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Ok, we can, if we think hard enough, come up with an exception or three. But we're not in the military or some paramilitary service here, is the point.

The military had this problem. They went by BMI so muscular people were being put on the fat boy program. They had no waiver, either, at least when I was in, at least not officially.

No, requiring a civilian under nobody's authority to be in a particular shape or look a certain way is a bunch of crap.

Yeah...keep that crap in the military or police force where it belongs.

Which is why Illinois collects the toll of all drivers passing through on I-80 at the 294 junction. They've not on a toll road, just passing by at the junction to one. It's to rob every motorist that passes by.

Arbitrary cutoff, is right. It used to be that normal BP was 100 plus your age (top number, of course). Then they saying saying 140, and now they're talking 120. But a growing number of doctors are starting to point out that it's ludicrous to expect an older person with relatively inelastic...

Another example: the doctor who have me my last DOT physical said he was working an ER & a guy came in for something or other, and the guy weighed about 400-500 lbs. When you're that big, you get admitted. Well, they found out this guy had sleep apnea so they put him on a CPAP machine. His sleep...

It sounds to me that this opens them up to the same possible lawsuit, applying a standard not listed by FMCSA as a disqualifying factor.

What's your source on this, that it starts May 21?

Didn't we have a thread on this a few weeks ago (I know we did because I started it) in which Turtle explained that they started this but because it was done without proper science & rule-making procedure, Congress got involved and canned it? And didn't he mention how he thought them applying...

That's what gets me about ppl who decry the free market because of what they perceive as what the free market did to prices. "Greed," they say. No system in which you can't buy a product or service across state lines can be considered free market. Insurance has been a primary reason (alongside...

As Ronald Reagan said, socialism can only work in two places: Heaven, where they don't need it, and Hell, where they already have it. Socialized medicine has worked NOWHERE. The only time it even appears to work is when the books are cooked to make it look like it does. A truly free market...

Ok, here's the thing on Phelps. His position on homosexual perversion was correct: it's a ****able sin. His methods were ridiculous and counter-productive, though. But it was just recently that I figured out something about him. He's a lot like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, etc. in that if he had...

"I pay your salary" might get old, but when it's appropriate is when government officials trample liberties or otherwise break the law or exceed the limits of their authority. If it gets old, it's probably because it's overused, as in, "How dare you give me a ticket!" I could perhaps give this...

We still wouldn't be talking about it had the tyrant not said "I'm the master, ma'am. I'm the master." She may have opened the door for him, but he walked through on his own.

Is there any doubt anymore? Now we can know, when cops are called pigs, it's the pigs in Animal Farm. From http://www.examiner.com/article/conn-officer-says-woman-sounds-anti-american-for-questioning-gun-control-law

Bing translates to and from Klingon. They probably run it through their engine at no cost.

Wasp spray for self-defense is totally worthless. You may as well fight evil with air freshener.

Since, as you say, the FMCSA dictates what does and doesn't disqualify, presumably the driver could've said, "No, I think not. I'll just take my card, please"?

I just remembered when I googled this, I read a bunch of stories about drivers being forced to get the sleep study to get their medical certification renewed. Presumably, they don't all work for England or the other extra-compliant carriers. Any idea where that's coming from? Before the FMCSA...