The American Trucking Associations applauded a provision in the House’s funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services that would press HHS to establish hair testing guidance.   The legislation passed the House Appropriations Committee today by a vote of 31-25.

ATA strongly supports the recognition of hair testing as a federally accepted drug testing method.  Giving trucking companies the option to use hair testing as an alternative to urinalysis in meeting federal drug testing requirements would unlock tremendous cost and safety benefits for the trucking industry and the motoring public.  Although it has been nearly a decade since Congress mandated that HHS create a procedure for hair testing, the guidelines have yet to be finalized.