The U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a proposed draft Medical Examiner’s Handbook (MEH), including updates to the Medical Advisory ...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issued an interim final rule on June 18 that delays several provisions of its Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration final rule from taking effect ...
Almost 56% of commercial driver medical exams showed medical history errors by either drivers or certified medical examiners, according to a recent study by the American Journal of Industrial Medicine ...
The rule went into effect June 23, 2025 with a waiver until October 13, 2025. It affects CDL drivers and Motor Carriers. Medical Certification expirations won’t be missed. Physical renewals won’t slip ...
Spurred by a wake of criminal charges against medical examiners who have fraudulently issued DOT medical certificates to truck operators, the U.S. DOT’s Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday ...
One part of a Final Rule published in April that made changes to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s medical examination regulations will take effect Dec. 22. Drivers going in for their ...
Spurred by a wake of criminal charges against medical examiners who have fraudulently issued DOT medical certificates to truck operators, the U.S. DOT’s Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday ...
The seven-month outage of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners in late 2017 and half of 2018 has limited the agency's ability to properly ...
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has decided to provide a grace period for changes mandated by its Medical Examiner’s Certification Integration Final Rule, due to take effect ...
Members of the medical, transportation and safety communities have established the National Academy of DOT Medical Examiners (NADME), a non-profit organization aimed at addressing “serious flaws” in ...
“Our audit objectives are to evaluate FMCSA’s procedures for: (1) oversight of its medical certificate program, including commercial driver medical certificate data quality, and (2) validating ...
Determining the essential functions of a job can be tricky, especially if there is no information or documentation with which to compare and consider. In this case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...