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What Commercial Drivers Conceal Could Have Dangerous Consequences
CBS NEWS April 11, 2016, 7:16 AM Commercial drivers are required to pass a health screening in order to drive. Regulators overhauled the system in 2014 and have disqualified roughly 70,000 truckers since then, out of some 8.5 million. But even the government admits at its core, the process requires a trucker to be honest about something that could cost him his job. A “CBS This Morning” investigation reveals drivers can hide medical conditions that should keep them off the road, reports CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave. Ruthie Allen was one of 35 passengers injured when a …