DRUG USE BY TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVERS

Blood or urine samples or both were obtained from 317 of 359 randomly selected tractor-trailer drivers asked to participate in a driver health survey conducted at a truck weighing station on Interstate 40 in Tennessee. Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these in either blood or urine. Cannabinoids were found in 15% of the drivers' blood or urine; nonprescription stimulants such as phenylpropanolamine were found in 12%; prescription stimulants such as amphetamine were found in 5%; cocaine metabolites were found in 2%; and alcohol was found in less than 1%. These results provide the first objective information about the use of potentially abusive drugs by tractor-trailer drivers. The extent of driver impairment attributable to the observed drugs is uncertain because of the complex relationship between performance and drug concentrations.

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  American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

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• Authors:
  • LUND, A K
  • Preusser, D F
  • Blomberg, R D
  • Williams, A F
• Publication Date: 1988-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 648-661
• Serial:
  • Journal of Forensic Sciences
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
  • ISSN: 0022-1198
  • EISSN: 1556-4029
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1556-4029

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Amphetamines; Blood alcohol levels; Blood analysis; Cocaine; Driver performance; Drivers; Drugs; Impaired drivers; Medicine; Personnel performance; Stimulants; Testing; Tractor trailer combinations; Truck drivers; Urine
• Old TRIS Terms: Blood tests; Driver impairment
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00484974
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-040 619
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 1990 12:00AM