Company That Hires New CDL Holders But Doesn't Do Follicle Tests

Can they pull a nose hair for a follicle test?

I guess i am confused about your dissatisfaction. In one statement you are critiquing a rigid training system designed by those whom you say have no experience driving a CMV , then you follow that up with the fact that you will be training drivers, when you yourself acknowledge your two weeks of driver training. Is there a reason you can't do both with them, drive and also do the training tasks?

My apologies for the confusion. I was in trucking school for 2 weeks and then took my DOT CDL exam on the Sunday following the second week. I passed, and got my CDL, but the fact that I was there with people doing 3,6, and 9 month programs just made two weeks to accomplish the same task seem absurd. I passed, but it required me to not do or think about anything but my training for two weeks. I am honestly proud of getting my CDL in that way but I feel like it should at least be a 4 week program, not 2.

However now I will be "training" for the next 5 months culminating in a 3 week program halfway across the country where the emphasis isn't driving, but bring able to recite a thick binder and all it's contents. They don't care that you as a trainer are a food driver, or even an okay one. The job is essentially you working with new CDL holders and "training" them based on nothing but my company's ideas on safety and driving. I just feel like if I'm not given the time and training to become an experienced driver myself, it will just be the blind leading the blind.

Also, I don't want to have to train snd supervisor other people anymore. I fell in love with driving during school and want to drive. My position pays well, and I know I'll take a pay cut for the first few year, but I'm willing to make less and not hate my job.

Can they pull a nose hair for a follicle test?

I guess i am confused about your dissatisfaction. In one statement you are critiquing a rigid training system designed by those whom you say have no experience driving a CMV , then you follow that up with the fact that you will be training drivers, when you yourself acknowledge your two weeks of driver training. Is there a reason you can't do both with them, drive and also do the training tasks?

Mr. C might have asked his question in good fun, but I would really like to know the answer.

Can they use nose hair for a follicle test???????????

Excellent question, Mr C

BK, initially it was serious, but then I realized the humorous component as well.

Absent the medical diagnosis of alopetia (i think thats the condition) - anyone that has no available hair for a follicle test through shaving or dipilatory use is making a lifestyle choice. Pornstar, swimmer, matters not. It is a choice. Just like smoking weed, using coke, smoking meth, spiking H.

So, yank that nose hair. No sympathy from me.

Hurts like the bejeezeez i would think...

BK, initially it was serious, but then I realized the humorous component as well.

Absent the medical diagnosis of alopetia (i think thats the condition) - anyone that has no available hair for a follicle test through shaving or dipilatory use is making a lifestyle choice. Pornstar, swimmer, matters not. It is a choice. Just like smoking weed, using coke, smoking meth, spiking H.

So, yank that nose hair. No sympathy from me.

Hurts like the bejeezeez i would think...

The problem I see would be getting enough hairs to test. I’m not sure that they can test just one individual hair. And a bunch of nose hairs might booger up the test equipment.