CDL Questions after retirement

You're done let it lay. It will all expire....

 

I'd report it so IF you ever had to come back to trucking that won't be a barrier.

 

You have 1 year from the day your medical card expires.
After the year you will have to start allover again.
The state will automatically down grade your CDL.
Should you change your mind and get a new medical card you will have to take the haz mat test to get your CDL back.

 

Here in the state of Indiana, if medical card has expired for over 365 days, you have to start completely from scratch, as if you had never had a CDL.
All written tests(including basic automobile driving laws), road test, supplemental training, the whole bit.

 

Isn't it easier to change your status to "intrastate exempt" and avoid the whole downgrade thing?

 

The state of Indiana does not have that classification. I was going to do that myself.
The only thing you can do is agricultural exempt commodities, which doesn't require a CDL at all, as long as you follow all the strict guidelines ( commodity farm to market, within 150 mile radius, nothing for hire, has to be employed by the farm that the commodities came from etc., truck has to be plated by that farm etc.