CSA 2010: The data

to the tune of $5000.00 maybe we can get OBAMA to foot the bill

 

The only disqualifying BMI number I've seen tossed out is 39. According to National Institutes of Health, 39 is on the high side of Obese, it doesn't get into Extremely Obese. Maybe all of this is spurred by the concerns over sleep apnea. Isn't it true that people who are "heavier" are more likely to have sleep interruptions and therefore be more subject to fatigue? "Fatigued Driving" is big on the CSA 2010 hit list!

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/bmi_tbl.pdf

 

High BMI, sleep apnea, excessive fatigue, accidents, Correlation does not imply causation!
The notion that that high BMI or sleep apnea causes excessive fatigue or even accidents is unproven. It is possible? yes, but not proven!
Are there drivers with low BMI HAVING SLEEP APNEA? YES
Are there drivers without sleep apnea involved in accidents? Of course.
Mandating testing based on BMI alone is excessive and will not diagnose every driver with sleep apnea, that is of course ASSUMING that every driver with sleep apnea is REALLY as dangerous as they say!
Kinda like Global Warming is ONLY A THEORY!!! yet they are still shoving all these emmission controls up our butts!

 

All I know is this is really putting a crimp in me buying a truck!

 

Bet ya the truck mfg co's out there are thinking the same thing. With low sale volumes due to the economy, higher priced EPA regs & add CSA2010. Sure they are even going to be even more tense than last year.

 

Optimist.

 

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HOW WILL THIS NEW CSA 2010 AFFECT ME ???? I was sitting in stopped traffic last week due to a fatality ahead of me about 500 yards and a couple rearended my truck trailer at 70mph !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in their minivan, ......it took emergency crews over 2 hours to get the guy out of the car, (his wife was extracated fairly quickly and transported via ambulance- I later found out she was going to be OK) as of then the husband was still alive but in bad shape, steering wheel and dash were in his stomach and lap ,,they had to shut down both sides of the interstate and land a life flite helicopter on the interstate, they had to jack up my trailer to get it off the front of the car so they could pull his vehicle out form underneath the trailer (when he hit the trailer it lifted the whole back of the trailer up and it came back down on the top of the car) , then they had to cut apart the minivan and roof to extracate him, the impact was so severe that it bent my seat back , slammed the back of my head against the cabinet, knocked everything in the truck around , all the stuff on the dash got thrown off and whiplashed my back..the next day DOT did a inspection on my truck and everything passed. Even tho I had my flashers on and witness statement saying there was nothing I could have done to prevent this BUT how will this affect me now?? and By the way I am NEW to the industry and this was my first load in my first week of driving a truck!! believe or not!

 

The only number I've seen connected to FMCSA recommended testing is 30 .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31066019/

 

221 at 6 feet? I was over that at 6'4" and I'm still what you could call rail thin.