Driving Sick?

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...xt.aspx?chunkKey=09016334800238d0&keyword=392


No driver shall operate a commercial motor vehicle, and a motor carrier shall not require or permit a driver to operate a commercial motor vehicle, while the driver’s ability or alertness is so impaired, or so likely to become impaired, through fatigue, illness, or any other cause, as to make it unsafe for him/her to begin or continue to operate the commercial motor vehicle.

 

I love it, thanks Roadmedic. Now, Palazon-are you unemployed yet ?

 

That doesnt matter. You could still prove it went there. Even if he never opened it, deleted it, never read it you could still PROVE it went to his inbox. Or at least his I.P address anyway.

 

Hey Roadmedic, do I even have to explain to the company why I can not continue to drive? And what recourse do I have when they apply pressure to make me drive?
I had a situation arise where I had "hours to drive" but due to being under ALOT of stress for the previous 3 days and having been up all day waiting on our shop to release my truck (which they still havnt fixed, I'm in a loaner) when they finally got me rolling I was just too #### tired to drive all nite! I didnt let them push me, I went to bed. But I took alot of crap from dispatch for the next few days.

 

Dave, Like so many things in the rule book, it looks good on paper, but.............
if you actually try to exercise that rule-we both kinda know what really happens.

 

Keep in mind, when push comes to shove YOU and YOU alone are responsible for your actions. If you are sick stay home, no jury in the world will let a driver off the hook if an accident causes a fatality just because you had the flu. And, trust me when I say, there are plenty of companies out there that would have you "move the load" after your left arm was just fell off. Those companies are probably the rule, and not the exception!

You can always find a new job with one "I was too sick to work" on your DAC report. You will never get another driving job if you have a wreck cause you were sick. That shows extremely poor judgement.