Getting your own medical card

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by truckerlife74, Apr 23, 2016.

  1. truckerlife74

    truckerlife74 Medium Load Member

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    Usf holland and dm bowman has contacted me so far
     
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  3. EZ Money

    EZ Money Road Train Member

    Bowman has ads for drivers 24-7 for the last few years....
    Are you sure you want to hire on with a big company?
     
  4. truckerlife74

    truckerlife74 Medium Load Member

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    Those are the current ones so far just started the local search that's all
     
  5. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    A lot of clinics aren't partnered with sleep study clinics
     
  6. EZ Money

    EZ Money Road Train Member

    That is correct!
    That is what i was trying to get across to the OP....

    Truckerlife are you looking for local work or regional?
     
  7. PackRatTDI

    PackRatTDI Licensed to Ill

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    I got my physical renewed and sleep apnea, body mass index, my fat ###, etc. didn't even come up. I only got a year but that's due to my medications.
     
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  8. Brandt

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    If you have sleep apnea the life you save will be your own using the cpap machine.
     
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    I have a CPAP machine and use it, however it seems a lot of these clinics are sending guys to get tested that probably don't need to but the money incentive is too good. Then these poor guys get billed inflated costs for both test and machine if they need one.
     
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  10. Brandt

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    The first test of sleep apnea is to see if you even have it. So if they don't have it all the testing stops their. If the have sleep apnea then you go to the next stage and find out what pressure you need to fix the problem.
     
  11. Brandt

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    Once a person get their base number then even they can see/know if they have sleep apnea.
     
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