CDL medical card questions?

If you read your letter it tells you that you have to submit a copy of your medical certificate within 6 weeks after you get the letter. The CDL DMV told me that the CDL will be no good for any vehicle but again we are gambling on what the true law says. Does it mean that we can no longer drive a CMV until we submit a medical card or does it completely go to no good. I wish that you will call the DMV and let us know. I'm curious to find out if they talk without the law.

 

If you do not have, or fail to submit a valid Medical Card to the state when it is required you will be CDL disqualified until you submit one. This does not affect the validity of your license, you can still drive non-CDL vehicles. If at the time of renewal of your CDL you fail to produce a valid medical card, they will not renew your CDL, and your license will be downgraded.

No CDL disqualification affects your ability to operate a non-CDL vehicle.

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Right or wrong, that's not what the DMV CDL person told me. That's why I asked for others to call and find out. She said the licence would be no good. It looks like we are going all kind of different answers even from the top. I think I'm going to just get my class "D" since I'll never drive again.

 

Different or conflicting answers do seem to be the norm. I see you are from Nevada. Many states have already started the "self certification" process, but NV says they will begin it Jan 28, 2013 to be in compliance by Jan 30, 2014. If yo are not certified (Self certification on file and if necessary a medical card on file) they state that "The NV DMV will notify you that you are no longer medically certified to operate a CMV and will then remove all your CDL privileges from your license". They further state that if your MC expires before you provide them with a new one "The NV DMV will notify you that you are no longer medically certified to operate a CMV and will then remove all your CDL privileges from your license."

http://nevadadmv.state.nv.us/cdlcertify.htm

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tennessee has already started this as well. i got the letter in october for my renewal this month. all i had to do was email TDOT a scanned PDF copy of the long form and med card along with the letter you have to sign that they send you. i sent it to the email address they provided in the letter then called them and made sure it was there. she updated the information while i was on the phone.

they state in the letter that if you fail to send them the new health card info, your CDL will be downgraded to a regular operators license.

 

wow. the DOT physicals here are 38 bucks.

 

What's not to trust? Unless you want to make sure you get the extra's like coughing and bending over.

Walk in clinics tend to be the cheapest.

You can google "(your town, NJ) DOT physicals" and find them all in a 50 mile radius.