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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

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Originally Posted by Uturn2001

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Originally Posted by GMAN

I checked the FMCRA website and found that you can drive otr as long as the diabetes can be controlled by diet or pills. Apparently, they still will not allow you to driver otr if you are on insulin. I know there was some discussion, earlier this year, about allowing insulin depend drivers to go otr, but that must not have passed. I apologize for the mixup. Good luck with the physical.

Actually they will allow an insulin dependant diabetic to drive but they must be granted an excemption first from the regs and to get that excemption you have to jump through about 20 extra hoops, like be under the care of an endocrinoligist, have zero episodes of low blood sugar for 3 months, and so on.

The only good news is that they did away with the 2 years of driving on insulin requirement.

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.

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Originally Posted by ManLotr

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!
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Originally Posted by ManLotr

A short fuse sometimes!

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