DOT: Medical Examination Certification
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
According to their mission statement, the FMCSA is focused on all except:
A. Reducing Crashes
B. Reducing Injuries
C. Reducing Fatalities involv
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DOT: Medical Examination Certification
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
According to their mission statement, the FMCSA is focused on all except:
A. Reducing Crashes
B. Reducing Injuries
C. Reducing Fatalities involving large trucks & buses
D. Reducing the number of potential CDL candidates ✔✔D. Reducing the number of potential
CDL candidates
The organization responsible for providing the FMSCA with data about trends, costs, fatalities,
& injuries in large buss & trucks accidents is
A. NRCME
B. ART
C. FMSCA
D. DOT ✔✔B. ART
Office of Analysis, Research & Technology - Is under the umbrella of FMSCA
T/F: The Fed Motor Carrier Safety Admin guidelines do not specify the number of pounds a
driver must be able to lift. ✔✔T
Module 1
T/F: The CME may or may not choose to use the recommended guidelines. ✔✔T: However,
when the certification decision does not conform to the recommendations, the reasons for not
following the medical guidelines should be included in the documentation.
Module 1
Factoid:
The profile of the average truck or bus driver:
• Male.
• More than 40 years of age.
• Sedentary.
• Overweight.
• Smoker.
• Poor eating habits. ✔✔Module 1
49 CFR 391.41: Describes the physical qualification requirements for drivers. The 13 standards
are used to determine driver medical fitness for duty. Four of the
standards: vision, hearing, epilepsy, and diabetes mellitus have objective disqualifiers that do not
depend on medical examiner clinical interpretation. These standards are the "non-discretionary"
standards. For the other nine "discretionary" standards, the medical examiner makes a
clinical judgment in accordance with the physical qualification requirements for driver
certification. ✔✔Module 1
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