We had a guy at my company with only one leg. He drove just fine, but it was hell for him to park a long way off.
Handicapped parking
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I think if a mental handicap counted there'd be a lot more handicap tags!
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http://www.thetruckersreport.com/double-amputee-finds-success-in-trucking/
Double Amputee Finds Success In Trucking
Life had knocked down 44-year-old Joe Schafer pretty hard. Hed been a tow truck driver for most of his life, and when his leg had to be amputated due to complications with his diabetes, he was able to keep driving using his prosthetic. When he lost his second leg, he wasnt able to continue. But now, despite all the odds against him, Schafer is currently employed as a Class A driver.
After losing his second leg, he was able to find sporadic work as a dispatcher at an auto shop, but was never able to hold down a full time job. For years, he and his family lived off of his wifes income as a pharmacy technician and his social security checks, but they were stretched too thin.
Deciding that enough was enough and that he had to get back to work somehow, Schafer decided to apply for trucking jobs. He went to a CDL school and earned his class A license. He got a doctors waiver for both his diabetes and his prosthetics and passed a skill performance evaluation.
According to the head of the training program at the school, four other amputees had previously completed the course, but it still wasnt easy. When he completed school, he applied around to different trucking companies and was able to find a spot at Western Express.
Schafer says that hes concerned about leaving his wife, stepdaughter and son at home while he does his 2-week OTR orientation, but despite only earning $375 a week for those first two weeks, thinking about those pay checks makes it worth it.
The thought of how much money Ill be making now compared to my Social Security checks, well, Im OK sitting in a truck, he said.
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I'd take my with me on long hauls and he is 80 with a handicap sticker.
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I saw a driver at our terminal in Laredo with 1 leg and 2 crutches..... maybe like that? Also met on in Montgomery at the TA that was blind in one eye and "couldn't see out of the other" Watched him climb into his truck to the horror of the waitress. LOL Not to mention that being a gigantic ###### these days is a disability.
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Wow, things sure have changed!
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My dad has 2 replacement knees, 1 hip, 1 shoulder, will turn 70 Tuesday and can still work circles around half the drivers I see, he has a handicap tag.Joetro and semi retired semi driver Thank this. -
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I worked on the widening of route 37 in the early 1990's
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