commonrail:
berewic:
[Pot shows up in urine tests for 28 days after the event so any that are smoking the stuff needs to think very carefully about which to give up, their driving career or the pot.
this is true,however just because you have traces of pot in your urine,it don`t mean your unfit to drive.
No, but doubt it would impress your gaffer very much…
Truckulent:
Harry Monk:
Just found this…Cannabis may make you a safer driver by Jonathon Carr-Brown, Sunday Times, 13 August 2000
TAKING the high road may not be so dangerous after all. Ministers are set to be embarrassed by government-funded research which shows that driving under the influence of drugs makes motorists more cautious and has a limited impact on their risk of crashing.
In the study, conducted by the Transport Research Laboratory, “grade A” cannabis specially imported from America was given to 15 regular users. The doped- up drivers were then put through four weeks of tests on driving simulators to gauge reaction times and awareness.
Regular smokers were used because previous tests in America using first- timers resulted in the volunteers falling over and feeling ill. The laboratory found its guinea pigs through what it described as a “■■■■■■■■■■■ technique” - one known user was asked to find another after being promised anonymity and exemption from prosecution agreed with the Home Office.
Instead of proving that drug-taking while driving increased the risk of accidents, researchers found that the mellowing effects of cannabis made drivers more cautious and so less likely to drive dangerously.
Although the cannabis affected reaction time in regular users, its effects appear to be substantially less dangerous than fatigue or drinking. Research by the Australian Drugs Foundation found that cannabis was the only drug tested that decreased the relative risk of having an accident.
The findings will embarrass ministers at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) who commissioned the study after pressure from motoring organisations and anti-drug campaigners. Lord Whitty, the transport minister, will receive the report later this month.
Last week police revealed details of new drug-driving tests to be administered by the roadside, which were received with some amusement. They require suspected drug- drivers to stand on one leg, lean back and touch their nose with their eyes closed, and to count to 30 silently with their eyes shut. This is apparently difficult for those on a drug trip.
However, if the findings are less than frightening on the effects of marijuana, they may convince ministers to put more money into raising driver awareness of fatigue. Tiredness is now blamed for causing 10% of all fatal accidents, compared with 6% for alcohol and 3% for drugs.
As I suspected, it does seem that driving while tired is more dangerous.
if you guys were off on your hols - would you feel happy if the pilots were sat in the cockpit smoking weed and/or/worse?
Wouldn’t give a ■■■■ as I would stoned outta my head anyway
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It’s not theirs anymore,
This is our England now.
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personally, i don’t give a stuff what my night man does in my cab that i use on dayshift, as long as it’s cleaned up, swept out and fit for road use in the morning then he can smoke as much green / solid as he wants, he can have 10 hookers in the bunk on his break if he wants, as long as i don’t get grief for it during my shift.
Of course the TM isn’t interested if he’s getting the work done! personally, i don’t like grasses, they’ll do anything to save their skin and stab you in the back as soon as look at you.
Have a word and tell him to clean his act up if he wants to do what he does when driving it as it can draw heat onto yourself if you get a tug, you never know, he might just listen and you aren’t gonna fall out with any off the other drivers for snitching ;
One of the reasons more firms are introducing random drug tests.
Truckulent:
commonrail:
berewic:
[Pot shows up in urine tests for 28 days after the event so any that are smoking the stuff needs to think very carefully about which to give up, their driving career or the pot.
this is true,however just because you have traces of pot in your urine,it don`t mean your unfit to drive.
No, but doubt it would impress your gaffer very much…
That’ll be down to passive smoking then boss 