Profile For Dylan S.

Hello guys! New CDL holder here looking for a little advice on a pickle I've found myself in.

About 2 weeks ago I graduated from roadmaster driver school and got my CDL. Roadmaster is owned by a certain company so they persuaded me to join that same company. So i took my hair test and UA and passed to get into school.

Well after gradation I leave to orientation and start my new path. 4 days in I am informed that I had failed the hair test and I was not going to be employed. Confused and defeated I left with my tail between my legs and headed home.

I had not used maruijuana in almost 16 months since I left California so I was very confused as to what could have happened. But of course there was no way to defend myself. After researching how the hair test is done and how it works it made complete sense what had happened.

My hair is very long, I've been growing it for about two years now. My test sample was done by the safty officer and when he had taken my sample he took it from the tip of a lock on the back of my head. He said he takes it from here because it's less noticeable. In my ignorance I agreed that was fine as I was under the impression hair test go back about 90 to 180 days. After arriving home in defeat my research found the medical standard way of testing was to cut from the root about an inch and a half of hair to measure 90 days of growth.

So my sample was from nearly two years back! Way past what I thought the test could measure. So for what ever reason the Safty officer was completely performing the test wrong and my ignorance has landed me in a bad place. Even the company poster dicribes how the test is to be done.

My research shows that this will be a failed test durring orientation on my DAC and should fall off after about three years. Not requiring a SAP or anything. And in Texas it is Illegal for a company to disclose a failed hair test.

So advice I'd give you guys is make sure your hair is cut if there's any chance there's traces of a substance in it. The 90-180 days is no standard if the sample taker is not medically trained on how to properly take the sample.

The advice I need is, Do you guys think there's anything I can do to save my career for the next three years? Could I challenge the results somehow to clear my DAC? Or do I just need to get a new job and wait for a few years and try again? It will suck having to lie about never failing a drug test but I've got to do what I've got to do.

I know I've screwed up. Thanks to anybody who's got anything to say, good or bad.

-Dylan