Maverick Hair Follicle Test

hi. new member of the forum here, been gathering lots of useful information here so i thought maybe i could contribute.

i attended maverick's orientation last week knowing they did a hair follicle screening which i had heard from several people only goes back three months. well it turns out those people were wrong. i admit i was a habitual marijuana user in my past, but i have been clean for about four months now. so i wasn't worried about my results showing positive. turns out i was positive. now i assume the results are quantitative since i gave them my leg hair. i don't shave my legs... so all my history showed up. unfortunately i was disqualified over a stupid little plant i used to smoke over four months ago. but that's life i guess. you reap what you sow. i'm pretty sure where i screwed up was giving them my leg hair. they gave me an option of head, chest, or leg hair. i just wasn't thinking. i feel like if i had given my head hair, i would have been cleared. oh well. on to the next company.

just a heads up for any of you new guys with a drug history thinking of applying to a company with hair tests.

Sorry about your experience.

Most folks would advise daily blazers to go for 6 months before doing a hair screen.

Out of curiosity - were you contacted by the test facility about the results and given the opportunity to explain the results - or just shown the door?

Keep in mind also - if this positive test gets reported - you will not be able to get hired on at another company, without completing a "return To Duty" SAP protocol.

Rick

The rules for hair follicle state at this time they can only use it to decide whether to hire you or not. You should not have a problem w another company. Search hair follicle testing and a bunch of info will come up!

What are "daily Blazers to go"

Someone who lights up the tokemaster daily.

Sorry about your experience.

Most folks would advise daily blazers to go for 6 months before doing a hair screen.

Out of curiosity - were you contacted by the test facility about the results and given the opportunity to explain the results - or just shown the door?

Keep in mind also - if this positive test gets reported - you will not be able to get hired on at another company, without completing a "return To Duty" SAP protocol.

Rick

it is a law that the MRO (medical review officer) talks to you first before they give the results to the company if the results are positive. that goes for urinalysis and hair test btw.

but they (some office lady) took me to an office and made me contact the MRO and had me report back to them. i came back and reluctantly told them the results were positive. they paid me for my time there at orientation (which softened the blow a little bit) and sent me on a bus back home.

also yes Chris, fortunately the hair follicle test is a non DOT drug screening and is solely for the company. they cannot release the results to the DOT or any other company.

Someone who lights up the tokemaster daily.

Ah! Of course! Going on about 6 now.

oh well. on to the next company.

Zac, I hope you will come back on our forum and post your results with finding employment. You sound so upbeat, but I fear you are a little misguided, just as you were initially about the whole process of hair testing. If I am wrong I would like to know about it.

I am curious now how you will now handle a question on an application that asks, "Have you ever failed a drug test before?"

I am hoping the best for you, but also would hope that others in here will take a lesson from your experience and get themselves clean for a minimum of six months before taking a hair test.

There was a considerable amount of misinformation in your post about hair testing, one of which was that your test results had nothing to do with the location of the hair they removed.

oh well. on to the next company.

Zac, I hope you will come back on our forum and post your results with finding employment. You sound so upbeat, but I fear you are a little misguided, just as you were initially about the whole process of hair testing. If I am wrong I would like to know about it.

I am curious now how you will now handle a question on an application that asks, "Have you ever failed a drug test before?"

I am hoping the best for you, but also would hope that others in here will take a lesson from your experience and get themselves clean for a minimum of six months before taking a hair test.

There was a considerable amount of misinformation in your post about hair testing, one of which was that your test results had nothing to do with the location of the hair they removed.

There's also a question on the DOT Med form (new 2016 version), regarding the "use of illegal drugs in the last two years".

A lot depends on if Maverick reported this on his DAC. Regardless of the debate on whether hair testing is DOT testing - a failed drug screen is a failed drug screen.

And since "technically", DOT REQUIRES testing - and if urine wasn't pulled also - one has to think that a HAIR ONLY TEST is considered acceptable, or all these companies that are doing HAIR ONLY are in violation of DOT regs.

So - as has been advised in other threads - PULL A DAC (and maybe a PSP) and see if this has or has not been reported.

Rick