Slacking
The latest installment in our VLCeed is number 20 called “Slacking”, and comes to you in the form of a video. Enjoy!
Medical Card Updates
Commercial drivers license holders might finally be able to stop giving their medical cards to the state. The FMCSA is proposing June 23, 2025, for the new deadline. That date will also affect when motor carriers will be able to stop verifying that their CDL drivers are seeing a certified medical examiner.
No changes for now, but once the delay is finalized, motor carriers and drivers will need to continue following current practices for the foreseeable future. This means:
- Motor carriers must continue to get a copy of each CMV driver’s medical card.
- Motor carriers must verify that their DOT medical examiners are actively listed on the National Registry for all CMV drivers.
- CDL/CLP drivers must submit their medical card to the state within about five days of each exam and then carry a copy for at least 15 days following the exam.
- Motor carriers must obtain an updated driving record (MVR) for each CDL/CLP driver within 15 days of each medical exam.
Changes that were scheduled to arrive to the medical certification and licensing processes on June 22, 2021, are being delayed yet again. If the delay is finalized, recordkeeping practices will not need to change until June 2025.
VLC is here to help with all fleet and driver compliance and licensing matters.
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Agreements
There are many things that shape people and determine how they deal with life’s challenges. Having been a teacher for 25 years, I witnessed how young people developed as they faced the trials of their early lives.
We experienced this same phenomenon. We learned in our young lives the ideas and principles that shape who we are today. Don Miguel Ruiz, the author of the best selling book “The Four Agreements”, addresses this. He calls these ideas and principles agreements.
He points out that we accept these agreements, oftentimes without question, and let them determine how we conduct ourselves. The problem lies in the fact that these past agreements may not help us move forward with our lives today. He encourages people to consider and live by just 4 agreements:
- Be impeccable with your word.
- Don’t take anything personally.
- Don’t make assumptions.
- Always do your best.
As simple as it sounds to live by these agreements, it can be quite challenging. Your past programming will fight back with everything it has to make you act in accordance to the other 100+ agreements that you have made unknowingly over your past years. Ideas like “I’m not enough” or “an eye for an eye” or “he looked at me in a hateful way” are not going to change easily.
Adopting these agreements may not be easy, but they can pay great dividends. Over the next few weeks, we will consider them one by one in the hope they will resonate with you and help you in your daily lives. For now, consider these questions.
- What challenging situations are you facing right now that involve your relationship with others?
- Are these situations ones that you have faced in the past as well?
- In dealing with these personal challenges, do you find blame, either with yourself or others?
Have a great week!
Chuck Ross
John Maxwell Certified Coach, Trainer, Speaker, and DISC consultant
Author: Change? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
530-277-6161
“They themselves are makers of themselves.” James Allen
Danger Zone
Last Friday, two of our VLC teammates, Diane and Doug, took their first flying lesson. As they donned their airplane headsets, I couldn’t help but flash back to Top Gun. The beginning of Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins began playing in my head.
Okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that dramatic. After all, it did take the instructor about 20 minutes to do his inspections before even getting them into the plane. Then it was another 20 minutes before they taxied to the runway. After a while, the song I was hearing was more like Learning to Fly by Tom Petty.
Still, doing something new takes courage. Skydiving, which Diane has done, and learning to fly may be on the more daring spectrum of new endeavors. But doing anything new means that you might actually experience a certain amount of fear.
Phrases like, “It’s too much”, “It’s too hard”, “I’m overwhelmed”, and “I can’t do it” are just signs of change and challenge. Do we shrink and accept that we can’t handle it, or do we pull up our bootstraps and move forward in the face of fear? Do we accept that we are good where we are, or do we push to create a better version of ourselves?
I have heard it said that variety is the spice of life. If that is the case, then being stagnant is perhaps the same bowl of plain oatmeal you have been eating every morning for the last 5 years.
Embrace the danger zone by taking on that next challenge. Take that flying lesson. Go somewhere you haven’t gone before. Dare to breathe deep and center yourself when facing something new.
You’ll never say hello to you
Until you get it on the red line overload
You’ll never know what you can do
Until you get it up as high as you can go.
-Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
- What are some things you are facing that you are hesitant about?
- What is your first inclination when facing new challenges?
- Are your greatest obstacles created by others or by yourself?
Have a great week!
Chuck Ross
John Maxwell Certified Coach, Trainer, Speaker, and DISC consultant
Author: Change? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!?
530-277-6161
“They themselves are makers of themselves.” James Allen
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