CDL Drug & Alcohol Testing Program
PSATS CDL Drug and Alcohol Testing Program
The Program:
The PSATS CDL Program has been recognized for years as the best, most trusted local government and small employer CDL program in Pennsylvania. Our goal is to make it easy for you to comply with state and federal CDL employee drug and alcohol testing requirements and vehicle operation regulations while keeping your costs to a minimum.
Benefits
By joining, you, too, can benefit from the following full range of services that the PSATS CDL Program provides:
- Complete confidentiality
- Assistance with CDL employee and vehicle record-keeping requirements
- Online management of employee rosters
- No charge for changing employees
- Full compliance with all CDL testing requirements
- Sample personnel policy
- Non-CDL testing available
- Testing sites statewide
- Online scheduling of employee tests
- Online access to test results
- Certificate of annual membership
- Toll-free help from support staff
federal law
The intent of the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 was to improve highway safety in two ways: 1) by ensuring that drivers of large vehicles are qualified to operate them; and 2) by getting unsafe and unqualified drivers off the road. Following up on the 1986 law, Congress passed the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991, which requires the regular and random drug and alcohol testing of employees with commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) to further ensure the safety of public highways.
A CDL is required to operate vehicles that meet any of the following definitions:
CDL Types:
Class A – Any combination of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating, or GVWR, of 26,001 pounds or more, provided the GVWR of the vehicle being towed is greater than 10,000 pounds.
Class B – Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 pounds or more, or any such vehicle towing a vehicle not in excess of 10,000 pounds GVWR.
Class C – Any single vehicle with a GVWR less than 26,001 pounds that: is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver; is placarded for hazardous materials; or is a school bus.
For more information, call the PSATS CDL Program at (800) 235-7579.
