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The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Mexico-licensed commercial driver Mario Alberto Leal-Salas to be an imminent hazard to public safety, thereby prohibiting him from operating any commercial motor vehicle in the United States.
On November 16, 2020, Leal-Salas, who holds a U.S.-accepted Mexican commercial driver’s license (CDL) and who was at the time employed by W. Freight Services, LLC, was operating a commercial truck on Georgia State Route 96 in Taylor County, Georgia, when he failed to stop for a red traffic light at the intersection of GA SR 3, initiating a multi-vehicle, chain-reaction crash and fire. Three people, including Leal-Salas, suffered severe injuries.
A subsequent investigation by FMCSA found that approximately three weeks prior to the crash, Leal-Salas, who was then under consideration for employment by a different trucking company, tested positive for a cocaine metabolite, benzoylecgonine, during a mandatory pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Any driver who fails any drug and alcohol test, or refuses to submit to testing, is immediately prohibited from operating a commercial motor vehicle, with that information recorded in FMCSA’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse — Leal-Salas’ drug test failure included.
www.thetrucker.com
Holy crap. The freaking drug test should be the thing that shut him down.
On November 16, 2020, Leal-Salas, who holds a U.S.-accepted Mexican commercial driver’s license (CDL) and who was at the time employed by W. Freight Services, LLC, was operating a commercial truck on Georgia State Route 96 in Taylor County, Georgia, when he failed to stop for a red traffic light at the intersection of GA SR 3, initiating a multi-vehicle, chain-reaction crash and fire. Three people, including Leal-Salas, suffered severe injuries.
A subsequent investigation by FMCSA found that approximately three weeks prior to the crash, Leal-Salas, who was then under consideration for employment by a different trucking company, tested positive for a cocaine metabolite, benzoylecgonine, during a mandatory pre-employment drug and alcohol screening. Any driver who fails any drug and alcohol test, or refuses to submit to testing, is immediately prohibited from operating a commercial motor vehicle, with that information recorded in FMCSA’s Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse — Leal-Salas’ drug test failure included.
Truck driver from Mexico prohibited from operating commercial vehicles in U.S. following multi-vehicle crash, prior failed drug test
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Mexico-licensed commercial driver
www.thetrucker.com
Holy crap. The freaking drug test should be the thing that shut him down.
