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Excuse me, sir, do you have any implied consent?
Unpacking the rules around post-accident drug/alcohol testing in the wake of a Utah nurse detained by police after refusing “to do a blood draw on an unconscious patient,” who also happened to be a trucker.
September 5, 2017
Business
Hours of service and the need for flexibility: What docs, nurses and truckers have in common
Parallels in nursing and trucking hours regs and practices, as the debate over flexibility continues in both: “None of the issues regarding sleep-deprived safety will be solved with a one-size-fits-all rule, in any industry, as long as human beings are doing the jobs.”
March 15, 2017
Business
Do you even skill, bro?
“Skilled” or “unskilled?”… “Beware the trappings of titles, they often only mean a difference in insurance premiums, and being a professional doesn’t require one.”
January 19, 2017
Business
Truckers do see the strangest things
Sound off: What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen on the road? For Wendy, there’s no doubt: Among the professions in her past, trucking brings the most when it comes to weirdness.
January 8, 2016
Business
Boldly breaking laws others aren’t allowed to break
Wendy back on the licensing soapbox — “It is fundamentally against the law to practice any profession that requires a state-tested license without completing that license process.”…
July 17, 2015
Business
When the future presses into the present and the past needs attention
Nursing homes — like trucking, in some ways: “You only hear about the evil people who can’t seem to act right, and horror stories about abuse and neglect.”
February 16, 2015
Business
Say no to twerking
“I’m pretty certain twerking will be solely responsible for Armageddon, and the subsequent zombie apocalypse to follow shortly thereafter.”
September 22, 2013
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