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CALENDAR News iN brief, er drug and alcohol clearinghouse may
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soon be required.
OF EVENTS head by a drone that was being used to “My advice to fleets is to be proac-
photograph the event. Last year, a drone tive on this front now,” he stresses. “I
crashed into a crowd in Virginia, injur- recommend checking your database
JULY ing spectators, and another crashed into on every driver to ascertain whether
a crowd at the Coachella music festival. they’ve had a prior drug or alcohol vio-
JULy 10-12
2014 ATA TRuckIng And there have been several reports of lation and follow up to make certain
chAMpIonshIp drones almost colliding with commer- they are in compliance now.”
John Q. hammons Convention Center cial and private planes. Finally, Davis said fleets can expect
Rogers, Ark.
Last year, Sen. Edward J. Markey a sleep apnea test to round out the med-
(D-Mass.) warned the Federal Aviation ical certification process for drivers.
Administration that it needed to figure “The bottom line is that fleets are
out regulations for drone use before the simply going to have to be more hands-
skies were filled with thousands of little on in helping their drivers get and keep
flying copters, affecting people’s privacy their medical cards,” Davis added. “It’s
and safety. going to take more time, more resources
and more people to do so.”
more regs on THe Horizon
At the CCJ Summer Symposium Looking for empLoyees?
in LaJolla, Cali., Jeff Davis, principle cHeck yoUr BasemenT
AUGUST officer for Fleet Safety Services, warned One in five people in their 20s and
AUGUST 12-16 of an onslaught of add-on CSA regula- early 30s is currently living with his
nATIonAl TRuck DRIVIng tions and requirements about to hit the or her parents. And 60 percent of all
chAMpIonshIp
david Lawrence Convention Center trucking industry. young adults receive financial support
Pittsburgh, Pa. “We’ve come through Phase 1 of from them. That’s a significant increase
AUGUST 20 the CSA,” Davis explained, from a generation ago, when
ATA VAlue of youR “which was the actual only one in 10 young adults
DRIVeRs seMInAR launch of the program moved back home and few
Statehouse Convention Center
Little Rock, Ark. and understanding how it received financial support.
would work. For better or The common explana-
SEPTEMBER
worse, we now have that tion for the shift is that
SEPTEMBER 14-20 information. Now we’re people born in the late 1980s
nATIonAl TRuck DRIVeR entering Phase 2, which and early 1990s came of age
AppRecIATIon Week
is the actual intervention amid several unfortunate
SEPTEMBER 16
ATA & TRuckloAD cARRIeRs phase which CSA was all and overlapping economic
AssocIATIon TRuck DRIVeR about in the first place.” trends. Those who gradu-
AppRecIATIon DAy FMCSA now requires ated college as the housing
TravelCenters of America/Petro fleets to use doctors market and financial system
North Little Rock, Ark.
with a Medical Providers were imploding faced the
SEPTEMBER 14-18 Certification to gauge the health of highest debt burden of any graduating
cVsA AnnuAl confeRence
& exhIbITIon their drivers. class in history. Nearly 45 percent of
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center “You have to place a note in the 25-year-olds, for instance, have out-
Buffalo, N.y. driver’s file that the doctor who passed standing loans, with an average debt
SEPTEMBER 20-24 him or her as fit for duty is government above $20,000. And more than half of
TMc fAll MeeTIng & certified,” he explained. “You have to go recent college graduates are unemployed
nATIonAl TechnIcIAn
skIlls coMpeTITIon to the FMCSA website and verify they or underemployed, meaning they make
Walt disney Swan & dolphin are certified. This regulation crept up substandard wages in jobs that don’t
Orlando, Fla. on us and I have no idea it was even require a college degree.
SEPTEMBER 22 being considered until I ran up on it Despite the grim forecasts, people
ATA pAc golf TouRnAMenT last week.” now in their 20s are remarkably opti-
RidgePoint Country Club
Jonesboro, Ark. Additionally, Davis believes that mistic. A recent nationwide poll of
hair testing for the newly founded driv- the group found that 77 percent still

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