FAT people are Discriminated against at prime

CSA2010 has nothing to do with your health. It is a way of rating carriers based on their performance in complying with the FMCSRs.

The deal with BMI is that it is one of the measurements that relates to the occurance of sleep apnea, and the possibility that the sedentary lifestyle of a truck driver may cause you to be susceptible to Type II Diabetes and heart disease. At this time, there is no restriction on either in the DOT medical requirements, but carriers may be more restrictive in their hiring practices - assuming there is a job-related justification.

 

If they really do this the government better be prepared to pay out a hella of alot of disability claims! Disability probably pays better then most of these OTR jobs anyway...

 

LOL i just saw that guy last week at a pilot in oregon, I was surprised he could even make it into his truck, I thought at first glance he was an rv'er.

 

Driver Fitness BASIC — Operation of CMVs by drivers who are unfit to operate a CMV due to lack of training, experience, or medical qualifications. Example violations: failing to have a valid and appropriate commercial driver's license and being medically unqualified to operate a CMV. (FMCSR Parts 383 and 391)

Has nothing to do with that?? Medically qualified???

 

I am 6' and 350 lbs. I know they are going to give me crap about it.

 

Yeah... that's paperwork. The medical requirments for a CMV driver are not addressed by CSA.

It's like this... the FMCSRs separately address the medical requirements you have to meet in order to obtain a medical, and then specify that you can't drive a CMV without one. The requirements are set by the medical review board of the FMCSA, and then are issued as notices of proposed rulemaking - going through the usual process to change them. Sleep apnea testing and BMI limits are not part of the requirements at this time.

CSA is a way of measuring the compliance with the FMCSRs by carriers - in order to identify non-compliant carriers so that the FMCSAs limited resources can be used more effectively - at least that's the propaganda that the FMCSA puts out. In the fitness BASIC, the FMCSA is looking at whether carriers hire unqualified drivers, whether those drivers can produce a medical card, etc. It says nothing about your qualifications for that medical card.

Ultimately the organization who determines who can or cannot drive for a carrier is the carriers insurance underwriter. If they are uncomfortable insuring you, DOT physical or not, YOU WILL NOT DRIVE. Increasingly, insurance underwriters are taking the propensity for a driver to have sleep apnea into consideration before they'll approve you to drive - they don't like having commercial drivers fall asleep at the wheel, slaughter a family car full of kids, then have to pay out a bazillion bucks to settle the resulting claims. Ergo... no sleep apnea. Statisically, folks with a high BMI are more prone to sleep apnea... thus, you're going to have problems if you carry some weight around.

Its not fair, but what is in life?

 

i actually heard from a very good source that the reason prime does this cause---all the heavy wieghts eat too #### much at the company bbq at they couldnt afford it anymore

 

Should of seen the piles of shrimp, steak, and crab legs at the Christmas party...

However they may rethink this past years party "favor" for future Christmas parties... The tall "beer glass" with Prime logo were awesome... especially when we all got the idea to ditch the plastic cups and have the bartenders pour our drinks in em... double, triples, and quads...

 

Ive seen drivers at truck stops so heavy, I think I can feel the ground shake every time they take a step. And those poor trucks. When they grab on the grab handle and have to yank on the things to pull themselves in the cab. I can see the whole truck tilt. and when they actually get settled in the whole truck is listing to one side.

 

sedentary lifestyle of a truck driver! where can I find one of these jobs? I drive a truck but they make me work also!