Is sleep apnea and cpap history?

Another reason not work for megas, eh. Besides dac.

 

Any lawyers out there?

 

In a nutshell, OODIA is ranting that FMCSA is only "recommending" checking for apnea. If they recommend something, there are no studies done to say it's needed. If they were to make it a regulation, it would need proof it's needed, or at least proof it there is an actual issue that needs to be fixed.

The fact it's a recommendation and not a regulation means it's simply some bureaucrat pushing his agenda.

 

Congress isn't done with sleep apnea

Bills in Congress would require FMCSA to implement sleep apnea rule

ollowing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s announcement this summer that it had tabled a rule meant to implement screening criteria and treatment protocol regulations for obstructive sleep apnea, Congressional Democrats aim to press the agency to resume working on the rule.

 

These democrats need to find something better to do then trying to force every truck driver on CPAP machines. Maybe like " getting rid of Obamacare and lowering taxes " so the economy can really take off and everybody is working. Wait, that maybe to hard for them. It is easier to put people out of work and destroy this great country. Wait until there is no more truck drivers to drive, then what? I guess self driving trucks, I fill really safe with them. WTF!!!!

 

This is just another round of good old-fashioned lobbying, ###-kissing, and wallet padding among business interests and bureaucrats on BOTH side of the aisle (with a healthy dose of distorted fear-mongering to make the masses feel like their being protected.) Same old story told in pretty much every industry at one time or another.

I am sure you could all suggest much more pressing safety concerns in the trucking industry, but unless you find a business with a product to sell as a "solution" to the problem, the energy will keep spinning around lucrative screening tests and cpap machines for this imagined problem.