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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...