Denied by FMSCA (lazy eye), suggested to look into state driving (NY) Where to go from here?

Why would you want to get in a career where every 1-2 years you will have to fight just to keep your job?
I suggest a vocation that does not require as much regulation on eye sight.
Plumbing, electrical, welding all pay good and no worry every physical if you will keep your career.

 

Computers pay dng good. My bro in law is 19. Got his C+ cert. Working on associates degree. Already has job lined up when he graduates making 60k start.

 

I'd try the intra-state driving to gain experience. Some of us aren't cut out to sit in an office or punch a time clock in a factory or retail store.

 

Your drooping eyelid can be fixed.
Check w an eye doctor and facial plastic surgeon.
They remove some eyelid muscle.

 

If you are unable to get certified you won't be able to get any job in state or out that requires a CDL. Have you tried going to a different Dr?

 

Do you have an appeals process in this situation? Because you're saying your optometrist had adjudged you as fit for duty per the DOT regulations. This other doctor is arbitrarily denying you the medical clearance. Meanwhile, the FMCSA is probably making a decision based on limited information, and are assuming that you are not as safe as the next person without a vision deficiency. You have objective medical evidence showing that you do not, in fact, have a vision deficiency. Call them back, and explain the situation--but before you do that, send them the documents from your optometrist showing you are fit for duty per DOT regulations . Make sure that optometrist states in their letter, that they are familiar with the DOT regulations specifically. That is key.

Their argument will unravel completely when you can show them you do not have a vision deficiency. You could also call out the doctor who is arbitrarily denying you a medical clearance, for disability discrimination. If he's not performing objective medical tests to show you do not meet the minimum vision requirements, then he's just discriminating against you at first glance--clear and simple.

You have evidence that you do not have a vision deficiency--from an optometrist. The optometrist specializes in eye disorders and is far more qualified than this idiot doing your physical. Let me guess, he's a chiropractor or P.A. or some other unqualified idiot who refers every fat guy to his buddy's sleep apnea clinic down the street. That's your argument dude, if this idiot doing your DOT physical isn't equally as qualified as your optometrist, I'd say he should shove his opinion up his orifice.

You see what I'm saying? Don't give up the fight and nail them as hard as you can on this one. You're being discriminated against based on stereotypes, and that's against the law. Blow the whistle on this one, please.

If your lazy eye isn't actually causing a legitimate vision impairment--and it sounds like it is not based off your optometrist's assertions--then I think your doctor is discriminating against you based off stereotypes. Essentially, you're being denied a DOT medical clearance for cosmetic reasons, and that is not legitimate at all. I'm pretty sure that is illegal, it's probably an ethics violation on this so-called "doctor"'s part , and I think you can nail them good on this.

 

Yep, but from what I've read, they use muscle from the forehead to assist the levator muscles(which hold the eyelids up). I have had a lazy eye all my life and never had any problems with the DOT physical...and vision in that eye isn't as strong as the other and everything has a slight blue tint to it.

 

The OP probably should go to another state and start over and not mention anything about the past. No reason to invite problems that don't exist.
Maybe he has relatives in a faraway state and can go there and use their address. While there he can say, "Know what? I think I want to be a truck driver. Any cdl schools around here?"