Persuing Trucking after college, have you done it?

Ohh ok thanks! So it turns out I’m going to do trucking now, I’m just saving money for the school. I just wanted to ask if you can help me out about asthma. My asthma is very mild, practically non-existent, as a over weight kid my asthma was out of control. I took the initiative to exercise and lose weight and now my asthma is under controlled. I have a albuterol Inhaler that I use a few times a year and I refill it about one every 2-3 years. My question is why would happen in a DOT physical? From other people, they told me that I will get a 1 year medical card and that I have to do a physical for every year?

 

Funny thing is that I had a physical with my primary doctor and they didn’t detect any abnormal sound through the sthetoscope. I don’t have any hard wheezing, just hard to breathe during certain occasions haha, that’s why I have my inhaler. Most of my primary doctors didn’t even know that I had asthma until I “disclosed” it to them. Would I have to disclose my asthma problems to the DOT physicians even tho I have them under control through my primary doc?

 

That’s what I was thinking of your earlier comment when you said “if the doctor finds out about the asthma” haha

 

I know how you feel, it’s stupid how the education system works. You go to school, get a college degree, come out to barely get into entry level jobs paying $11-15 an hr depending on your field. School is hella expensive, it’s not getting any cheaper. You still have tuition and also cost of living, being born is expensive and even when were dead and gone it’s still expensive lol.