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Mike Bost: “If we don't stay with that program--and the thing that is difficult about that is, right now, when we have a driver…”

On the recordJune 26, 2024
If we don't stay with that program--and the thing that is difficult about that is, right now, when we have a driver shortage, you can have a beer on Sunday and you are not impaired to drive on Monday. Now, you can smoke a joint on Friday. You may not be impaired, but it is going to show up in that test, and it will show up for 30 days.
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Mike Bost
Republican · Illinois

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Bost discusses the challenges of drug testing for truck drivers amid marijuana reclassification.

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