Practically every legitimate employer will require that you undergo a urinalysis prior to being offered employment. This is to satisfy DOT regulations.
If you have anything in your system, you might as well not even bother taking a urinalysis, because you simply will not beat the test.
My first CDL employer, Reohl, even required a hair sample to be taken along with a urinalysis. The reason for the hair sample is simple: your hair serves as a testimony to any substances you may have ingested for the past four to six months, and even longer for longer strands of hair. Any substances you may have engaged in partaking within that time frame will show up in the hair follicle sample taken, and will show up in test results.
Back to the urinalysis, one driver confided to me that he was, at first, worried that a daily drug taken to combat the HIV virus might hinder his employment prospects. He soon found out that that the lab apparently only seeks out evidence of traces of illegal substances, because he passed every one of his pre-employment and random employment drug tests. Other than his regular HIV medication, he was clean, and apparently not even this daily regimen registered so much as a blip on his urinalysis, as the urinalysis test isn't designed to look for every known phamaceutical ever invented. The test only seeks out the illegal substances.
Still, he was worried about his employer finding out about his HIV status nonetheless. During the orientation, he, along with the other new indoctrinees, was asked to provide a list of current prescriptions. Providing the name of his HIV-related prescription would pretty much incriminate his HIV status, which he wasn't willing to do. I'd agree that it would be none of an employers' business about his medical state, and providing a list of medications would pretty much tell his employer things they didn't need to know. So he didn't provide the list of required medications. I mean, why should he? I wouldn't have.
Turns out, such a list was completely unnecessary, as he passed his first pre-employment test, and every subsequent, despite being on this daily HIV prescription.
Now, if you do have traces of illegal substances in your system, I can provide absolutely no advice whatsoever other than waiting until all traces have completely been flushed out of your system. You may need to seek medical advice to determine when such a timeframe will likely have passed, or seek out pertinent information on the web.
If you have anything in your system, you might as well not even bother taking a urinalysis, because you simply will not beat the test.
My first CDL employer, Reohl, even required a hair sample to be taken along with a urinalysis. The reason for the hair sample is simple: your hair serves as a testimony to any substances you may have ingested for the past four to six months, and even longer for longer strands of hair. Any substances you may have engaged in partaking within that time frame will show up in the hair follicle sample taken, and will show up in test results.
Back to the urinalysis, one driver confided to me that he was, at first, worried that a daily drug taken to combat the HIV virus might hinder his employment prospects. He soon found out that that the lab apparently only seeks out evidence of traces of illegal substances, because he passed every one of his pre-employment and random employment drug tests. Other than his regular HIV medication, he was clean, and apparently not even this daily regimen registered so much as a blip on his urinalysis, as the urinalysis test isn't designed to look for every known phamaceutical ever invented. The test only seeks out the illegal substances.
Still, he was worried about his employer finding out about his HIV status nonetheless. During the orientation, he, along with the other new indoctrinees, was asked to provide a list of current prescriptions. Providing the name of his HIV-related prescription would pretty much incriminate his HIV status, which he wasn't willing to do. I'd agree that it would be none of an employers' business about his medical state, and providing a list of medications would pretty much tell his employer things they didn't need to know. So he didn't provide the list of required medications. I mean, why should he? I wouldn't have.
Turns out, such a list was completely unnecessary, as he passed his first pre-employment test, and every subsequent, despite being on this daily HIV prescription.
Now, if you do have traces of illegal substances in your system, I can provide absolutely no advice whatsoever other than waiting until all traces have completely been flushed out of your system. You may need to seek medical advice to determine when such a timeframe will likely have passed, or seek out pertinent information on the web.
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