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Driver vision qualifications, diabetes to be discussed at Medical Review Board meeting The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Medical Review Board will evaluate the vision standard for truck drivers at its next meeting, which will be held May 19-20. The virtual meeting is open to the public. According to an agenda for the meeting published Tuesday in the Federal Register, the MRB will evaluate comments and the vision assessment form from a proposed rulemaking from January. The January proposal, if finalized, would allow drivers who cannot meet either the current distant visual acuity or field of vision standard, or both, in one eye to be physically qualified to operate a commercial vehicle. Currently, these drivers are prohibited from operating in interstate commerce without an exemption from FMCSA. ....
Updated Apr 30, 2021 David Macon, widely known as Uncle Dave Macon but also as The Dixie Dewdrop, will be among the historical figures presented by trucking DJ “Big Al” Weekley on his Friday show.JblattnerNYC via Wikimedia creative commonsIf you like your trucking music seasoned with a little trucking trivia, don’t miss “Big Al” Weekley’s show Friday morning. Country singer Freddie Hart will be among the personalities featured on Friday s show. The photo appeared with an interview of him in the October 1972 issue of Overdrive.The working trucker and Bluegrass Jamboree host will feature both as he hosts “Overdrive’s Music to Truck By: Today’s tunes from the men and women behind the wheel.” The program airs from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern each Friday. ....
s place in it. In this week’s special edition of the Overdrive Radio podcast, part of George Ruelens. He was hauling for Ned Bard & Son at the time in this conventional Peterbilt: George Ruelens is pictured here on that day more than thirty years ago with the Peterbilt he was driving at the time and his wife, Diana. She was along for the 2-hour-plus convoy (a different route than is taken today, as he spells out in the podcast). In the cab with them was a Make-a-Wish child. (Tour more of Ruelens’ history via the images below.) As he spells out in the podcast, Ruelens and the 41 other truckers who participated that day had no idea what they were doing would become a veritable institution in the region around Lancaster County the annual Mother’s Day convoy benefiting the Make-a-Wish foundation. ....
From the advent of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s CSA Safety Measurement System in 2010, its shortcomings were well-evident to carriers and baked into its structure. At that time, carriers were focused on scoring inequities, particularly when comparing the way a small carrier s scores moved wildly, because of very little data input to average, versus the slow climbs and falls with more data on the large-carrier side. There s since been refinement of a feeling among critics that the very public nature of the data underpinning what passes for CSA today is its fatal design flaw, creating far too many unintended consequences, in the words of Payne Trucking Safety Director Chris Haney. Those consequences have been, at best, unfair to carriers forced to contend with them on a daily basis. ....
Apr 22, 2021 Jason Lee Wilson and James County, pictured from the Caverns venue near Monteagle, Tennessee, will feature on the Friday, April 23, edition of Overdrive s Music to Truck By. Host “Big Al” Weekley will take listeners back six decades Friday morning as he interviews country singer Claude Gray, whose I ll Have Another Cup of Coffee (Then I ll Go) was a hit in 1961. Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search, will be highlights of “Overdrive’s Music to Truck By: Today’s tunes from the men and women behind the wheel.” The two-hour show streams at 10 a.m. Eastern every Friday from The Bluegrass Jamboree network. ....