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Don Lanier - Comments
Document ID: FMCSA-2012-0048-0002

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Public Submission

This is comment on Notice: Agency Information Collection Activities;
Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Annual and Quarterly Report of
Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers
Docket ID:
FMCSA-2012-0048
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Status:

Posted

Received Date:

April 24 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Date Posted:

April 27 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Comment Start Date:

April 20 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

Comment Due Date:

June 19 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Tracking Number:

80ff9b2c

Page Count:

1

First Name:

Don

Last Name:

Lanier

Mailing Address:

4810 Longview

City:

Godfreyq

Country:

United States

State or Province:

IL

Postal Code:

62035

Thanks for the Ability to submit a comment, I feel these recommendations are to vague, to broad
and will serve to stigmatize and discriminate against Obese or Overweight drivers. I feel that a driver
should stand on his/her performance in a truck, not as a lab rat. I have numerous safety citations, I
have several for driving a car for more then 30 years with NO ACCIDENTS, I have the same for my
truck/s, I have driven several types of trucks and have a exemplary driving record. But now I find
myself pigeonholed by a new law/mandate that serve's to make me a target. Like most Professional
drivers I feel its an affront to my driving record, and my professionalism that Ive carried myself in a
manner that should find myself feeling good about what I do. Today I live in fear because of a
proposed test, a intrusion into my private life because of Statistics presented by a Lobby, who stand
to profit from these tests. I think this type of law is not being brought forth for safety sake, but pushed
and shoved thru by Lobbyists, the Sleep Industry, and this board. I stand against it, I feel as if my
career is in jeapardy even after a PERFECT DRIVING record which is not taken into account. I
believe drivers with Perfect records should be exempt from this intrusion, and our safe driving record
should finally stand for something. Now becausde I am a large man i will be stygmatized, and put
thru tests and costs that I dont need, nor do I wish to pay for them, Out of my own pocket because I
have no Health insurance. I think you should allow those of us who have a driving record that
represents myself as the Professional Driver I value myself to be, statistics are not perfect, everyone
doesnt have or isnt afflicted with these so called sleep disorders. I ask that driving records and safe
drivers be given and exclusion from these tests.