The agency awarded more than $463 million to states to reduce CMV-involved crashes, fatalities and injuries through commercial vehicle-focused safety programs. Also: Top 250 fleet recognizes safe drivers; CVSA updates emergency declarations site.
Truck drivers fueing in N.Y. get a reprieve at the pump with the suspension of the state s 15.5-cent diesel tax through the end of the year. Also: CVSA updates emergencies website; new Eaton 48-volt aftertreatment heaters; Bendix postpones ride-and-drive.
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NIH Director Francis Collins is doing full-court press these days in preparation of the vaccine distribution in the United States. The Washington Post, NPR, and other legacy media outlets are slathering over this political appointee as the perfect oracle to convince people of faith that the vaccine is safe and should be taken.
“One of the few high-profile Obama appointees to continue serving in President Trump’s administration, Collins carries a certain kind of authority to address people of faith, many of whom are skeptical of scientific evidence for such things as evolution.”
Typical WaPo:
You anti-science rubes need help understanding this! Thoroughly discounting (or mocking) the number of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who are people of faith, but still have legitimate concerns about not only how this pandemic has been handled medically and socially, but about this coming vaccine.