Surrendering health card?

Don't know of any drivers using oxygen while driving...just have to ask a safety man or dot doc.

 

Let the Dr figure it out. The Regs are vague. They state “Has no established medical history or clinical diagnosis of a respiratory dysfunction likely to interfere with his/her ability to control and drive a commercial motor vehicle safely;”

 

You generally are disqualified from driving a 18 wheeler when on oxygen. Generally if you need it to exist in life and do things not in bed sick, you are sicker than most people who maintain saturation without oxygen.

You will be challenged with a Pulmonary Function Test without Oxygen and have to pass it.

In industrial minerals such as limestone powder and others are inside my own lungs with verified damage in places. It's enough to prevent me from continuing on with bulk tanking which was a source of that trouble over the years. However I have other issues and am not prescribed oxygen yet. Not that sick.

Can a driver on oxygen therapy be qualified to drive in interstate commerce?

 

Did you ever sign anything that says you are legally obligated to surrender the health card under such and such circumstances? This is bureaucracy in action, and it is simple. If it's not explicitly stated in the black and white text from the health card application (what is this, DOT long form?), it is not applicable. Nobody makes these decisions based on what they thought the right thing to do was. Follow the directions on the long form exactly.