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A modest proposal for hours flexibility: ‘Gold Card drivers’

Trucker/marathoner/blogger Jeff Clark offers a well-thought-out idea for hours-of-service flexibility, giving the stellar, safe drivers out there a new name and the freedom to use their status to run how they please: “Gold card drivers” are “drivers who do not get into accidents,” he says. “They don’t get moving violations. They don’t get out-of-service violations, and they do not do drugs. These drivers deserve to be recognized. They also have a lot to teach new drivers. The standards to reach gold card status must be tough, but attainable. My proposal would be 1,000,000 miles without an at-fault DOT reportable accident, moving violations, driver out-of-service violations, or positive drug tests. The reward would be to be left alone. These drivers have demonstrated the outstanding judgment needed to achieve those standards. They do not need some bureaucrat in Washington to tell them how to do their job. These drivers should be allowed to throw away their log books and run the way they know how….”

April 16, 2010