If you look at the weight in the story. Its well under the need for a commercial license. But your right, all UPS needs to step up to the plate and promote him. Get him away from driving. That would have been the right thing to do in the first place. It would have cost them alot less. It should have been like; What can brown do for you?

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Its too bad that more and more companies don't look into "whats the right thing to do" rather than look into "what looks best on paper".

Surely there is a management position to stick dude in. Even if its low management.

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Sorry - UPS *IS* wrong. There are varying degrees of epilepsy, and if it's controlable with medications, there's no problem at all with him driving. Those of you in panic mode seem to be equating 'epilepsy' with the hollywood over-dramitization of some poor slob thrashing around on the floor and breaking furniture.

Yes, it happens - in extreme cases. Epilepsy more commonly evidences as a short period of complete absence, during which time the person's body tends to remain in the last position it took.

*Furthermore*, epilepsy usually has a trigger. It could be *anything*, but it's generally *only* that one thing. If it's something like eating (I know of at least one case of this), all the driver need to is not eat while on the job. Most epileptics know their trigger and can take steps to avoid it. So long as this driver is unlikely (in the extreme) to encounter his trigger during his working hours, he's no more unsafe than any of us, and probably safer than a large number of us.

I just hope his trigger does not go off while he is barreling down on me on the interstate.

If this guy does have a seizure (Hollywood type or any other) and causes a wreck, who is going to get sued?
UPS.

we had a female city driver who started having seizures

they made her a yard jockey, which i dont see how thats safe, she could have a seizure and run a truck right into the dock or something

Yeah
But better than my kids school bus

There are many people that have seizures and drive every day.

Seizures can happen as a result of a head injury and can happen anytime during a period after the injury.

You do not know who or what the other driver you are meeting may have.

Your right

Epilepsy Causes Few Fatal Car Accidents
Alcohol, Driver Error Are Much More Deadly, Says Survey
http://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/news/2...-car-accidents