The Trucking Alliance

As we say goodbye to 2024 and welcome 2025, we want to thank the hardworking truck drivers who keep America moving. From coast to coast, your dedication delivers more than just freight—it delivers opportunities, connections, and brighter futures. Here’s to a new year filled with safety, success, and progress on the road ahead. Cheers to 2025! 🎉🚛 #TruckingAlliance #HappyNewYear #ThankATrucker

About 2.97 million truck drivers who hold a commercial drivers license (CDL) are required to pass drug and alcohol tests. But there are 13 million additional commercial trucks that are operated by drivers who aren’t required to pass drug tests. For-hire drivers share the same highways and create the same safety risks to the public. Federal regulations should require all for-hire truck drivers to be drug and alcohol-free. Safety isn’t optional—it’s essential. Learn more about The Trucking Alliance's safety priorities: https://bit.ly/4f61KkW #TheTruckingAlliance #RoadSafety #CommercialTrucks #SafeHighways

Happy Holidays from The Trucking Alliance! ✨🎄 Nothing gets us in the holiday spirit like one of our favorite classic Coca-Cola commercials. It reminds us that trucking keeps the world (and holiday cheer) moving! To all the hardworking truckers delivering joy and magic this season—thank you! You’re the real-life Santas who make the holidays possible. 🚛🎅 Watch the full commercial here 👉 https://bit.ly/49DYZGx #TruckingAlliance #HappyHolidays #ThankATrucker #CocaCola #HolidayCommercial

Researchers at the University of Tennessee and the University of Central Arkansas have updated their ongoing study of matched urine and hair drug tests taken from licensed truck drivers, to include 2023 data. Now with more than 1 million matched results, hair drug testing is 14x more accurate at identifying repeated illegal drug users. Despite a 2015 federal law to do so, the federal bureaucracy continues to prohibit positive hair drug tests in the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Employers have no way of knowing if a driver has previously failed a hair drug test. The Trump Administration will likely do the right thing and finally allow positive hair test results into the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. Read it here: https://bit.ly/4iFv8Bv

Installing Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) into more commercial trucks will ensure that for-hire drivers do not exceed their on-duty hours. ELDs help reduce fatigue, a leading cause of accidents and protect everybody on the roadways. Let’s make our highways safer for all. Learn more about The Trucking Alliance's safety priorities: https://bit.ly/4f61KkW #TheTruckingAlliance #ELD #RoadSafety #CommercialTrucks #SafeHighways

In 1980, Congress required applicants for starting a trucking company to have sufficient new worth to operate safely and also, if at fault, to adequately compensate victims of large truck crashes. The amount of net worth has not been increased in more than 40 years. Trucking companies should be required to have the same net worth today, factored for medical inflation. That amount would be about $5 million today. Increasing these insurance requirements will compel trucking companies to enhance their safety operations and performance, thereby improving overall safety, as well as ensuring that accident victims receive compensation that reflects today's medical expenses. Learn more about The Trucking Alliance initiatives 👉 https://bit.ly/3MjgMZl #RoadSafety #SaferRoadsForAll #Trucking #TruckDrivers

Researchers at the University of Tennessee and the University of Central Arkansas just completed their analysis of 38,311 matched pre-employment hair and urine drug tests submitted by licensed truck drivers in 2023. The results show that hair testing identified significantly more drug positives than urine testing, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting lifestyle drug use. These findings highlight the need for the U.S. Department of Transportation to accept positive pre-employment hair test results to the Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse, as Congress directed the agency to do in 2015. #Trucking #RoadSafety #SaferRoadsForAll #Transportation #HairTesting

In 2015, former Congressman and incoming Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, joined Congressman Rick Crawford (R-AR) and introduced the “𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘨 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘋𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 2015." The bill passed and is now federal law. The law directs the Secretary of Transportation to recognize hair drug testing of commercial truck drivers, in lieu of the less effective urinalysis, for pre-employment drug testing protocols. But the federal bureaucracy has kept this law from being implemented. As Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy can finally make this law a reality to make our highways safer and reduce drug impaired large truck crashes. Read more about this important initiative ➡️ https://bit.ly/4dzswBL

This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for the truckers who keep our traditions alive by delivering our goods. May your holiday be as special as the cargo you transport. 🦃 #HappyThanksgiving #ThankATrucker #TruckingAlliance

In 2015, Congress passed a federal law that would allow a truck driver's positive hair drug test results into the FMCSA's Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse. This law is essential for transportation companies to combat illegal drug use among commercial drivers. However, in almost 10 years, the federal bureaucracy has not implemented the law. It's time we did! 🛣️ #DrugTesting #RoadSafety #SaferRoadsForAll #Trucking #HairTesting