New Medical Certification Requirements.VERY IMPORTANT

The feds have been taking over trucking and this is another step. Everyone wants safe drivers and one rule at a time non-conformers are being weeded out.

I like consistency as much as anyone but we're taking the spirit right out of trucking.

The tough, the can-do, the resourceful, the suvivor types who are just a bit off beat and quirky, who resist rules just because that's their nature, they're going to find themselves without a trucking job when it's all said and done.

Likewise our potential Einsteins are taking Ritalin and we'll never know what they might have been.

We're less than a year away from our medical histories going global and then to be used to label us fit or not.

If you're old no one will hire you. If you snore no one will hire you. If you're fat no one will hire you. If you smoke no one will hire you. If you took Ritalin as a child no one will hire you.

Don't ignore the path we're on. If you don't care about your own individual future then someone else will care, someone else will decide for you.

 

1/30/2012 isn't really all that new but yea pretty important.

 

Been many threads on this. Nothing new.

Just a driver finding out and thinking it is something new and unheard of.

 

The OP lives under a rock...

 

As I briefly said before, When I had my last DOT Physical, I was told that in July 2014 all DOT Physical results would be computerized and sent to the DVM. This means the examiners office has to be on line with MVD. It also means that your records are automatically updated. So providing you complete your Medical in a timely manner prior to its expiration so the original post on this thread will be obsolete.

 

Yes, but it may be a revelation for those who have a different mailing address on their license and receive no notification.

 

Why do you need a notification?

You carry your card with you, it is dated and you know it will last for two years unless you have a restricted 1 yrs.
As for the address, you are required to provide a valid contact address (Not PO Box) and if you move you should update your records. It is your responsibility to make sure your records are up to date and renewed when required.

 

This OP has received this letter because his DOT Medial is close to expiring, this is nothing new, If you are unfit for a DOT Medical Card no one is going to forge you one, like stated above if you have any of these symptoms then you may not qualify! End of story, the Feds or the States or even the companies don't want a 80K pound vehicle barreling down the road that is not under control at all times, These guys do this but not for long till they kill the family of 4 with 2 additional family members in the vehicle who were on their way home from their annual family reunion. I hope this explains something but I'm not sure it does. Be Safe get the Medical Care that you need!