The new FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse will be going live on January 6th, 2020. The clearing house is designed to have drug and alcohol positive test results entered into the system by the motor carrier and the carrier's medical review officer (MRO) = Doctor. Motor carriers and MRO's are required by law to enter any positive results for drug and alcohol. In addition they are required to run queries in the system for any driver applicant and current drivers.

Under the FMCSA mandate, drivers must register in the clearing house and will be required to give permission to the clearinghouse to have a specific carrier pull a query. If a driver does not register and/or give permission for carriers to run the query, that driver must be removed from any Safety Sensitive Function (driving) until the query can be run. The query is at no cost to the driver, the company (NWT) will be required to pay $1.25 per query.

ALL driver leased to NWT MUST register in the Clearinghouse by January 6th 2020.

Please visit the attached link to register.
https://clearinghouse.fmcsa.dot.gov/

Any questions regarding this mandate may be address with our Safety and Compliance Department.