[Dale Wiley]

I will disagree with hyou all day long on this one. I forgot to say that our policy also covers alcohol as well.

If you want to keep being held hostage to a group of people who cannot get their lives under control then you are walking a fine line.

If your employee is under the influence or has been using drugs it the last 45 days, he wrecks a vehicle, I damn sure as the party on the other side I am going to look for substance abuse, vehicle defects any thing I possibly can to protect my company , employee and our position over all. I would have no mercy.

I have a great pool of workers. You want to work for me, you pass a drug test, you come to work every day, your going to get paid up to $ 17.00 per hour, medical and dental benifits, paid vacation, 401 K, and work 40 hours a week, and participate in the bonus program that can add another $ 2.00 per hour or more to your wage.

Your guy that goes to a college parties a little too hard, drives your vehicle hits my vehicle, or my family I am coming after your ass big time. You are so far out there for liability, after your insurance paid off, I am going to get more.

We work on a lot of public jobs anmd have to show proof of drug testing, and our workers are often subject a random testing by our general / prime contractor on his job site as well. I have no problem with it at all.

I have a much better work force since we started drug testing, and since we improved our human resources program. The tweakers can go steal metal and get tossed in jail. Drug affected workers have no place working in an industry where you operate equipment at others peoples property, and subject them to your driving, and could possibly injure others. Just not going to happen.

If you did have an accident, those lawyers would een subpoena your post as evidence that you did not due all you could to prevent a drug affected person from operatinkig your vehicle and equipment.

I went through a weight station last week with my semi, trailer and $ 80,00 of sports field equipment. We are a preffered carrier and seldom are red lighted for anything.

At the same stations, they ripped 7 truckers for being high on freaking meth. Impounded the trucks, hauled their miserable asses to jail.

Drug testing has imporved the workforce, take it from someone who has worked construction for over 27 years, it is a lot safer now thatn it was in 1979.