Drug/Alcohol Testing Consortium

For a single truck operator the easiest one to join is CCMI which is affiliated with OOIDA. Call their member services department and they can get you all set up, it will cost your annual membership of $45 plus $100 per driver per year which includes the tests except for post accident and return to duty (after a positive result).

I use a smaller, local consortium that is much cheaper, but they only have a few offices so they are not a good fit for an OTR company. You can ask around at a smaller occupational medicine office, somewhere that already does DOT physcials and drug tests, they may have a local consortium that you can join for less money and hassle that is FMCSA compliant.

 

i am with cmci

 

Nastc is $105 one time fee and then $35 for each test

 

It has been a couple of years since I was with the OOIDA program, I guess the rates have gone up. There are other options out there, you just have to look for them, but still those rates are not that bad.

 

I found a local outfit that does drug testing and they beat the pants off nastc and ooida's affiliate. It cost me $100 and that included my pre-employment and any random, everything I needed to be in compliance. So, just check around where you live and you'll find something more affordable.

 

one thing about cmci is you don't pay for your random drug tests only requested drug test, like pre-hires or post accident, but if they call you for a random that is covered in your membership costs.

 

Isn't NASTC a do it yourself type of thing? CMCI is a lot simpler unless NASTC changed in the past couple years...

 

You can do it yourself, or you can go to any Quest diagnostics. I think if you do it yourself there might be no $35 surcharge