DOT physical mandatory body fat test?

Where did you see this? Body fat tests are not accurate because muscle weighs more.

 

Really now? Please support that with proper documentation, because to my knowledge it ain't so.

 

That would be a big, fat, no.

 

http://www.csa2010.com/articles/FAQs_CSA_2010.htm#UP

Scroll down to #71 and you'll plainly see there is no requirement- yet. I wouldn't be surprised to see one in the future, though.

Whether there's a requirement or not, though, getting healthy is a very good thing for anyone.

 

Maybe the outpatient clinics like Concentra medical haven't started requiring it yet, I would do a little more research first. However anything that involves DOT wouldn't surprise me one bit

 

http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/documents/safetyprograms/Medical-Report.pdf://

Doesn't list it here.

 

Well... because he heard it in a truckstop, that's why!!

The doctor, who read that "something" might be on the horizon, was repeating something that wasn't in effect yet, or at all, or even formally discussed... and then went to a truckstop to ask trucker's opinions, and see what they had heard... and sure enough, the drivers at the Subway restaurant in the Pilot in North Las Vegas confirmed that they had heard the same thing... so it must be the Gospel.

 

I have heard it tossed around as far as the FMCSA goes, even for CSA2010 but it has not passed (yet). Maybe it is your companies requirement to check for that. It is possible some company may decide to do that, but as far as law, I couldn't find it either.