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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tscottme, post: 12230980, member: 19119&quot;]There is a database for all drug prescriptions. Few ever look in that database for anything other than drugs than are widely abused. If any of your medication were pain-killers, powerful stimulants, you may have a problem if you forget to mention them. If your insurance company was paying bills for your treatment, that info will be available to other insurance companies, but they may not use it. When you are filling out the DOT Medical Card questionnaire, they are going to know what you tell them. If you don&#039;t mention things in the past, and there are no serious scars or strange devices implanted in your body, you will walk out of the clinic with a DOT Medical Card. The DOT doctors and nurses are not drinking buddies, or partners in health, or life coaches. They serve one purpose, taking away the ability to drive if you have serious or dangerous medical conditions. Technically, if you can&#039;t bring the names, addresses, summary of every medical condition you have EVER been treated for and put that on the questionnaire you are not able to pass the exam. You can spend hours tracking down the doctor that took out your tonsils and the doctor that stitched up your cut when you were 12, or you might forget those happened. They will only know what you tell them. If you admit to snoring or having difficulty sleeping on occasion you will be prescribed a sleep test. Your urine sample will only check for too much sugar (diabetes) and blood/evidence of infection. They are not putting your urine sample into a $12 million dollar mass-spectrometer to detect if you have some exotic illness. They won&#039;t even test your urine for pot, cocaine, heroin, or meth. That test will happen at CDL school or before you get hired by a company. Let your conscience be your guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, trucking was ALWAYS an anxiety-filled job. There are lots of situations nobody trains you for and you may not know what to do when they happen. I found the people in trucking were the major problem. EVERYONE in shipping/receiving/trucking blames their lack of effort or performance on the man that is conveniently not here, the driver. The dispatcher will blame the driver for being late when she is talking to an angry customer looking for their freight, even when that dispatcher hasn&#039;t given that load to ANY driver yet. The last-shipping shipper will conveniently blame the driver when the receiver doesn&#039;t get the freight they shipped 6 hours late. Get ready to be blamed for the traffic in every city, the lack of truck parking in only 95% of the country, and be blamed for the bad weather when it causes you to be late for a pick-up or delivery. &quot;You should have left earlier!&quot; Earlier than the shipper shipped it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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