Prescription Medication Question and CDL, (Librium) for anxiety.

DOT Disqualifying Medications: What You Need to Know

Librium is a pretty strong drug. If you've already 'spilled the beans' about having once taken it, you'll just have to take your chances (and prepare to be blacklisted). If you have not told anybody about it, DO NOT TELL ANYBODY!!! Oh, and NEVER TAKE IT AGAIN WHILE DRIVING A TRUCK.

Now, if you've kept mum about it, and they are going to do hair analysis, got to the barber and have your hair (and beard) cut down to a short-but-not-shaved length. Just enough for, say, what a shaved head would look like after 2 months. Also, 'manscape' yourself; you don't want any hair on your body to be longer than what would grow in 2 months time!

I knew somebody who was on Librium years ago, and he was always 'doped-up' and often drooling. I'm surprised they even use this drug outside of mental hospitals today.

 

If you no longer take them the truthful answer is no. I have had many surgeries (unfortunately) over the years and have never disclosed that I had taken prescribed pain killers while trying to get hired on. I took them legally, the company I worked for knew about the surgery, only took them as prescribed and never drove while taking them. There is nothing questionable or technical about your answer, you are not currently taking any prescribed meds!!

 

Here is a better more concise link to the actual disqualifying meds. The reason I bring this up is unless it is mentioned in THIS link the choice to qualify the driver is up to the ME.

The reason it is important to understand this is how the FMCSA has changed over the last 15 or so years. The first thing they did was to stop just any medical provider from being a ME. I think this was finished in 2014. They also issued a guide for medical examiners where they go over item by item what they want the ME to do. Since this change, the FMCSA has placed more of the decision-making onus on the MEs and because of this MEs are now more and more demanding more information from the driver's physicians. This has also caused a collision with HIPAA in some situations.

The last time I was at the Hampton Veterans Hospital I was speaking to a driver who recently got a 3-month physical pending a letter from the Cardiologist there stating his Angina pain is stable. The man told the truth on his long-form and as you can see what he got and what he was doing that day.