Tag: dot-physicals

Business

Broader search functionality returns to FMCSA’s National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners

The return of the more extensive search options comes amid the agency’s work to restore the NRCME website after it was taken offline by FMCSA in December after an unidentified source tried to plant malicious software (malware) in the system. Drivers can search via an examiner’s registry number, by name of examiner and business and via zip code.

June 29, 2018

Regulations

Examiners fear bogus driver med cards could stem from FMCSA hack

FMCSA said earlier this month “there appears to be no evidence” of drivers’ or examiners’ information being stolen. But if any information regarding examiners was stolen, specifically their license number, there could be potential for bogus medical certificates to be issued, according to interviews with several DOT-certified medical examiners.

January 29, 2018

Business

Drivers’ info appears safe, FMCSA says, after hack of medical examiner registry

“There was no evidence of exposure of the personal information of drivers, medical examiners or motor carrier operators,” the agency said in a statement to Overdrive on Tuesday about the hack of the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners.

January 9, 2018

Business

Sleep apnea: Problems with one-year medical certification

The Medical Review Board’s preliminary apnea recommendations would enshrine a practice that’s increasingly common with truckers being treated successfully for sleep apnea: a one-year medical certification.

October 20, 2016

Business

Debatable accuracy of hard-fast sleep-apnea screening protocol

Overdrive research suggests that false-positive and -negative screening for apnea has been the case for more than a third of readers who’ve experienced the screening.

October 19, 2016

Business

Apnea’s wakeup call: Survey results show growing testing incidence, potential impacts of new protocol

A new Overdrive analysis suggests at least one in four owner-operators would be screened for sleep apnea testing under proposed guidelines.

October 18, 2016

Channel 19

Would you be referred for apnea testing under recent preliminary screening criteria?

Would you fall under the Medical Review Board’s recent preliminary screening recommendations for criteria to refer drivers for sleep apnea testing during DOT physicals? Take this survey to find out.

September 16, 2016

Business

FMCSA removes New York chiropractors from trucker medical examiner registry

The New York State Board of Chiropractic notified the doctors in September 2015 that under their authorized scope of practice, chiropractors licensed in New York weren’t authorized to conduct DOT physicals.

June 3, 2016

Channel 19

Sleep apnea twilight zone in California: The strange trials of Greg Price

Price’s story illustrates that when faced with a bureaucratic mistake, followed quite clearly by bureaucratic insolence, persistence for what is right and correct and true can ultimately win the day.

July 23, 2015

Channel 19

When airline pilots sound like, well, highway pilots

With French media reporting apparent location of the second “black box” from the GermanWings flight, a note about some reporting that rung some familiar bells on the line between profit, safety.

April 2, 2015

Voices

Does FMCSA’s medical card verification program violate HIPAA?

Short answer: Probably not. Here find a roundup of viewpoints from readers on this and other issues surrounding FMCSA’s new medical card-verification policy.

November 23, 2012

Channel 19

Turkey day dispatch: More docs with CDLs needed?

“We need more thanks paid to the nation’s drivers for the jobs you do day-in day-out. Clearly there’s a dearth of it in many quarters.”

November 22, 2012