The total number of truck driver drug violations increased by 10% in 2021, compared with total numbers reported in 2020, according to a new federal Drug & Alcohol Clearinghouse summary report.
The new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration report said the number of driver drug violations in all of 2021 totaled 58,215, compared with 52,810 in 2020, when the Clearinghouse first went into effect on Jan. 6 .
Those numbers include drug test failures, disqualifications resulting from carrier knowledge of a driver’s drug use and refusals by drivers to take a drug test, the report said.
