National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners

How do trucking medical examiners stay certified?

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently notified the trucking industry that it has put in place requirements for medical examiners that want to maintain certification allowing them to conduct physical examinations for truck drivers.

In a notice published in the Federal Register on Jan. 11, FMCSA announced that all medical examiners certified and listed on the agency’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (National Registry) must maintain their certification by...

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FMCSA updates guidance for truck driver medical examiners

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For the first time in seven years, physicians have reliable guidance they can use to help determine if commercial truck drivers are physically fit to operate their vehicles.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Tuesday published a draft of its new Medical Examiner’s Handbook (MEH). The handbook provides information on driver health requirements and guidelines used by medical examiners (MEs) listed on FMCSA’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners to interpret regulations...

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FMCSA wants missing driver exam results by Sept. 30

An estimated 14,000 medical examiners have less than two months to submit the results of truck driver physical qualification exams conducted during a nine-month database outage three years ago.

In a notice scheduled to be posted on Monday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration stated that “upload functionality” into the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (MEs) was fully restored on Aug. 13, 2018. “FMCSA is aware that while many MEs have submitted results of examinations...

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IT snags could mean more medical card headaches for drivers, carriers

Drivers and their employers will be responsible until June 2025 for ensuring medical certifications are properly registered so that state and federal regulators will have enough time to work through IT problems that are holding up a more streamlined compliance system.

In a proposed rulemaking scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is looking to extend the final rule for its Medical Examiner’s Certification...

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780,000 driver medical exams could be missing from FMCSA database

A seven-month outage of a medical examiner registry maintained by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has resulted in approximately 780,000 driver examinations potentially missing from the database, a federal watchdog has revealed.

An audit report of the FMCSA’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) also found that 46% of the registry’s 70,208 records of certified medical...

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5 New Year’s resolutions to reduce your fleet risk in 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration issue a series of rules exemptions in 2020, but at no point was the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles affected. As 2021 quickly approaches, and with the possible end of the pandemic in sight as vaccines reach the market, trucking carriers could see a return to normal operations at some point.

Safety, though, remains the primary objective for all operations. As waivers to existing rules expire, and new regulations...

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