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Tag: Ed Webb
Channel 19
Thursday round-up: CARB protest, highway babies, apnea follow-up
Owner-operator Loren Hutnick leads a rally, driver Mike Hawthorne packs a birthing kit, and Kenneth Dice decides fighting for a CDL is not worth it when authorities can’t even make heads or tails of what’s required relative to sleep apnea and medical certification…
April 10, 2014
Voices
Amid government shutdown furor, a tap on the sleep apnea brakes
For now. There are indications that Congressional mandating of FMCSA taking a rulemaking approach to any apnea regulation would slow the process down, though some readers didn’t see it that way.
October 3, 2013
Channel 19
Driver action on sleep apnea, CSA, EOBRs, cross-border trucking
Regular readers will recall my post from last month following the first annual Truck Driver Social Media Convention, which spurred on driver advocate Frederick Schaffner to be a presence in D.C. at the November meeting of the FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committtee. There, a large part of the discussion was devoted to standards for […]
November 23, 2011
Channel 19
Bank robbery: The things some will do for health care
Perhaps you’ve heard this story already — desperate for something he thinks is totally out of his financial range, man does something over-the-top, creating a national media circus along the way. The latest variant comes from Gaston County in North Carolina in the form of a former beverage delivery driver feeling so much in need […]
June 23, 2011
Channel 19
‘Medically certified’ — join us for radio show Wednesday to probe driver health regs
At 7 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow evening (Wed., June 22) I’ll join Truth About Trucking Live hosts Allen & Donna Smith as well as my colleague Max Kvidera for a special show probing the issues raised by the current, June Truckers News cover story Kvidera and I penned about state and federal regs for driver […]
June 21, 2011
Business
CSA and Safety Scores
Your driving record carries more weight than ever under CSA. Learn how to access your data, understand it and use it to your advantage.
April 2, 2011
Channel 19
FMCSA listens: PSP update clarifies co-driver inspection violations
While I’m on the subject of CSA, I thought I’d share a bit of an update to this month’s Truckers News CSA cover story. In it, during dicussion of the DataQs system and Ed Webb’s case (which I wrote about yesterday), OOIDA’s Joe Rajkovacz raises a very particular problem with Pre-Employment Screening Program driver inspection/crash […]
March 4, 2011
Channel 19
One driver’s war: Taming CSA and the DataQs challenge process
I finally got the the opportunity to meet Boonville, Ind.-based driver Ed Webb (pictured) in person yesterday afternoon at the newly reopened downtown TA here in Nashville (speaking of which, Aaron Tippen’s performing tomorrow morning there at 10 a.m. and 12 noon if you’re headed down Tennessee way today). Webb was a source in my […]
March 3, 2011
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