Arnold SAFETY GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS Eric Arnold, President of Arnold Safety


Eric Arnold, President of Arnold Safety Consulting, Inc. is a former U.S. Department of Transportation agent, with over 33 years regulatory and transportation compliance experience, and has been an OABA member for the past 20 years. His column will appear periodically in Showtime magazine. As part of your OABA dues, Mr. Arnold is available for free consultations regarding the FMCSA rules and regulations.


 account that he was taking steps to reclassify marijuana from


a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug. His concluding words   the weekends, and still legally drive a truck? We all know, presently, this is prohibited. All sorts of rules exist prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana. This article will only address those which apply      to be conducted.


 


As a laboratory, you must test for the following drugs or classes 


for any other drugs.


       


 


Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) to 26,000 lbs. GVWR, are 


are prohibited from using Schedule I drugs, such as marijuana.   Schedule I drugs.   engines through several red signals and crashed into a speeding  engineers were smoking marijuana at the time of the crash.  was born shortly thereafter. That’s the background. So, what’s the answer to the  thing, simply ‘reclassifying’ marijuana does not automatically  to become a substance which can be legally used by truck  rules. The rewriting of regulations by government agencies typically takes years.  to reclassify marijuana for safety reasons. He wants to do it for criminal justice and political reasons. High percentages of Americans favor the legalization of marijuana. It’s doubtful those same Americans favor truck drivers smoking a bowl at   would mean nothing really changes for truck drivers, but the penalties for illegally selling marijuana would become much less severe, among other things.





is and always has been marijuana. The others are cocaine,   Schedule I drugs morphine, hydrocodone, oxycodone, heroin,    according to them, are drugs with little medicinal value, and a  marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, where things like testosterone and ketamine are listed.


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  I do not believe Trump has taken a position on the issue.  alcohol. It’s only a matter of time before marijuana is largely legal everywhere. A truck driver is free to drink alcohol any way he chooses provided he is not intoxicated while driving.   breathalyzer test used by police to measure alcohol intoxication. The answer to the $64,000 question will be ‘yes”, eventually. It’s going to take time, likely years. Remember: everything always takes longer than you think it’s going to take, so don’t 


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