The airlines’ request follows a similar petition by railroad trade associations on Aug. 6. Also, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., the second-largest U.S. railroad, and eight labor unions filed a legal call to answer to the new rule Aug. 13.

The Transportation Department has current the industry requests and “will respond to these petitions,” the agency uttered in an e-mailed statement, without core added specific.

Transportation Secretary Mary Peters announced the repaired rule June 30 as a means by which anything is reached to divide down on drug-test cheating. The rule covers 12.1 million employers, workers and test monitors.

U.S. truck driver tests may not be rigorous enough, with 42 percent of screening locations visited by investigators failing to follow proper procedures, the Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, found in a study published in May.

In 2007, the GAO found that give in exchange drivers can easily cheat on drug tests by using fake licenses and submitting diluted urine samples. GAO investigators used bogus licenses to undergo screening at all 24 test sites examined, showing users could evade detection by sending others in their place.

The airlines cited the new rule’sitting provision that requires direct observation of tests for workers returning to duty or taking follow-up examinations.

They also cited regulations forcing observers to seek information regarding employees to remove clothing to ensure the workers don’t be the subject of a prosthetic device.

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