Trucking with mild asthma

Should only affect your ability if you plan on pushing the truck.

You are going to need a physical for cdl school. When you get that physical you may find out you can only get a 1 year card. Not the end of the world.

If you are under control, I doubt you would get bumped. Diabetics can get health cards now, hypertension patients get a 1 year card. You should be fine.

Good luck.

 

Maybe a one year card.

I tell you what. Ive learned to sleep upwind in the truck parking where possible and on higher ground. The gases used to collect inside the sleeper making me sick now and then. Never mind your asthma.

Or coming over a 12000 foot mountain pass for a few hours. Your air saturation inside the blood will be below 90 until you adjust if you stayed up there long enough without getting mountain sick. I don't know if you want to be up there with that Asthma.

Or fueling a big rig in blizzard conditions 35 mph steady wind in your face with something around 20 below. Breathing in that cold environment is harder on a body.

Or my personal favorite. Delivering to a dusty receiver with alot of airborne particles. If that does not trigger your asthma I don't know what will.

 

Correct. The doc that does your physical determines when you need another one. They can fail you, issue a 30 or 90 day card if they see something that needs attention, a 1 year card for things like diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea. And a 2 year card if you are healthy. Healthy trucker... now thats an oxymoron!