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Channel 19
Sleep apnea reg recommendations: Comments closed?
If you’ve missed the news as yet, the recommendations put forward by the joint meeting of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on sleep apnea entered a 30-day comment period late last week. Or did they? The agency sent out updates to various media […]
April 24, 2012
Business
FMCSA withdraws April 19 sleep apnea proposal
After announcing its proposal to adopt recommendations from two of its advisory committees, FMCSA the same day withdrew the proposal.
April 24, 2012
Voices
Roadside Attractions
New life for old classics, Love’s connect app, the Aurora Borealis and more industry news and oddities are featured.
April 1, 2012
Business
LogBook
Driver harassment, the hours rule, Navistar’s engine transision, sleep apnea regulations and more industry news items are featured.
March 20, 2012
Business
EEOC charges Celadon violated disability act
Agency alleges carrier unlawfully subjected driver applicants to medical screenings and rejected them because of disabilities or perceived disabilities.
March 2, 2012
Business
Pulse
Years from now it might turn out that EOBRs and apnea screening are two intrusions that never lived up to the bluster.
March 1, 2012
Channel 19
Back to basics in apnea debate: The importance of sleep
Last night on the Truth About Trucking Live online radio program of fuel hauler Allen Smith and his wife, Donna, discussion of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board’s joint work on the issue of sleep apnea gave way at a crucial moment to a reiteration of the reality of the […]
February 24, 2012
Channel 19
More than a typo? Split sleeper wishful thinking
Trans Products / Trans Services Regulatory Manager Rich Wilson, during a break between sessions of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee meeting in Alexandria, Va., early this month, pointed out a couple curious problems with the medical forms some states are using. One, he pointed out, defined stage 3 hypertension as a blood pressure reading […]
February 23, 2012
Channel 19
Language of MCSAC / Medical Review Board recommended apnea guidelines — more from D.C.
Contrasting viewpoints coming together — or not — made for an interesting day today at the first of four days’ worth of meetings of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee. Today’s agenda was dedicated to drafting language toward formal recommendation to the agency of potential guidance to adopt in future rulemaking relating to sleep […]
February 6, 2012
Business
FMCSA group eyes sleep apnea regs
One recommendation would require all drivers with a body mass index measurement of 35 or higher to be tested for sleep apnea.
February 6, 2012
Channel 19
Are fuel-injector-cleaning diesel additives worth it?; Apnea update
I’m at the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee’s joint meeting with the Medical Review Board today — watch my Twitter feed for updates from the meeting, where committee members are slated to draft guidance on regulation of the sleep apnea condition as it relates to interstate driver medical qualifications. Find prior reporting from recent-past […]
February 6, 2012
Business
The Apnea Hurdle
Coming regulations would force reckoning with a condition common to truckers. And that’s not all that could make passing the medical exam even harder.
February 1, 2012
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