Handicapped parking

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by WhyDriveTruck, Jul 19, 2014.

  1. Joetro

    Joetro Road Train Member

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    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.
     
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  3. allniter

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    I think if a mental handicap counted there'd be a lot more handicap tags!:biggrin_2559:
     
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  4. GA_Rookie

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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. He’d 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 wasn’t 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 wife’s 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 doctor’s 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 wasn’t 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 he’s 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 I’ll be making now compared to my Social Security checks, well, I’m OK sitting in a truck,” he said.
     
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  5. 6wheeler

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    I'd take my with me on long hauls and he is 80 with a handicap sticker.

     
  6. BigBluePeter

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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.
     
  7. Hamburger71

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    Wow, things sure have changed!
     
  8. SHO-TYME

    SHO-TYME Road Train Member

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    So tell me then how about these drivers who are so fat they can hardly walk, carry the bag full of donuts and 4 Mountain Dews in their hands but can't hardly put one foot in front of another., they couldn't close the rear door without taking a break..... How are they legal?


    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.
     
  9. 12 ga

    12 ga THE VIEW FROM MY OFFICE

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    You don't know what you are talking about. I have a handicap permit because I have bone spurs and arthritis i my spine which caused sciatica some times and I can not walk very far. When that is the case I park in a handicap spot if available. If I don't need it I don't use it. My condition has no bearing on passing a DOT physical or not.
     
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  10. 12 ga

    12 ga THE VIEW FROM MY OFFICE

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    Can you explain to me what a purple heart has to do with getting a handicap parking permit, just would like to know the connection.
     
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  11. Quickfarms

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    I worked on the widening of route 37 in the early 1990's
     
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