I don't understand? They just started the medical card to get/renew your license on the books. How do you get 4 suspensions? Why didn't you renew?
I'm at home now because of the medical card thing. Nobody suspended my license. Last August I had to renew and just downgraded for now. No suspensions.
By the way, medical card requirements are for any commercial vehicle over 10,000 lbs.
CDL Expires After 1 Year if No Physical is On Record. Is This True?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by jester4736w, Mar 25, 2008.
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Is this medical card rule enforce by DOT or is it enforce by which state you hold a CDL in?
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After kind of coming down off the ceiling, I actually found a helpful person working at the driver's license bureau in Washington County, Utah. She took the time and trouble to contact a supervisor in the Arizona driver's license bureau and found out that it was because they had no record of my having a current DOT Physical.
(WHY SHOULD THEY, I NO LONGER HAD AN ARIZONA CDL)
Anyway, with her help, we got it straightened out. Then Arizona tried to claim that Utah never forwarded the surrendered license to them. Baloney.
I am actually going to have to surrender my CDL this month, as I can no longer pass a DOT physical. Of course since I'm retired it doesn't matter, but I'd like to have been able to hang onto it. -
OK, so I go in to the driver's license office to find out about this crap. They tell me I will need a certified copy of my birth certificate. Well hell, I HAVE a copy of my birth certificate. It was sufficient to get me into 4 different law enforcement agencies as a sworn officer over the years. But it isn't good enough now to renew my driver's license.
So, now I have to go back to a rural Colorado county to get this certified copy of my birth certificate. And what do I need to do that? $17.75 and a photo copy of my current driver's license.
WHAT @%#^(*& $%^ #@)( IDIOT CAME UP WITH THIS HORSE CRAP?Pmracing Thanks this. -
http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/registration-licensing/cdl/cdl.htm
Beginning January 30, 2012, for each operator of a commercial motor vehicle required to have a commercial driver's license, the current licensing States must:
- Require drivers to certify the type of operation the driver expects to conduct and post the driver's self-certification to the driver history record;
- Retain the original or a copy of the medical certificate of any driver required to provide documentation of physical qualification for three years beyond the date the certificate was issued; and
- Post the information from the medical examiner's certificate within 10 business days to the CDLIS driver record.
- Within 10 calendar days of receiving information from FMCSA regarding issuance or renewal of a medical variance for a driver, the State must
- update the CDLIS driver record to include the medical variance information provided by FMCSA.
- Within 10 calendar days of the driver's medical certification status expiring or a medical variance expiring or being recinded, the State must:
- Update the medical certification status of that driver as "not-certified."
- Notify the CDL holder of his or her CDL "not-certified" medical certification status and that the CDL privilage will be removed from the driver license unless the driver submits a current medical certificate and/or medical variance, or changes his or her self-certification to driving only in excepted or intrastate commerce (if permitted by the State).
- Initiate established State procedures for downgrading the license. The CDL downgrade must be completed and recorded within 60 days of the driver's medical certification status becoming "not-certified" to operate a CMV.
Big Don and Pumpkin Oval Head Thank this. -
OK, I asked the DMV in Az. the last time I re-newed my CDL, what if I don't re-new my Medical card, and she said, your CDL will be downgraded to a class "c" and will be upgraded back to a Class "a" when you re-new your medical card, anytime up to one year. If I go past one year, I will have to start all over and take ALL written and road tests again. Moral of the story, just keep your physical current. BTW, Ca. is the exact same rule.
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I think each state have there own set rules on the medical card issue.Does anyone know about PA CDL medical rule???
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I haven't driven in about 7 yrs and was able to renew it.
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They used to. However, the link I posted shows the way they are to be going as of January 30, 2012.
Many people in Illinois could get a cdl and if they quit driving, they could still renew it and no medical card was needed unless they were in cdl required vehicle. One guy I know, has a cdl since 90's. He will now not be able to renew it without the medical card. -
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