Medical Card Changes - US Xpress

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I want pretty girls to sell me drugs that the doctor writes me a note to have!! With feel like I am seriously missing out here!!

I guess the whole medical cars thing must make sense after you've been doing it for so many years, but in Canada (and we drive in the USA too) we arent required to have some DOT approved company quack sign a permission slip to drive... Every time our license comes up for renewal (that would be 5 years where I live) I have to see a doctor with a form I get from the DMV and pay like $60 to a walk in clinic doctor to fill it out. Produce said form when renewing my license, and ka-Ching! Voila!


We're also allowed to haul 92,000 lbs in a tandem and can drive 13 consecutive hours and our window is 16 hours. 8 hours off instead of 10 and work a 70 hours in 7 days instead of 8. No wet behind the ears kid right of out med school telling us we need a sleep study. We also allow diabetics who control their disease with insulin to drive trucks, which to me seems safer than only allowing diabetics who don't control with insulin.

Factor in the stone-cold-ridiculous weather on the northern side of the border and truck crashes should be the leading cause of death in Canada, yet...

There is virtually no difference in the safety ratings or likelihood of accidents causing harm OR property damage.

How's all that "it's-for-your-own-good" governance working out?

 

my bp with meds runs 120-128/72-80.... so by the regs I can have a 2 year card
my diabetes A1C with meds runs 6.6-6.8 so by the regs I can have a 2 year card

but us xpress will only let me have a 1 year card

 

Exactly all these tighter constraints do nothing towards safety but lines the pockets of others and makes people outside of trucking think the FMCSA is doing something.

 

Canada is also far less populated, we have almost 10x the amount of people than Canada, so naturally we have more screw ups running around.

 

Again, if you read the links, it's at the Dr's discretion, but both say a minimum 1 yr card.

 

I DID read it.... maybe YOU should
my BP has never been at or above 140/90 before I was put on meds.... so by the link YOU posted I can have a 2 year card...

as to the link YOU posted about diabetes nothing in it said REQUIERS a 1 year card

my Dr's discretion is to give me a 2 year card..... companies discretion is to only allow me to have a 1 year card

 

none.... as a O/O I go off site..... I have to pay for it anyway

last year I have me DR that I have been seeing for 13 years do it..... usx made me go back to him and have him change it from a 2 year card to a 1 year card...... company policy

this year I can't get in to him at the time I need to go so I will go to one in Lebanon, tn. to get it monday

 

Sounds like company is thinking they can play doctor. If you go to a registered DOT doctor and they give you a two year what makes any company think that they can over rule the professional opinion of the doctor. Did the safety department all of a sudden get their Phd?