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TRUCKERS' APNEA * USA
* DC - OOIDA's Spencer: "Apnea suggestions ignore real safety risks"
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Washington,DC,USA -Land Line, by Charlie Morasch -10 Feb 2012: -- Recommendations made last week by two FMCSA advisory panels appear to be geared toward making profits but ignore safety risks they’re intending to address, OOIDA Executive Vice President, Todd Spencer, says... The FMCSA Medical Review Board and the FMCSA Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee met jointly last week in the Washington DC-area. The joint panel was slated to discuss recommendations for sleep apnea and electronic on-board recorders... Because both boards are advisory in nature, the joint recommendations may be proposed for a rule, ignored, or amended and later presented... Spencer, a member of MCSAC, told Land Line Now, the sleep lab industry and CPAP makers appear to have found an investment target in CDL-holders... The OOIDA Foundation researched cost of sleep labs and calculated that 49 percent of the 3.5 million commercial truck drivers have a BMI of 30 or greater. If that number of drivers is required to undergo sleep lab exams, such a rule would cost truckers $5.25 billion...
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