If you’ve had to renew your medical certification recently and had trouble verifying your doctor’s eligibility or seeing your own qualification status online, there could be a good reason. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has reportedly confirmed to Land Line that the rumors are true: the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiner’s website was hacked late last year.
According to the FMCSA, there was an “unauthorized access” to the system on December 1st which resulted in “an unanticipated system outage.”
Since then, the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners has been offline.
The FMCSA has restored some functionality by creating a new search tool which allows drivers to verify if their doctor is an FMCSA Certified Medical Examiner (CME).
But while CMEs can still conduct DOT physicals and issue paper certificates, they’re still unable to upload any of that information into the national registry system. FMCSA is instructing them to hold on to that information and then upload it once the system is brought back online.
FMCSA claims that while the website was hacked and is currently offline, “there was no evidence of exposure of the personal information of drivers, medical examiners, or motor carrier operators.”
Source: gobytrucknews
Roadranger says
They should nuke that website and well the agency
Carl says
I agree thumbs up to that
Robert Phillips says
My medical records hacked. And you thought YOUR job was safe. How about you loose your job and we get new secrtarys of transportation.
Jerry Page says
Another wonderful government plan.just wonderful and I am wondering at what cost to tax payers to big brother in another part of our lives
Trish t says
Why am I not surprised , but hey it’s ok. Hope someone figures out to hack the elds in trucks while they at it. Just to show them how much our trucking system is so safe out here. Just can’t wait for the day the FMCSA is sued for neglect in creating such a stupid and unfair law. When all the circumstances are right in fitting a accident that kills a family who won’t stop at getting to the real reason they came up up with the rule in the first place.
And then people who made the law become accountable.
It’s never been about safety. Never will be.
It’s about lining people’s pockets.
Wait till that one driver runs out of time on his eld and in his last 30 min on conveyance he kills a family and guess what , I just hope and pray that family is smart enough to not just go after the driver and company but the People who made the law in the first place. It’s coming just wait for it. God said man will destroy himself . It’s in the making…..
tim campbell says
dont worry the new ELD mandate will save the world and global warming also .
Wendall says
Global warming has been debunked, they’re calling it climate change now.
Scott says
Global warming and climate change is the same thing! They only changed the name people stupid people don’t understand it with that name. They think that the temp is supposed to rise very high, when in truth it is just a few degrees higher then normal , but just enough to melt the ice and raise the ocean level. (example 30 degrees is now 33 degrees)
Smokewrench says
But… The FMCSA deputy says “tech is the next frontier”. How can this be? Hopefully they automate trucking soon so the hackers can steal personal information from the computers that drive the trucks using other computers. Right? I kinda miss the early nineties…
Eddie J Wright says
Wonderful, thank you for your diligence in exposing information to whoever, I wonder if they can hack into and alter our wonderful New e log system?
zee says
yes…the hacks are doing the inevitable.
if my dispatcher can hack my eld..and that’s happened a few times,to reset my hours..especially a POD hauler I worked for…whence the hacker gains entry to the company’s computers… than all bets are off.
Carl says
Come on PRESIDENT TRUMP. YOU GOT OUR VOTE Please lets get some relief from the madness called FMCSA.get us a break we make the country’s goods move. You can Stop this madness.
Michael says
As stated. The building system that put ELD,s in trucks had no Idea of what our Job,s truly consist of but will find out by the death of families in the near future because the 14 hour clock doesn’t allow a driver time to rest once clocked in and sitting on a dock door for 4-8 hours then drivivg through a major city during rush hour and attempting to drive 6-7 hours worn out to make impossible delivery time,s. Now we have to worry about our personal health records. What next
James says
Thanks to thd eld they will be hacking your truck next