I just have a couple of items on the list to discuss this quarter. Please contact me directly if you have any questions on the information below.

Collection Site Fees

If your company uses a clinic for a drug test or alcohol test to be done, please know that NASTC does not pay for those services.  Your company is responsible for any and all fees accrued by using a clinic. These fees may be billed to your company directly from the clinic or if you use a Quest Diagnostics Clinic the fees will be billed from the clinic-to our lab-to NASTC-to you. PLEASE MAKE SURE THE CLINIC YOU USE HAS YOUR COMPANY INFORMATION FOR BILLING. Again, NASTC does not pay any fees generated by using a clinic for collections.

Updating Your Driver Roster

PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE A DRIVER’S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER ON ANY DRUG OR ALCOHOL TESTING PAPERWORK, WE NO LONGER USE THIS DATA. PLEASE USE THE DRIVER’S CDL# AND STATE OF ISSUE (EXAMPLE: TX452843J33).

As you know, NASTC sends you your driver roster every quarter before a new quarter starts, asking that you update it and send it back to us by a certain date. You may also add and delete drivers as you go through the quarter. You would just simply need to send an email to nastc.driverroster@nastc.com giving us the driver first and last name, date of birth and CDL# and state of issue and ask us to ADD or DELETE the driver from your roster. It’s that easy. It is very important that you keep your driver roster updated with NASTC. Your company is not in compliance if you are not updating your roster with us.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

If you are a Urine Collector, please remember, the Collector CANNOT be a relative, spouse or ex-spouse of the donor being tested.

If you are a trained collector or trained STT, you must have your email registered to receive List Serve Notices from FMCSA. Please see 40.33(a) in Part 40 of the regulations in your training book.

Please make sure your random selections are completed within the quarter they are selected, IT IS REQUIRED. Always make sure whether the driver was selected for Drug Only or Drug and Alcohol.

Check your certification date on your Collector Training and STT Training. You must be trained every 5 years.

Please make sure you have anyone in your company that supervises a driver trained in Reasonable Suspicion Training for Supervisors.

Any NASTC member that is not on our Drug & Alcohol Testing Program, please give me a call and let’s compare your existing program to our program. You probably do not realize what you are missing! We have an awesome program with NO YEARLY FEE and NO PER DRIVER FEE. My direct number is 615-989-9152, I am looking forward to hearing from you!