Michigan opens bridge for border crossings
Michigan’s Ambassador Bridge Plaza now has a two-lane road for inbound commercial vehicles from Canada.
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Focus on health coming
January 12, 2012
| by: Overdrive Staff
Health issues affecting all truckers will take center stage in the next few weeks.
First, a final rule on the start of the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners is expected to be announced by the end of January. Drivers will be required to have their commercial drivers license health exams conducted by a certified medical examiner. Examiners will have to take a standardized test for certification and undergo regular training. The requirement would phase in over the next few years.
Also, recommendations that could help frame a final rule regulating obstructive sleep apnea are in the works from advisory groups to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. The agency could receive the drafts as early as February.
As these events unfold how is your health shaping up? Take the poll on this site (overdriveonline.com) about your health goals in the new year. And look for a story how the health proposals could affect you and your business in the February Overdrive.
here we go again
The federal government seems to find it easy to make and enforce crippling rules to the trucking industry! When the people that make these rules have to abide by them or the auto owners, I believe this practice would quickly slow down!
They need to go after the car’s on the road
IT’S NOT TRUCKS IT’S THE CAR’S ON THE ROAD TEXTING ON THE PHONE CUT OFF’S THE TRUCKS
[...] Overdrive reported on the rule‘s expected announcement in January, saying its requirements would be phased in over a period of several years. [...]
This got to be a joke.it all about how much money to make.why not all driver car to take medical test too