Do They Check Your Medical Records?

Just wait a few years until you are on a medication that is NOT a disqualifier by the DOT, but no company will touch you because of it. I guarantee you will not list that on the forum where it ask what medications you are on. With everyones records on a centeral data base, you would be out of a job. Things look black and white when you're young and healthy.

I know of some people that have been on medications that companies will not accept, but they have been safely driving for over 20 years while taking said medication.

 

The company CAN request additional information from your doctor concerning your health. It depends on the information needed.

In the case of the diabetes waiver, they may want additional facts concerning the health of the driver and the past history of the illness before determination of hiring.

The same would hold true with a medical history of heart disease, bypass or attack.

If you think that not telling them is the way to go, be advised that IF you have an accident your medical history will be reviewed.

If your truck is searched and medicine is found and issued prior to the medical card and not shown, you could have problems.

You can also be alot like some of the people here and just think it will not happen to you or you will not be searched.

Believe what you want.

 

The problem with diabetes is whether you are insulin dependent or not for the start.

 

People can believe me or not. Within a few years a drivers health history will be available on line to certified DOT doctors before you will be able to get a medical card. This is already in the works. This is why we keep hearing of government certified doctors for DOT physicals, and why there is a push for medical records being put into a data base. If you want to drive, you will sign that waiver.

As it is right now, you can be on 20 different pills and have a major illness. If you can take your meds, and look and act decent, you can lie on the forums and pass a DOT physical with a doctor that does not know you. Someone in Washington found this out, thus the reasons for the changes.

 

Unfortunately you are 100 percent correct! Which is precisely why my time in this industry is extremely limited. Even though i have been diagnosed with a disqualifying condition but somehow, in spite of the "experts" and all their fancy college degrees, i have managed to do my job for the last 12 years and to date, knock on wood 3 times, i have never had a problem!!!

 

If you have to take shots, you are disqualified from driving.