LEGAL LANE
• • • By Jim Klepper • • •
LEGAL LANE
Money vs Safety
AN OVERWEIGHT TRUCK driver went to visit his doctor about losing weight. After the usual doctor stuff, the doctor asks the driver about his eating habits. Well Doc, replied the trucker, I eat 7 chocolate covered donuts and three apples every day and I just keep gaining weight. The doctor replies; You must reduce your apple intake to only two apples per day, that way we can decrease your calorie intake and you can lose weight.
What kind of doctor would give their patient trying to lose weight that advice? Only a government doctor it appears since that is essentially what law enforcement has decided to do to trucking. What? How is that anywhere like the doctor ignoring the chocolate covered donuts and focusing on the apples above you may ask?
Phil Byrd, President of Bulldog Hiway Express based in South Carolina, spoke to the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance( CVSA), which is composed of law enforcement agencies nationwide, on April 23, 2013 and asked them to focus more on
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