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Overdrive
| December 2014
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The National Association of Small
Trucking Companies has started offer-
ing member and nonmember carriers
and drivers a sleep apnea screening
and testing program.
It puts the process in the driver's
hands, "where it belongs," said NASTC
President David Owen last month
at the group's annual conference in
Nashville, Tenn.
The problem NASTC's
program attempts to solve is
the growing unwillingness of
medical examiners to issue
short-term conditional medi-
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