So is DOT Actually Watching and Investigating Fraudulent Behavior Associated with Drug Testing?

We hear this question quite regularly, and the answer is Yes!

The FMCSA issued a Notice of Proposed Exclusion (NOPE) to a Elizabeth “Betsy” Pope, and Eastgate Laboratory Testing, in Tennessee and all other places that it was doing business.

On January 20, 2015, the agency notifyed Ms. Pope that she had engaged in serious noncompliance. In the NOPE, the FMCSA stated that the DOT’s Office of the Inspector General conducted a criminal investigation of the company’s activities.

On August 18, 2015, The Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a decision and order under the Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs that excludes a service agent, Elizabeth “Betsy” Pope d/b/a Eastgate Laboratory Testing, from providing drug and alcohol testing services in any capacity to any DOT regulated employer for a period of 5 years.

Ms. Pope and her company provided Medical Review Officer services to DOT-regulated trucking companies when Ms. Pope was not qualified to act as a Medical Review Officer.

Read the Federal Register notice on the Public Interest Exclusion. – See more at: https://www.transportation.gov/odapc/news#sthash.CArxyW2b.dpu