New Medical Certification Requirements.VERY IMPORTANT

The trucking companies got themselves into this mess, they will have to get themselves out of it. They will have to upgrade their standards in addition to upgrading their pay scales to clean up this mess of a situation.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

anyone notice a lot of the owner operator specifically from Bakersfield California or Illinois are slobs, and park the truck wherever they want. I know many do but I pay attention to from and it's A BAD pattern

 

ohio has that to my birthday is in 7 days not going to renew my medical wonder which one should i choose just to keep my cdl till i find something else?

 

Just got a brand spankin new CDL DOT physical exam. I'm in Texas and they told me it was only good for 1 year now. Is everyone aware of this new 1 year law?

 

It's not law unless you are borderline high BP or borderline something.

Don't forget to give a copy to the state DMV as it isn't 1/30/14 yet.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/internetforms/Forms/CDL-7.pdf

 

None of that is law... it's just what the recommendation of the medical review board is. High BP, type 2 diabetes, etc., will get you a 1-year card instead of a 2-year card. It's been that way for some time.

 

Yep got high blood pressure but take medicine for it to keep it under control. Thanks for the reminder but I went to the DMV and filed it today also.

 

You must be stage 2 hypertension. Once under control they will limit it to one year.

If borderline you might need additional medicine.

Here's an offlink to the regs.

http://datcs.com/faqs/q-what-are-the-dot-physical-blood-pressure-requirements

 

Thanks for the link Condocruiser. I am a stage 1. I have only been on blood pressure medicine for 1 week. I took my blood pressure a few weeks ago knowing the DOT physical was coming up. I''m 49 years young, 5'11" & now weigh 206lbs. Never had a problem with this before. My blood pressure today was 120 over 80. Before the medicine it was 140ish over 90ish which is borderline. Glad I found this before the DOT pyhsical & went to the doc to get it taken care of. I was up to 230lbs and had been dieting & excersizing for a few weeks hoping to get it down without taking any meds but ran out of time. Doc says that if I can get down to 180lbs & keep excersizing that I probably won't need to take the medicine any more.So if yall see an idiot running around his truck & trailer at the truck stops it could be me. It's hard to find time & a place to excersise. Why don't they put gyms at truck stops & have some healthy foods?





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