Need advice on getting CDL, legally blind in one eye.

It's not uncommon for doctors to NOT fill out all the appropriate information.

Every 2 years I get my med cert and go to the dmv and back and forth 3 times before the dmv accepts it. I've learned to proof read it since.

Once you've got your permit. You're golden. Just need to finish the last steps for that official hard copy plastic. And make sure it has that golden star TSA wants.

If you can maintain 20/40 vision. And peripheral. You shouldn't have a problem.

 

You'll do fine... swift drivers have 2 good eyes and they still end up in the ditch..

 

Sounds like this won't help you but I"ll post it anyways.

Progressive lenses might help. I don't have focus either. I'm far sighted. I can't read close up as my focus adjuster don't work. I don't remember the exact wording for the actual part in the eye. Progressives help that problem so I can see far and read close. It's a different magnification throughout the lenses. Whatever they call it. They work really good.

When I first started wearing. They didn't work. I was told tunnel vision. I could only see directly out the middle. Personally, I think they just screwed up. I went to Americas best. Cheapest place in town and they have a few locations. Been around for decades.

Another suggestion might be eye surgery such as lasik. Sounds like they have a lot of advancements in technnology that can fix pretty much everything.

Again. I don't know your condition. These are merely suggestions.

I have astygmatism in the right eye. Lasik couldn't help me in the beginning but it can now. I just don't see the sense in having lasik for the rest of my life. Eyes go bad with old age. And they keep going badder.

At some point I may consider if the advancements keep up. I really don't want THICK lenses. But trying to keem them thin is getting harder and more expensive.

 

Generally for car driving it's not a problem as long you have one eye. The other does not matter.

In trucking you need two good eyes corrected if necessary to 20/40. Without that you cannot get Tier One Interstate and intrastate commerce DOT Medical.

You probably are where I was 10 years ago when I lost vision in one eye. Turned out for me a cataract was formed and has to have surgery to have that plus the natural lenses removed from that eye and replaced to restore the sight and improve on it in certain ways. (Fixed focal distance 24 inches which happens to be where my handgun front sight sits, I don't need glasses to shoot or bowl or drive anymore essentially)

Get that eye looked at and determine if whatever the problem killing your vision can be fixed.

 

Didn't you have to pass the DOT physical to get a permit?
If so, it's just a matter of getting a cdl license and finding a company.
There are non-cdl driving jobs also, driving box trucks.

 

You don't need 2 good eyes to drive a semi.

I don't know how he did it but one guy i know had what looked to be a glass eye. I never asked him about it. But the eye never moved.

He was driving a local dump truck though. Probably woulnd't qualify for anything else.

 

Funny......these days it don't seem to be just Swift