A pair of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration advisory committees will meet later this month to discuss setting up a new agency “driver wellness initiative.”
FMCSA’s Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee and Medical Review Board will meet jointly Sept. 21-22 in Arlington, Virginia, to also discuss “other ways to foster the health and wellness of commercial-vehicle drivers.”
“The MRB and MCSAC will discuss the structure, content, delivery and evaluation of this initiative,” a Sept. 4 Federal Register announcement said. “The meeting is open to the public for its entirety.”
FMCSA has characterized the effort as a “nonregulatory, public-private partnership of stakeholders to improve drivers' health.”
The initiative is part of a congressional requirement that the secretary of transportation, with the advice of the MRB and the chief medical examiner, “establish, review and revise medical standards for operators of commercial motor vehicles that will ensure that the physical condition of operators of commercial motor vehicles is adequate to enable them to operate the vehicles safely.”
