Potential employer asking for 36 years of medical history?

no it is not normal, and the employer has no duty to keep anything private.

All I need to know is if you have a valid medical clearance.

 

You never ran a credit check or criminal history on a new applicant?

 

They cannot access your medical info, beyond a dot physical, without your authorization. HIPPA protects your privacy. I had who I thought was a safety pogue ask me all kinds of medical crap. She ended up being from their insurance provider. I cut her off. There is no legal reason for them to ask you for your records.

 

Sounds like to me they want future medical records if you go to their doctors. If you get hurt on the job and need medical leave or sleep apnea results or compliance if they provide that to drivers. I don’t think you can sign anything that will give them access to your past medical history. HIPPA will stop them. You would have sign papers at every doctor you go to for them to release your medical records. It would be to easy to just make up a medical release for and sign you name. No doctor’s office would except that. You would have sign papers for them to release your records.

 

That’s different. I can read a criminal history, but medical history, I can not, I am not a doctor.

A criminal history is clear, I do not have to be trained in how to read it and interpret it.

Medical records I can read but interpreting it requires a medical education in the form of a doctor or nurse.

I only need to know whether the driver is legally able to drive under the FMCSA regulations or not.

I also know anything that is given to me is not protected by any law, my obligation to do so is waived if like in the case of the op, signed that right away or sent me medical records.

Now if I went to his provider and fraudulently got his records, that’s on both of us - the provider and me.

HIPAA does not protect anyone if it is used for a dot physical, meaning that the examiner and only the examiner has to duty to examine the records that have to do with passing a physical. On the other hand it is only … ONLY for providers, it does not apply to a carrier.

 

I would never sign anything like that and wouldn't work for a company that expects me to.

 

What about when driver get Random drug test. They have be able to share the results with your carrier and we have the drug clearing house thing the government runs now. A new job also includes they have check that government website to see if a driver has every tested positive for drugs or if driver refuses to take test.

my company had use do several things to get that ok so they could run use thru the database from what remember.

 

If you want to work for a company & be covered by their liability insurance you can comply or go start your own trucking company. The company gets sued when you screw up. They will not just accept your assurance you are healthy. Life is not a hypothetical situation. There are other jobs besides trucking.