for?
The company I work with does a drug screening and a background check. Speeding tickets show up in the background check. If the position is one that travels, too many moving violations (I don't make that determination, so I don't know how many) or a DUI will result in a no-hire.
Speeding tickets show a willingness to break the law regardless of whether the position is one that travels - so there's no support there for your original claim.
The point of the article was businesses can’t find “qualified” workers. If your qualification is employee never smoked a MJ cigarette or had a traffic ticket, good luck. You may as well shut your doors.
I didn't make the original claim. You mentioned speeding tickets and I shared my experience which showed that speeding tickets may also be taken into account.
The reason the company distinguishes between jobs that travel and those that don't is risk. Their business guy in their rental car is their liability. The same holds true for someone who would be driving a forklift. Heaven forbid, some guy driving a forklift run over another employee and then we find out the guy's had 3 car accidents in the last year.