Trucking news and briefs for Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024:
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is proposing to remove medical examiners (MEs) from its National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners who have failed to access their National Registry account using login.gov and update the profile information in their account as required.
Since June 2018, by using the email, physical address and telephone number these MEs provided to FMCSA in their National Registry account, the agency has attempted to notify them of the requirement to access their account using login.gov.
There are approximately 15,727 examiners in the registry of docs and other examiners who perform or performed DOT physicals who have not accessed their National Registry account using login.gov. As a result, those examiners are not able to fulfill regulatory requirements, such as reporting results of DOT physicals performed on drivers, receiving FMCSA communications, and completing required training.
[Related: Action required: Updates to FMCSA account logins coming]
MEs who are removed from the National Registry will no longer be certified to perform DOT physicals of truckers. To avoid being removed from the National Registry, MEs to whom this notice applies must complete certain corrective actions within 30 days of the notice being published on Wednesday, Jan. 24. MEs who are subject to the notice must create a login.gov account and correct all outdated contact information in their profiles.
Examiners who do not complete this process within 30 days will be removed from the National Registry.
