Originally Posted by
rickair7777
They know that since there is a perennial shortage of truck drivers the trucking industry, not the individual drivers, would have to eat the cost so their lobbyists went to bat. Airlines aren't worried because they know the pilots will pay for it themselves.
That's not true. I read a couple of trucking forums on this last night.
New truckers are forced to go to doctors chosen by large trucking companies. Many of these doctors are forcing the applicants to get sleep studies, likely at clinics where they get kickbacks. It's another $2200 or so (between study and CPAP) for an applicant. Of course these OSA study/CPAP providers are nice enough to have automatic payments from new truckers' paychecks.
Even experienced truckers are being forced to pay for these contraptions out of their paychecks. So no, it's not the trucking companies paying for CPAPs, nor is it their insurance.