Traumatic Brain Injury and DOT Physical to get hired?

Que @Chinatown to say don’t ever volunteer info. I learned he’s right.

 

Never offer information. If you can pass your dot physical, you are good to go. Honesty does not get you anywhere in physicals.

 

Be truthful about the injury if, deep down, you don't really want to be a trucker.

 

Put a tattoo of a big zipper over the scar.
Wear a toupee just long enough to complete the physical.

 

as long as you are NOT taking any anti-seizure meds, then

SHUT UP about the injury...

 

try one of these, to cover up that scar..







and right now, I AM wearing this one...!!!!!!

 

Ive been hit on the head so much as a teen either in fights or something else. You would think after getting my bell rung (It takes alot...) I would be a problem. It never has come up anywhere. Went up against a lead pipe once. Got inside of it took a part of it fast enough to get to mad mad and throw him down, he cracked his skull against a fencing about waist high and that was the end of that one. (He lived, but his fighting days were over much more docile)

I don't talk about stuff that got hurt, bent or stressed in DOT examiners ever. I actually have a damaged sternum which you think would affect my work. But it held up very well until in the late 40's arthritis of a particular kind set into there first ending any chance of lumping.

You don't volunteer nothing. However if you ever have a hard contact with the Law, you must tell them you have had a TBI so you can allow them to modify the situation so you do not get anymore hurt then you were already. Which I seriously doubt will happen out there on the road. But anything is possible.

There are certain kinds of trucking such as flatbedding in which you really need to watch where you stick that head. Cranes and flying things can clock you pretty good in those mills.

 

You know most of those out have had a few conks on the head since we are all still kids. As long as no strange stuff is going on I would see what they find without telling them.