Does a bipolar diagnosis disqualify me from truck driving?

If your condition is under control and you can get a medical then you should be okay. Just dont try to be a team by yourself.

 

Sorry, and for real advice. Go to a doctor who does DOT physicals. Ask him. Do this on your own so no company will have access to it. Should cost you about $150. Of course you could just call him and ask the question for free.

 

driving crappy little roach-coach is not a comparison of driving an 80,000 pound truck.

go to a doctor, that DOES DOT EXAMS, and go from there. but if you are on "pyscotic-drugs", i hope you DO NOT GET CERTIFIED to drive.

and IF you do get DOT certified, and you get hired on by a trucking company, THAT company STILL HAS THE RIGHT to deny you employment, as YOU WILL HAVE TO divulge the usage of any meds you are on.

best to not even get into trucking, get into something else.

 

relax francis.....

i doubt the op will have any problems as long as the condition is stable.

bi-polar is NOT as serious as Gizmo_Man seems to think.

many folks are bi-polar, just as many folks are uninformed #######es

GL to the OP

 

thankfully i'm an informed j.a............

 

Having been diagnosed as Bi-polar myself, we called it manic-depressive then (didn't need meds tho), I find OTR very satisfying. Goal oriented,piece-work,supervisor 1000miles away,do things Ur own way within a frame-work of safety rules. This job is, I think, perfect for a stable bi-polar with ambition & smart enough to understand their condition to offset it.:smt079 Lot of loneliness tho, remember to keep a support group handy, I call & talk with several friends & family members each week to keep grounded.

 

years ago i drove team with a driver who was bipolar. he was taking several prescription drugs for treatment. all i can say that it was a very scary time for me and after 3 weeks i got out of that truck as fast as i could. i think that the long hours of driving and the stress of the job were to much for him to handle. just my point of view on the subject.

 

so now you are a doctor..??

talk about being one of the "uninformed #######es"..yourself.

he also talks about "smoking wed" a few times. do you realistically think in your mind that he does not do that anymore..???

he belongs not on the road as a driver, but maybe as a construction worker, tying up our time, while he leans on a shovel watching the long back up, zoning out on his pyscotic drugs.

 

and there you go, a person on any pyscotic drug can be a dangerous thing.