October Kicks Off With
Customer Service Week

This year our theme for customer service is “Connecting with Customers” – all of us at AADT would like to thank our client’s for their loyal support. Many of you have seen the evolution of our organizations name, beginning with CalData in 1995, than C-DATA in 2001 and now the American Alliance Drug Testing AADT in 2007-08. For now, AADT is a subsidiary/DBA of C-DATA. We have steadily grown and improved our knowledge, services and technology to better serve the client. Our goal is to continue to offer the client great customer service through a knowledgeable friendly staff, quality products and services and dedication to be proactive with issues that affect the commercial transportation industry.

On-Line Access to Your Account

Web Access to Your Account - We are excited to introduce our new name and look (logo) and services like website account access and email invoicing. Now you can make changes to your company information, add or remove a driver/employee, view your company random history or renew online; all with a secure log in. Only the administrator of your company will be able to authorize, who within your company, has access to your account and which features may be accessible to them.

Email Invoicing - Now you can also receive your AADT related invoices through email. No more having to open the mail, sort or risk misplacing your invoice. Contact Dianna Lee to sign up today, it’s free!

2008 Renewals
Have Been Mailed!

AADT – American Alliance Drug Testing, 2008 Renewals documents were mailed out the first week of October, in fact they were mailed October 2nd, so please contact our office if you do not receive yours by October 26th.

Be sure to thoroughly read all of your enclosed materials including the Consortium Agreement Form #003. First, review the Company Profile Report to make sure all of your information is up-to-date and accurate, make any needed corrections and return it with your Renewal Form (#005). It’s very important that the Consortium Agreement form (#003) must be completed on both sides.

Please note that if you are an owner-operator, this form must be signed by you only, this also pertains to the Renewal Form. Please, no wives, friends or employees – only the truck owner-operator. For a company, both the Renewal Form and the Consortium Agreements must be signed by an authorized company representative (previously authorized in our files). Remember, any incomplete renewals will be returned and this will delay your enrollment processing!

AADT is Sponsoring Supervisor
Training Seminars October 20th

Once again AADT will be offering a Supervisor Training Class in both Spanish and English at the Construction Truck & Equipment Expo and Latino Truck Show on Saturday October 20th. This year the seminars will be at the Sheraton Suites, Chardonnay Room at the Fairplex in Pomona, CA.

The first class will be offered from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and a Spanish speaking class from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Dr. Karmen Payne with Karmen EAP International will be the instructor again this year for this three (3) hour comprehensive Supervisor Training educational classes. Last year we received many compliments on the thoroughness and educational benefits of Dr. Payne’s class. This class will include one (1) hour of training on alcohol misuse and one (1) hour on controlled substances as required under the DOT, and as an added bonus the additional hour Dr. Payne will instruct you on what is required once the donor has tested positive and steps needed to complete the Return–to-Duty process. Employers please note that this will be a great opportunity for you to have additional supervisors trained or to refresh your or your present supervisors training! Anyone interested can contact AADT at (800) 820-9314 or complete and return the enrollment flyer in the magazine.

For those that are unable to attend these classes, we do offer the training through a video tape (VHS) or DVD. Contact us at (800) 820-9314 for more information.

Federal regulations (CFR 49 Part 382) require that any company that has commercial drivers must have a designated person to supervise those drivers. This person must have completed at least 60 minute training on alcohol misuse and 60 minute on controlled substances use. Supervisor training also holds true for companies with employees that want to initiate reasonable suspicion testing for any of their employees and has this in their written company policy. The person designated needs to be someone that interacts, preferable on a daily basis with the employee, knows their work habits, gauges their attendance, and would be able to notice any visible changes in the employee’s appearance or behavioral patterns. Documentation is also a very important step leading up to the initiating of reasonable suspicion testing. (Refer to §382.603 & §382.307)

Although once you have been trained, there is no current requirement to retake the course, but if it has been some time since you completed the training or your trained supervisor has had a position change and is no longer involved in the daily interaction with the employees you may want to consider training another person as a back-up. For just a few hours of time the investment can prove to be very cost efficient should an issue arise in the future.

Come visit us at the Construction Truck &
Equipment Expo and Truck Show Latino booth #761.
Stop by and introduce yourself, meet our staff and drop your business card into our box for our drawing for a free AADT golf shirt!

Truck Driver on Pain killers
Jailed For Fatal Crash

Michael C. Wojcinski is a father of five from Baltimore who had abided by the law for most of his life and worked six days a week driving a tractor-trailer to support his family, according to his attorney.

But according to a prosecutor, the dose of narcotic painkiller Wojcinski took on Sept. 15, 2005, was 2 1/2 to five times greater than the dose prescribed to him. Because of that, Thomas W. Caruso, a 58-year-old man, was “obliterated” in a gruesome crash while driving to his job as an Internal Revenue Service agent, said Senior Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Steve Janosko.

And Wojcinski, who pleaded guilty on May 17 to the vehicular manslaughter of Caruso, was sentenced on Thursday to six years in prison, with no chance for release on parole until he serves 85 percent of the term, under the state’s No Early Release Act.

On Sept. 15, 2005, Wojcinski was driving an 18-wheeler east on Route 70 in Manchester, a two-lane road, when the dose of oxycodone he took caused him to fall asleep at the wheel, said Janosko, supervisor of the prosecutor’s vehicular homicide unit.

It was about 5:15 a.m., and Caruso was on his way to work in his Honda Civic when he saw the oncoming tractor-trailer move into his lane. Caruso moved over to the shoulder, and so did the Freightliner. He moved to the grass, and so did the rig. “There was nowhere else for Mr. Caruso to go,” Janosko said at a sentencing hearing for Wojcinski.

Janosko said the victim’s widow, who was in the courtroom accompanied by five other relatives, did not wish to speak at the hearing, but had asked him to read the medical examiner’s report on her husband’s death. Janosko went on to recite gruesome injuries from the report. Also at the behest of the widow, Janosko also showed Wojcinski a photograph of the victim.

“I’d like to say to the Caruso family, I’m very, very sorry. I really am,” Wojcinski said, turning to face the victim’s relatives. “There’s not a day that doesn’t go by that I don’t think of Mr. Caruso and the accident. I really wish it was me (who was killed).”

Wojcinski went on to say that he had authorization from the Department of Transportation to take the painkillers while driving because of shoulder and carpal tunnel injuries. He said his employer, J.B. Hunt, also knew he was taking the painkillers.

“I never hid it,” he said. “The amount I was taking, after seven years, it builds up in your system. Once again, I just want to say, I’m sorry.”

Janosko said that as someone with a commercial driver’s license, Wojcinski should not have been taking any narcotics.

“They have to deal with the fact that there was tremendous trauma to Mr. Caruso,” Villano said. “There was no one to hug, to say goodbye to.” Villano also said she was concerned that anyone would be given permission to operate a tractor-trailer under the influence of narcotic painkillers.