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January 5, 2012

Safety rule puts some states' road funds in jeopardy

  • The new standard requires commercial truck drivers to provide state drivers' license offices proof from a medical professional that they are healthy enough to drive.
    • By DAVID A. LIEB
    Associated Press

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Stuck in a financial pothole, Missouri's highway department has been selling equipment and eliminating employees to scrounge up enough money to repair its roads. Unless it also changes state law, it could lose tens of millions of federal highway dollars as a penalty for not adopting new safety requirements for commercial truck drivers.

    Though Missouri's financial predicament may be extreme, it is far from unique. Approximately one-third of states have indicated they may not meet a Jan. 30 deadline for their drivers' license offices to require interstate truck drivers to provide proof from a medical professional that they are healthy enough to drive, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.


     
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