What is ‘reasonable suspicion’?

August 27, 2018

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LLN (8/24/18) – What is ‘reasonable suspicion’? We’ll find out what it means and how the drug testing process works from OOIDA’s CMCI department. We’ll hear from Jon Osburn about how ‘orange barrel season’ affects his travel in the Spirit. And OOIDA’s Nile Elam tells us how a trucking issue is stalling an aviation bill.

0:00 –   10:03– Newscast

10:03 – 24:41 – What is ‘reasonable suspicion’

24:55 – 39:56 – Orange barrel season is upon us

39:56 – 50:08 – A trucking issue stalls an aviation bill

Segment 1

Newscast

Segment 2

Odds are at some point in your trucking career, you’ve been tested for drugs or alcohol. Sometimes that test may happen when an employer has what’s called “reasonable suspicion.”  Mark Reddig finds out more from Doreen Weakley, Leslie Butler and Rachel Aycock of OOIDA’s CMCI department. You can find out more about OOIDA’s CMCI program online. Or call the office at 816-229-5791.

Segment 3

Orange barrel season is in high gear pretty much everywhere you go around the country. And as someone who literally goes everywhere, you can imagine Jon Osburn would have a few thoughts about that. Mark Reddig talks with the man who drives the Spirit of the American Trucker. See Jon’s full schedule, “The Spirit” Schedule.

Segment 4

The Senate is still working on the Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill, but the meal and rest break provision – a trucking issue – is slowing things down because it just won’t go away. Terry Scruton talks about what that means and where it could be headed with Nile Elam of OOIDA’s Washington, D.C., office.