FMCSA considers CDLs for hearing impaired

I just wonder if they will let blind folks get CDLs next?

You can convert this to Braille here:
http://www.translatum.gr/converter/braille.htm

 

Deaf drivers? Come on in! (Seriously).

No reason they can't do this job competently.

Here's a thought though- what will it cost shippers and receivers to make the mods to accommodate them? For example, a driver parks at a closed gate with a keypad and a speaker. Instructions explain that you need to call a certain extension and speak with shipping/rcvg. Is the business going to have to install a two way camera? Will they have to replace the intercom with a paid security officer in case a deaf commercial driver visits someday?

Does a deaf driver get a handicapped sticker for his vehicle? Do truck inspectors have to modify the inspection procedure to include a second inspector to relay directions to the driver in the inspection? What about deaf Mexican National drivers who can't read, write, speak or hear English?

What I see here is the Obama Administration "creating jobs" once again with regulation. Screw the drivers whose career field is already saturated with too many workers, "Forget 'em!". Design a situation that will take manpower, equipment, financing, legal guidance, compliance technicians and a legal team to support it.

I personally believe that someone in the current bunch of "Socialist Engineers" in power thinks he's creating a masterpiece. HMMM... if it leads to a new Big Government Administration, someone will claim "Victory" for jobs creation. "Let's see- now that we have disadvantaged victims working alongside unimpaired employees, we will need to even things out. So we give grants to businesses for installing comm equipment for deaf drivers- and grants and loans for trucking companies that hire deaf drivers. OOH- I know! Let's give out grants to colleges to study the effect of deaf drivers on the industry. And loans and grants to the truck manufacturers to design equipment to better accommodate hearing impaired drivers."

Well- you get the idea, another Big Brother jobs creation plan, and fees, permits, new taxes and more National Debt to support it (minus Big Government overhead of course).

Welcome to the New Amerika! It's being built regulation-by-complicated-regulation. At our expense.

 

Thank you . You see theirs always a loop hole in the system just have to play their game by their rules . been doing it for 4 yrs now all i do is show them my DOT exam card and then if i fail then explain this, had pee tell me i couldn't pass heard her say that from across the desk to the Dr. Told her a few things. He told he heard what you so what was that. nxt thing he did was sign off on my card passed.

 

that wasn't a compliment.

I'd respond to your comment but I don't know what you're attempting to communicate.

 

Meaning were no different then people who needs glasses to drive trucks or some other piece of equipment like for people that have a sleeping disorder you figure it out but i guess that's the way college educated people would think just cause you have a slight defect by birth or from some other way you can't do that job or this job

 

Sorry but I must disagree with you here...

There are many time during my workday that my hearing is the only warning that I have of something happening around my truck!
A motorcycle slips into a blind spot and I hear him for a few crucial seconds before I see him.

An ambulance or fire truck approaching a blind Intersection and I hear him way before I see him and have time to adjust my speed until I see the problem.

The simple fact is that certain physical abnormalities preclude you from certain jobs...That's just the way it goes!
Maybe we ought to let the blind drive or perhaps someone with no arms, After all it's just a slight defect that can be overcome....BS!

This is not a job for the deaf!

I'm sure the idiots that occupy Washington D.C. will give you your chance but it's a ###### stupid idea!

 

Huh?

 

Allowing Blind pilots

 

If the defect causes you not to be able to perform the job then yes I would agree that you shouldn't be able to do the job. Why lower the standards to accommodate the masses. Standards are in place to narrow the field so a select few move on to be drivers. If changes are going to be made, the current standards should be more strict, not more lax.

 

If you can do it, roll. I'm all for it.

But the reason you see alligators in the road and chunks of rubber is not because a person couldn't hear an air leak. It's because they went ahead anyway, trying to make it to the TA for a tire change most likely.

By the way, I have heard myself get two holes in tires since I started, not that long ago. Once in St. Louis, once in Jacksonville, both on the Interstates. It's a rare thing, but it happens.