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Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association<\/strong><\/h5>\n

1 OOIDA Drive, Grain Valley, MO\u00a0 64029<\/strong>
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Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Norita Taylor,\u00a0norita_taylor@ooida.com<\/a>
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For Immediate Release<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Truckers say government needs to fix medical certification issues and conflict resolutions<\/h3>\n

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the nation\u2019s only organization exclusively representing professional and small-business truckers, says that the government needs to create a better system for those seeking to resolve conflicts involving their medical certifications, which are required to get a commercial drivers license.<\/p>\n

By way of public comments, OOIDA submitted its concerns to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration\u2019s proposed information collection request regarding the Medical Qualification Requirements, or the \u201cResolution of Medical Conflict\u201d provision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis program is supposed to resolve medical conflicts but it simply doesn\u2019t work,\u201d said Lewie Pugh, vice president of OOIDA. \u201cRather than just complaining about it, we continue to provide FMCSA with reasonable solutions to make the program more timely and effective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Resolution of Medical Conflict provision provides a mechanism for drivers and motor carriers to request that FMCSA make a final decision to resolve conflicting medical evaluations when either party does not accept the decision of a medical specialist. If two medical examiners disagree about the certification of a driver, the requirements set forth in 49 CFR 391.47 mandate that the driver or motor carrier submit a copy of a report including results of all medical testing and the opinion of an impartial medical specialist in the field in which the medical conflict arose.<\/p>\n

These situations typically involve a Certified Medical Examiner who is requiring expensive testing while basing their justification upon a cursory \u201cexamination\u201d which may include no further evidence than the visual observation that the driver has what they consider to be a \u201clarge neck.\u201d The existing provision is only constructed to intervene in a conflict between the physician for the driver and the physician for the motor carrier concerning the driver’s qualifications. The process also requires that once an application is submitted, the driver is disqualified until \u201cthe Director\u2026makes a determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis completely removes any incentive to utilize this program, given the driver will immediately lose their ability to earn an income,\u201d said Pugh. \u201cWe encourage the FMCSA to incorporate our suggested changes so that a driver may continue working while the resolution is being reviewed and adjudicated.\u201d<\/p>\n

OOIDA also recommended that all decisions be made within a 90-day time period instead of the unlimited review window currently in place and that the agency should do more to protect and evaluate second opinions.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, the agency has no way to determine which exam is the second opinion,\u201d said Pugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, the nation\u2019s only organization exclusively representing professional and small-business truckers, says that the government needs to create a better system for those seeking to resolve conflicts involving their medical certifications, which are required to get a commercial drivers license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[76,63,240,241],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTruckers say government needs to fix medical certification issues and conflict resolutions - OOIDA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ooida.com\/2018\/truckers-say-government-needs-to-fix-medical-certification-issues-and-conflict-resolutions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Truckers say government needs to fix medical certification issues and conflict resolutions - 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