But despite being employed in an essential line of work, some deaf and hard-of-hearing drivers fear their jobs are at risk as they await a crucial ruling from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (WIBW) - A trucker who happens to be deaf and applied for a position with a Nebraska company has been awarded more than $36 million after he was denied employment. The Equal Employment ...

(Editor's note: All interviews with deaf drivers or those with hearing loss were conducted by email.) Truck driver William Newman was dead set against deaf drivers being on the road. Based on his 30 ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will consider additional applications for exemptions from the federal hearing standard prohibiting deaf truck drivers from interstate operations. The ...

When Suzie Helgerson drives, she sees emergency vehicles before most hearing people hear the sirens. Helgerson, 54, has been deaf since she became sick with German measles at the age of 6. She wears a ...

Since he was very young, Richard Boehrer has been fascinated with trucks. As a small child, he played with toy trucks and dreamed of the day when he would be behind the wheel of an actual big rig.

Nebraska-based Werner Enterprises must pay $335,682 in a disability discrimination case involving a deaf truck driver. A jury verdict had earlier awarded $36 million in punitive damages and $75,000 in ...

Federal trucking regulators are reviewing a petition filed by the National Association of the Deaf seeking to relax requirements for deaf truck and bus drivers. The petition specifically wants to end ...

The National Association of the Deaf is petitioning the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to remove the requirement for interstate truckers to be able to hear. The group also asks that FMCSA ...

Bryan MacFarlane, 40, was one of four members of the state's Deaf community who went to play cornhole last Wednesday night at Schemengees in Lewiston and were killed in the shootings. He had worked ...