Living on painkillers

Please do everyone a favor and stay off the road.

 

Does the medication indicate that you should not drive or operate machinery?

 

Trucking is only going to worsen your spine problems.

 

Can not use that analogy anymore. If you read the bottle on 90% of the medicine prescribed these days it says do not operate machinery. Blood Pressure,pain,diabetes etc etc.It is called covering there Axx. I do not think anyone taking any kind of hard core pain med should drive period . If you are hurting bad enough to take a pain pill then you no way can sit up and drive long periods...............Yes I know, if I only take them on my 10 hour break yada yada have heard it all. If you have pain management problems I would advise getting it fixed before you try to sit in a bumpy truck for 11 hours a day..........My 2 Cents

 

There is a list of medications which are prohibited by the feds in order to qualify to drive. Drivers are required to submit to pre hire and random drug testing. If the medication you take will interfere with your ability to safely operate a truck, you will not be able to get a job driving. You might want to look into dispatching for a carrier or something else which does not involve being behind the wheel. Before you spend money on driving school, you may want to check with a clinic or doctor that does dot physicals and see if you would qualify, based upon what you have mentioned in your post. In fact, you could pay for a dot physical and see if you can pass. That would answer your question.

 

Why arnt you on disability?

 

Many (most?) of the larger outfits that hire new drivers have a physical agilities test regime they perform as part of their pre-hire physical. And, most carriers would probably not hire somebody who couldn't or wouldn't be able to hand unload anything from cases of diapers and dog food, to SUV tires, even if driver assist or unload is frowned upon by a particular carrier. Then you have to hand crank landing gear each trailer drop and hook, pull difficult 5th wheel releases and sliding tandem pin unlock bars, and safely and agilely climb into and out of the rear of a trailer from the ground . Those with back and neck/shoulder issues are going to have difficulty at some point in the trucking game.

 

With all these problems you have wrong with your body,trk driving is deffinately not for you.Don't think you would even pass the physical.