National Data base for Medical Certification

I am a DMV employee in NY in the CDL Policy dept. I do not know your home state but in NY a CDL is good for up 8 years. A Med Cert is good for a min of 3 month and up to 2 yrs. A Med Variance can be valid for 3 months up to 2 yrs. The Med Cert and Med Variance date of expirations are set by FMCSA. You can have a Med Cert without a Variance but you cannot have a Variance without a Med Cert. If you have both, when one expires the other is no longer valid. You will have to submit a new Med Cert to the NYSDMV Med Cert Unit (MCU) as soon as you get it. NYSDMV has 10 calendar days to place the Med Cert on your Driving Record from the date it has been received in the Albany MCU. If you drop off the Med Cert at a field office the clock dose not start at that time. Only when it has arrived in the MCU dose the clock start. At this time NYS is not set up to take in all the Data from Self Certification, Medical Certificates, and Medical Variances. A new data system is being built and should be operational by 1-Oct-2012. In Sept NYSDMV will send out Notification Letters that will inform all CDL Holders what to do and how to reply on the form to certify properly and submit copies of all needed documentation. From Oct-2012 to Oct-13 NYSDMV will take in all this data and enter it into the new Data base. Over 600,000 drivers will be captured. In Nov a final mass mailing will take place to reach out to all non-complaint CDL holders. On Feb 1 2014 all remaining CDL holders who have not complied will be Downgraded and a new non-CDL Lic will be issued.

 

WWW fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/safetyprograms/Medical-Report.pdf

 

I received mine early this month or late last month.

Could not find it, so I called the Illinois Secretary of State and they told me not to do anything until after January 30, 2012.

Since my license expires about 6 weeks later, they told me I could do it all at once after the January date.

 

I got my letter from Virginia. It said I have until 2014 to get them my card or my CDL would be downgraded. I no longer drive, but don't want to give up my CDL. It cost way too much money to get to just let it go. I called my family Dr and they do not do them. I guess I will call the school I went through way back when and find out who they use. I have not had a card since 2007.