I'm getting ready to enroll in school. I just read that color blindness is a non forgivable offense on the medical test. Am I wasting my time or is there hope? I'm in Michigan.
Being color blind does not hamper you from holding a CDL or driving a truck, unless your so bad you cannot tell one color from the next, those stupid color tests you get at the dr,s office is a joke, find the number or letter in a jumbled mess of colors, if you cant, your colorblind,, look at it this way being considered color blind will keep you out of the military. As long as you can see red, green. yellow, blue, purple, brown, etc your good to go.
What Peanut Butter said is correct. I've had color vision problems for 20+ years. I can't see anything in those silly color test books. I always tell the Doc just point to different colors and I've never failed. Duane
Partially correct. If you cannot recognize the traffic colors red, green, and yellow you may be medically disqualified with a valid CDL. Just because your CDL is valid does not mean your qualified to operate a CMV. You must also have a DOT physical. Be safe.
as long as you can see red yellow and green you should be fine i am colorblind and have not had any problems on my physicals
I'm monochromatic color blind (that was the diagnosis given me following about 100 of those color dot tests where you are suppose to see numbers in the dots - I see none...not one) which is suppose to be as severe as it gets when it comes to color blindness. Whenever I have taken my CDL test, I bring three identical buttons (red, green, yellow) and give them to the tester. They show them randomly to me and I can always get it correct (for me it is the intensity of the color which makes it possible for me to see, or not see the color...pastels all look the same to me...gray). Anyway, I bet you can see the colors if there is adequate pigmentation...just get yourself three buttons that are identical and have them in your pocket for the test.
There are a few ways to tell what the light is green or red. 1) green is almost always on top and red on the bottom. 2) Just watch to see when people in front of you are moving, then you will know it is ok to proceed. 3) When people stop then you know the light is red, and that you need to stop as well.. 4) Maybe a seeing eye dog. He will bark once for red, and twice for green. And if it yellow well, he just peed in your seat LOL...
