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W EEKLY EDITION DEC 7, 2016 Joke of the Week Stan the pick up and delivery driver returned to the yard with some bad news for Oliver, the owner of the portable restroom company. "I'm sorry boss. I seem to have lost the company iPad. I thought I put it in the truck at my next t o last stop, but when I got to the last one I couldn't find it. I looked around pretty well but it's just gone." Oliver said, "Wait here." Knowing Stan to be a basically honest fellow, he didn't think for a minute that anything underhanded was going on. So Oliver went outside, rooted around in the truck, and returned five minutes later with the missing iPad. "Wow – that's awesome boss! How'd you do that?!" Stan exclaimed. "Simple," Oliver replied. "We were looking for different things. You were looking for an iPad. I was looking for $529." © Portable Sanitation Ass ociation International (PSAI) • 2626 E 82 n d Street, Suite 175 • Bloomi ngton, MN 55425 www.psai.org • 952 - 854 - 8 300 New Clearinghouse to Drive Away Truck Drivers? A United States drug and alcohol test clearinghouse will enforce changes to trucking industry's driver standards. With the trucking industry already facing a shortage of dri vers, it may become even more difficult for companies to put capable drivers behind the wheel of a truck. A drug and alcohol testing clearinghouse is vowing to keep drivers who have failed drug or alcohol testing in the past out of the drivers seat. While this effort holds merit, many fear that this will only shrink the limited number of drivers available. The clearinghouse explains that this would lead to more testing and less loopholes. Once the clearinghouse's rules are established and take full effect , anyone hiring drivers would need to check the prospective candidate against the database – along with checking their current drivers against the clearinghouse each year. Also, an employer would have to add informatio n to the database if and when a driver tests positive or refuses testing. The American Trucking Associations (ATA) views this as a win, as they have advocated for some sort of clearinghouse for years . "[It] provides the trucking industry with a powerful tool to keep drivers who have tested p ositive for drugs and alcohol out from behind the wheel of our trucks," Bill Sullivan, executive vice president of advocacy at the ATA, explains. That being said, there is a way for truck drivers to become reinstated, as records in the clearinghouse will remain for a period of five years, or until a driver goes through and completes the "return - to - duty" process. In this, a driver is taken off the road, evaluated or treated, and then retested. While some view this as a productive change, and others worry about the negative effects this could have on dwindling driver numbers, this has the potential to affect PSAI members and their drivers. However, with integrity during the hiring process being so important, the hope is that each employer will benefit posit ively from the standards this clearinghouse holds their hired drivers to. READ THE STORY