Posted on 05/24/2022 4:48:10 AM PDT by billorites
Randy : I cant get stoned Ricky!
Ricky : What do you mean? Its sh*tty work everybody does that, alright. Carpenters, electricians, dishwashers, floor cleaners, lawyers, doctors, f*cking politicians, CBC employees, principals, people who paint the lines on the f*ckin’ road. Get stoned, it’ll be fun. Get to work.
Remember the CDL truck driver shortage in North Dakota during the oil action that was happening up there a few years back?
Guess what? They were running through drivers at a fairly high rate because of drug testing. I know several people that went up there and cleaned up because they weren’t drug users.
The other thing was that the requirement for a CDL was by companies that were hiring and the reality turned out to be that a lot of work was driving trailers pulled by Dualies and they could have gotten by without a CDL unless state law required it. If CDLs weren’t required to pull what amounted to a loaded 5th wheel skeleton trailer why have it?
I think the company’s were using the CDL as a recruitment screening tool.
My usual truck delivery guy told me the same thing months ago.
So....the testing is the problem?
Whatever it take to get fossil fueled big rigs off the road.
And as they did not see fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do things not being proper;
Well, Amazon.com delivery drivers don’t have this problem. The other day, I was walking by a parked Amazon van and was assaulted by the stench of the marijuana cigarette that the young African American driver was enjoying on his break.
If you think testing is a problem, just come to Texas where the trial lawyers boast in their ads about the size of their judgements in lawsuits against trucking companies.
We lost 2 vietnams worth of our working age population to fentynal last year... maybe that is part of the reason there is a workers shortage...
The increase in drug overdose related deaths is caused by the vaccine - or so some posters have told us.
Oh yes, of course - just what we need - people on dope driving large trucks on the highway.
These people are insane.
I am don’t doubt that as well.
Whoa...the "Everything is the vaccine" theatre...thats...soooo....2021.
Oh, the testing has always been around. It’s the increase in potheads that is apparently the problem. Something, you know, that the pro-legalization crowd said wouldn’t make a difference. Well of course it has. Soros and his team have been successful getting this garbage passed in an increasing number of states - having a bunch of brain damaged buffoons are easier to control and get them to vote Democrat. Colorado was their first big project and you see how that state has progressed since then.
This propaganda article is trying to promote having truck drivers high on dope and increasingly cognitively impaired after long term use (not to mention the other long term effects) driving large rigs on the highway as though people doing dope are all doing so to treat diseases. Virtually none of these people, if any, are doing dope for medicinal purposes and certainly are not consuming medicinal cannabis to treat any disease.
I really do not believe this. I have to laugh because this article says that the problem is that different states have different laws regarding pot and other dope. The Feds must step in and regulate this of course./s
We just can’t have that, can we? Honestly, with diesel becoming unaffordable, truckers may be home smoking all kinds of weed real soon.
I don’t care if the driver a prescription drug that is truly medically necessary — if it impairs ability to drive safely, sorry, that driver needs to change careers. Marijuana, whether recreational or medicinal or “medicinal” significantly impairs driving ability. If you “need” it, find another job.
A loaded big rig can’t exactly stop on a dime. Delayed reaction time and impaired judgment can have very dire consequences.
What I don’t get is why the writer doesn’t seem to get that trucking companies and their insurance carriers can’t afford to have their drivers and trucks in more and more accidents caused by impairment from smoking pot. Even if they were heartless ghouls who care nothing about human life, the payouts and lawsuits would eat them alive.
The DOT regulations has long encouraged these shortages with 60 hour log book restrictions, random drug testing, and higher fees for the licenses as well as the testing for endorsements regarding authorization to do what Drivers had previously been doing for years, decades even.
The Driver shortage has been a crafted program. The best solution that the Government could come up with was their NAFTA Treaty which brought in Canadian and Mexican Drivers in great numbers. This ‘policy’ of course did result in a lot of very destructive wrecks in different areas, always low keyed by the media.
It all won't matter much once Gates and Fauci achieve their depopulation objectives. Once that happens, the Highways will open up and traffic will be much more sparse, and pollution will be fantastically diminished. The end of global warming is in sight.
The problem isn’t truckers driving around stoned, I don’t think most do, (the pot smoking truckers), and if they did it should be a driving while intoxicated charge. Driving under the influence is bad, stupid and should be dealt with severely.
Unlike booze, and other drugs people consume when not at work, pot attaches itself to fat cells in the body. Someone could smoke pot on a Saturday night and test positive three weeks later. There’s the problem. Whether we agree with legalized marijuana or not.
Do you think for a minute there wouldn’t be a solution to this issue if beer stayed in your system for 3 weeks after consuming a single beer? If you were high for 3 weeks that would be another issue, but it’s not.
This problem is only going to get worse as the legalization moves into more states, and it is coming. Someone is going to invent a testing means that can determine when someone consumed marijuana and when there’s active compounds in a persons system rather than residual and they are going to be extremely wealthy.
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