A review board that advises federal regulators on medical standards for truck drivers recommends stricter standards for drivers with vision loss than originally proposed.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Medical Review Board (MRB), a five-member panel of physicians that provides expert advice to the agency, recommends that the current field-of-vision requirement for drivers with vision loss in one eye be changed from 70 degrees to 120 degrees in a proposed alternative vision...
An estimated 14,000 medical examiners have less than two months to submit the results of truck driver physical qualification exams conducted during a nine-month database outage three years ago.
In a notice scheduled to be posted on Monday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stated that “upload functionality” into the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (MEs) was fully restored on Aug. 13, 2018. “FMCSA is aware that while many MEs have submitted results of examinations...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fmcsa-wants-missing-driver-exam-results-by-sept-30
The economy is rebounding, but capacity is tight and an already-strained driver population is struggling to keep up with demand. In a market like this, carriers need to ensure all their seats stay filled. Ongoing industry struggles have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, making it more difficult than ever to retain current drivers and recruit new talent.
The driver shortage – or driver squeeze – has been a hot-button topic across the industry for years. The issue has only been...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/carriers-cant-afford-the-costs-of-bad-record-keeping
UPS (NYSE: UPS) and Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) said they are looking into whether employee health data was compromised after hackers posted medical records of truck drivers and rail workers to a leak site following an apparent ransomware attack and data breach at a Virginia-based occupational healthcare provider.
It was not immediately clear how many UPS and Norfolk Southern personnel were affected by the leak of over 3,000 files from occupational health provider Taylor Made Diagnostics on...
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The Daily Dash is a quick look at what is happening in the freight ecosystem. In today’s edition, a federal watchdog has said that as many as 780,000 truck driver medical examinations may not be in the federal database. Plus, freight rates continue to surge and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans another study on providing more sleeper berth flexibility.
Missing medical recordsA seven-month outage of a medical examiner registry maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
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Federal regulators have granted Knight-Swift Transportation [NYSE: KNX] a conditional exemption allowing the truckload giant to avoid what it has asserted are costly redundant medical record requirements for its drivers.
After assessing Knight-Swift’s application and three public comments, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) found that the company “would achieve a level of safety that is equivalent to, or greater than, the level that would be achieved absent such exemption,”...
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