Random Program vs Consortium

A common question is “should I use a random program or a consortium?”

When deciding on if you should put your company into a consortium or run a separate random program, there are two key components:

• Size of the company
• Client preference

Obviously if your client prefers one of the other, go with what they want. If they don’t have a preference we generally follow the rules:

Any client with 10 drivers or less be put into a consortium and any Company with more than 10 drivers be put into a random program.

• Owner-operators are always in a consortium per DOT regulations
• any client with 10 drivers or less is put into a consortium
• any client with 11 drivers or more is in its own random program

Random Program

Learn how to run a Random Program in these two lessons:

• Creating a Random Program
• Managing a Random Program

In short, the process will consist of:

1. Setting the client up as a customer in AIS and ordering a subaccount
2. Creating a pool for the customer
   • Setting testing frequency
   • Setting testing rates
   • Setting alternate preferences
3. Getting an updated employee roster from the client and uploading that into AIS
4. Generating your first random pull and sending out authorization forms

🚀 Fastest Labs Consortium 🚀

To add an owner-operator or standard client to the Fastest Labs Consortium, simply follow these steps:

• Have the new client sign the PandaDoc Template: Master DOT Consortium Agreement
  • (located in PandaDoc under Templates->Shared with Me)
• Set the client up as a customer in AIS and order a subaccount
• Conduct Pre-Employment Drug Test(s) if applicable:
  • Driver is a new employee
  • Driver has been deactivated from a random testing pool for over 30 days
• Request an updated employee roster from the customer that includes:
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Employee ID
  • DL State
  • DL Number
  • Birthdate
  • Email
  • Phone Number
• Upload the employee roster
• Click Employee List Updated
• Request Consortium Addition from Fastest Labs Home Office

Once all of these steps are completed, Fastest Labs will:

• Send a Consortium Participation Report to you and the client
• Alert the client at the beginning of the next quarter to update their roster and proceed with the random process