SPEED LIMITERS PROPOSAL

Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Grouch, Oct 22, 2022.

  1. Grouch

    Grouch Road Train Member

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    Yes sir, we need to support the doctors, they are feeling left out in "screwing the truckers".
     
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    GreenPete359 Road Train Member

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    mpow66m Heavy Load Member

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    Are you serious,we need to take a sleep apnea test every 2 yrs?
     
  5. Long FLD

    Long FLD Road Train Member

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    No. The coalition would like the FMCSA to go back to requiring sleep tests for people with a higher BMI.
     
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  6. Grouch

    Grouch Road Train Member

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    NO! I was being sarcastic. You know what a "sleep apnea test" would cost a driver every two years and don't think for a moment that a trucking company is going to pick up the bill.

    I just looked it up. A sleep apnea test runs from $1000 to $7000.
     
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  7. ‘Olhand

    ‘Olhand Cantankerous Crusty

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    IMHO
    The real problem with sleep apnea test as I see it
    First stop when they were requiring them for many people most of the walk-in clinics that were requiring them were extremely unscrupulous
    While I never had a problem....or had it required
    I knew many of my friends that were caught in that round robin....and then were demanded to wear CPAP machines
    of course the CPAP machine had to be either purchased or rented through some other corporation....So that you had no choice but to use theirs so you have a way to document what you did
    Also again in my opinion for what it’s worth
    any of you or us that I’ve been on the road for any length of time....have extremely varied sleep patterns and in unfamiliar places....tend to not sleep terribly well due to the situation
    So they bring you to a facility of some sort....hook you up to all kinds of machinery and tell you to go to sleep
    I can tell you if it was me....I’m not gonna get a wink of sleep that night
    I’m just laying there wondering what the heck is going on and whom is that fair to??
     
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    MACK E-6 Moderator Staff Member

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    That’s disgusting.
     
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    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    bUt ThInK oF tHe ChIlDrEn!
     
  10. SmallPackage

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    Good Thing about the sleep apnea test racket is it will be a one time deal. Because the first time you will be told you fail and will given a cpap to use the rest of your life with a cdl.
     
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