Re: Medically Unfit Truckers Still on the Road

Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
news:ad49845fbn0l05ij0kdj5no08i545puch9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I wonder how many of these guys are graduates of the GPSTroll Trucking
> School? [Follow the link for the full article.]
> 
> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijNvFbFNKbFcySzH3CGPFyNSbu5AD92268580
> 
> Medically unfit truck drivers still on roads
> 
> By HOPE YEN and FRANK BASS – 3 hours ago
> 
> WA****NGTON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus
> drivers in the United States carry commercial driver's licenses
> despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some
> of those drivers have suffered seizures, heart attacks or unconscious
> spells, according to a new U.S. safety study obtained by The
> Associated Press.
> 
> The problems threatening highway travelers persist despite years of
> government warnings and hundreds of deaths and injuries blamed on
> commercial truck and bus drivers who blacked out, collapsed or
> suffered major health problems behind the wheels of vehicles that can
> weigh 40 tons or more.
> 

This is awful but it's really no worse than the way we let convicted drunk

drivers and extreme speeders continue to drive.  Americans have simply
been 
brainwashed into thinking highway murder is ok.