medical crackdown on commerical drivers

[Derrick]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNPS11SJRL.DTL

[RebelDarlin]

Already posted here:

http://www.classadrivers.com/phpBB2/...ic.php?t=34700

[zipy46]

An unhealthy trucker ?

C'mon :shock:

If this trucking job takes a crap I am going to

go be a Pizza delivery guy... they dont have to have a checkup

[scania]

Maybe they're starting to realize now that it DOES take more than a warm body to drive a truck,and that it takes a healthy and skillfull person to sail 40 tons of metal down the highway.

[wsclinger]

Society is just now beginning to understand the importance of the industry and those that work in it. The majority of people in our country still probably think that everything that they can get in any store is either raised, grown, or made IN THE BACK OF THE STORE!!!!! Yes, there are that many dumb people out there today....

Our business is the true backbone of America and more and more people are going to start seeing that in the coming months and years....

My Name Is wsclinger and I Approve This Message......

[Walking Eagle]

wsclinger ... you mean milk doesn't come from boxes in the back of the store ???? Oh no, I am shocked :shock: :shock: Where oh where could it come from :?:

[wsclinger]

Hate to disappoint you Walking, but to my knowlege they grow their own milk in the basement, under a florescent light...they use a black light to grow chocolate milk....

[matcat]

Hate to disappoint you Walking, but to my knowlege they grow their own milk in the basement, under a florescent light...they use a black light to grow chocolate milk....

You are forgetting the most important milk, STRAWBERRY MILK!!!

[Walking Eagle]

Ahhhhh, growing milk, that is a new concept ! Every so often I open the fridge and the milk is growing it's own stuff, green. Is that Irish milk ?

[matcat]

Ahhhhh, growing milk, that is a new concept ! Every so often I open the fridge and the milk is growing it's own stuff, green. Is that Irish milk ?

Peppermint

[Walking Eagle]

I thought peppermint was supposed to help indegestion and heart burn but when I drink this it kinda increases :sad:

[Walking Eagle]

Sorry guys, kinda highjacked an important thread here.
It is important to get out on a regular basis and at least walk around the trailer a couple of times. H'll never know what you will find ! Air leak, light out, wheel missing ! You may laugh but I saw this in a rest area in Ms. just yesterday ! Driver went in to pe came out and was just looking at his R/R trailer. As I went by I asked "got a flat ?" he said "No, that wheel and tire are gone" Hmmmm wonder how he never felt it.

[dewercs2]

Sorry guys, kinda highjacked an important thread here.
It is important to get out on a regular basis and at least walk around the trailer a couple of times. H'll never know what you will find ! Air leak, light out, wheel missing ! You may laugh but I saw this in a rest area in Ms. just yesterday ! Driver went in to pe came out and was just looking at his R/R trailer. As I went by I asked "got a flat ?" he said "No, that wheel and tire are gone" Hmmmm wonder how he never felt it.

I was in Hammond, LA yesterday at the Petro and a driver drove in. He was missing tires and a brake hub from the trailer. He told me that he never even knew they were gone till he did the same thing. Got out to take a leak and he had to take a double take.

I showed him photos of my wreck from a guy who lost his brake hub.

I spoke to the Petro guy later and he told me that this guy didn't have a mechanical problem he just didn't check/look at his lugnuts on his pretrip.