Random Drug/Alcohol Testing

[Ed Wright]

Fun, fun, fun. Right Bobby?

[buzzinhalfdozen]

There's a racer at our local track (has won many races..past track champ ect.) that appears to be drunk all the time. Now he's been tossed before, for drinking while racing knowing him for 30 years I really can't tell if he's been drinking or just acting. I'm just glad he doesn't run the same class as my son. He's never had an accident that I'm aware of but as with most things I'm sure it's just a matter of time. Like everything else some folks take things a bit too far. Most racers I know like to kick back and have a few drinks in the evening...I don't have an issue with that as long as they're not drunk and in the other lane. Joe

[Lyn Smith]

Go to Competion Plus and read the story about the Pro stock bike racer at Rt 66 who got nailed for not producing enough in the alotted time!!!!!

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Lyn Smith

Go to Competion Plus and read the story about the Pro stock bike racer at Rt 66 who got nailed for not producing enough in the alotted time!!!!!

Read that earlier, did it say he filled 5 or 6 cups?, and it mentions "low temperature" somewhere. How do you control that?

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

Read that earlier, did it say he filled 5 or 6 cups?, and it mentions "low temperature" somewhere. How do you control that?

Guys have "holsters" that fit under their armpits. In a perfect world it keeps the "sample" at legal temperature levels.

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by art leong

Guys have "holsters" that fit under their armpits. In a perfect world it keeps the "sample" at legal temperature levels.

Interesting Art. When testing for work, we were given those little hospital gowns to cover your birthday suit and led to a room with no water.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

Interesting Art. When testing for work, we were given those little hospital gowns to cover your birthday suit and led to a room with no water.

When we were tested random, you didn't take any clothes off. They would put a blue dye in the toilet bowl, and turn off the water to the sinks. You went into the bathroom by yourself, they did not watch you pee. Sometimes they used our bathrooms, sometimes they would bring in their own trailer.
One major gripe we had was, they would grab you as you were swiping your time card to go home. Which usually meant you had showered and gone to the bathroom minutes before.
This was done by an independant company. NYC tried doing their own testing for a short while. But there was a lot of cheating going on by the testers. I had a friend I worked with fail a test. He was in the reserves and was ramdomly tested by them 16 hours later and found clean. He got some lawyers involved and the sample was retested it checked positive for cocaine. And they also found out he was pregnant. The testors were switching samples for people they knew.

[art leong]

I was part of random testing when I worked. They gave us 3 hours to produce a sample. If you didn't you failed. There were some that suffered "shy bladder syndrome" One guy couldn't fill the cup up to the line and each time he gave them a sample they toosed it and said start over. He "failed" and got fired, but got a lawyer. And 3 years later he got his job back, all seniority, and an almost 7 figure settlement.
It's really simple. First place don't drink in excess the night before you race. If you have a few they should be out of your system by the time you have to test. Second, drink a lot of water before you go for the test, especially if you have a shy bladder.
Third and most important. Don't do drugs. It takes up to a month or more for pot to be gone from your system. And don't think the remedies like goldenseal work. They will flush your system out a small bit quicker(days not weeks). But I know of at least 3 guys that are trying to sue. Because they lost their jobs. One had the gaul to gripe that they used their daughters urine and it tested positive.