What is the status of someone with only one eye? I remember it used to be a deal killer but I don't know whether that is still true these days. Just curious.

Birken

 

Thanks for clearing that up, Uturn. I guess I was correct the first time. :?

Birken, it is my understanding that you can drive with only one eye. I used to have a shipper who had his own trucks, at one time. He had a one eyed driver and had to let him go and pay a $10,000 fine when the DOT found out about it. They later changed the ruling, but he couldn't get his money back since that was the law at the time. The interesting thing is that the driver had never even had a speeding ticket, according to the shipper. :roll:

 

Blind drivers can use this sign on the trucks :mrgreen:
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my last physical took a whole 20 min they did not even do the color blind part anymore

 

I took mine yesterday; they did the color-blind test, the vision test, blood-pressure and the physical inside a room. No blood tests or anything like that.

 

That's funny because they gave me the color blind tests and they were harder than any I had done before. The numbers in the field were at odd angles to the page and I really had to stare to pick them out. Then they threw in some decoy pages with no number in them. Never seen that before! A trick question.

Birken

 

My wife and I are getting ready to take the DOT Physical for team otr. Will she be required to lift 75lbs? She's only 5' 2'' 125lbs.

 

FMCSR 391.41

 

Thanks!
She doesn't have any of those. A short fuse sometimes!

 

I think there might be an FMCSR reg covering that. 8)