Prescription Narcotic

I take norco and have had 3 drug tests in 14 months and have never tested positive for an opiate. The difference between vicodin and norco is the amount of ibuprofen in each drug. Norco is 325 and vicodin is 500 millograms. There's more opiate in a pepsi than in a norco. Its such a small amount it comes in under the minimum threshold for being positive for opiates.

This is not true at all and I'm not sure what planet this poster lives on, but it's not Earth.

Hydrocodone will test you positive and immediately disqualify you from driving a rig. The captain ingredient in Norco is Hydrocodone, an opiate.

There's not even ibuprofen in Norco, it's acetaminophen.

And there's definitely not any opiate or hydrocodone or acetaminphen or ibuprofen or anything but God given high fructose corn syrup in Pepsi.

If you use ANY pain medication that contains a narcotic of any sort, you must take 30 days OFF before you can drive ... DOT regs (I got torpedoed by that one when I first went to Prime's orientation) ... there may be other drugs with similar restrictions but my particular drug was Norco (sp?) for an elbow injury just before I went to Springfield ... I told them ahead of time (before the drug test) and even though it was out of my system the DOT mandated I had to complete 16 more days off (it had been 14 days at the time) before I could begin my training - driving! So, keep this in mind ...

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(This was my response to a previous post ... so if you take Norco daily then you will be precluded from driving as per DOT regs ... that was my personal experience ...)

Even my brother in law drives for Gordan, and he told them he took a narcotic pain pill. They told him to not take them while driing, if he could to wait untill he got in the sleeper. He told them its when he's drikving that the pain is there. So he's still working there. Drug tests all come under the minimum threshold for opiates,.

Even my brother in law drives for Gordan, and he told them he took a narcotic pain pill. They told him to not take them while driing, if he could to wait untill he got in the sleeper. He told them its when he's drikving that the pain is there. So he's still working there. Drug tests all come under the minimum threshold for opiates,.

Lawrence, you keep providing examples of why it is ok to ingest prescription narcotics, but you haven't said that you have been involved in an accident, killed one or more people, passed the mandatory 10 panel drug test, and had all charges dropped that would have sent you to prison for years if not decades.

The only way you will get by with this for any length of time, is to work for a small company who doesn't do their homework. However, if you ever have an accident, or give DOT any reason to give you a 10 panel drug test, your driving career will be over instantly.

In fact, I would be surprised if you could even make it into the 2nd week of truck driving school with any reputable school who administers the 10 panel test during the initial screening process.

I'm sure there are drivers out there on the road who are being legally prescribed narcotic medications, and feel that it is none of their employers business what medicines their doctors prescribe them. However a prosecuting attorney would have a slam dunk case should they ever have an accident and seriously injure or kill someone.