The Nation : Truckers Back Drug Tests

The nation’s largest trucking industry group said it supports random drug testing of truck drivers and opposes increasing the speed limit to 65 m.p.h. Thomas Donohue, president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Assn., told a news conference his organization would back “a universal, fair, equitable and constitutionally proper procedure” to test truckers for drugs. On permitting states to raise the speed limit from 55 m.p.h. to 65 m.p.h. on rural interstate highways, Donohue said his group is against it because it would cause more accidents and boost fuel consumption.