How does CSA 2010 define Truck Driver Fitness?
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Some guys think they are talented because they can eat and drive at the same time. That’s not Zero’s fault.
Truckers are at the heart of this nation and if Mr. Obama wants his steak, caviar, and lobster delivered fresh and ontime he’d better not screw with them.
What is CSA 2010? How does it compare to CSA 1861?
The sleep apnea thing is a little hard to buy. Virtually every truck driver I know has been diagnosed with sleep apnea and given a choice of getting treatment (and expensive equipment) or face losing their jobs.
These is already technology out there that will monitor the drivers eyes and warn the driver if he is dosing.
Next thing to come is to make this technology mandatory on all new vehicles.
Then later they will mandate that the technology will warn two or three times and then it will start a timer that will shut down the engine in a given amount of time.
Sounds like the Liberal Free Trade Globalist agenda at work....get American truckers out of the industry and replace them with Mexican drivers and trucks. This time, they will use bogus “physical condition” standards
We have already seen this tried when Bush opened up US roads to all Mexican trucks and truckers. That was a great day for Illegal Aliens and Drug Cartels...bad day for American truckers
This Economic Anti-American nonsense has got to stop. Both parties push the Free Trade Globalist agenda...and it ends up costing Americans and America trillions in lost jobs, revenue, and wealth redistribution.
And, getting creamed by a Mexican truck driven by a illiterate Mexican driver is not pretty.
Commercial drivers are required to meet basic medical requirements as part of their licensing. If I remember correctly, one of the provisions in these requirements is a mandatory medical exam (maybe annually, or every two years).
One of the things driving this safety initiative is the recognition by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) that some states have such accommodating laws governing the practice of medicine that these "exams" can be conducted by people who should not be considered doctors by any objective measure. Apparently, states that allow chiropractors to function as "primary care physicians" (I think California and New Jersey are among them) are the main culprits. The article mentioned one chiropractor in California who has an office at a major truck stop and gives full-blown "medical exams" that include a whole bunch of things (like vision testing, blood tests, etc.) that he is absolutely not qualified to do.
DOnt worry about it in 5 yrs all trucks will be auto-piolet and you will get a huge tax break if you give up the wheeel.
I just got wind of CSA 2010 yesterday. I’ve kinda been out of the loop for a month.
From what I’ve been able to find it’s a pilot in a few states right now but is supposed to go into full effect Nov 30.
It sounds to me like Obama’s trying to put some major screws into the trucking industry. My husband said a trucker called into Andrew Wilcow’s show yesterday stating that Zero is doing this because he wants to put truckers out of business and nationlize the railroad system.