Renewing medical card

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  1. Sixela918

    Sixela918 Light Load Member

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    My 2 yr card is up in 4 months. What is the process to renew and update with DOT? I've seen "self certify" alot. What does that mean? Sorry for the double post. Not sure how that happened.
     
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  3. Bean Jr.

    Bean Jr. Road Train Member

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    The requirement is the same for every state, but the procedure may be different. In Illinois, you go to the Secretary of State office and they will have you fill out the form stating you are non-excepted. They will copy your card, scan it and give you a receipt that you turned in your card. Other states may allow you to fax it in.

    The self certification is when you don't have a card, you certify as being excepted, that is intrastate exempt from needing a medical card. You can not drive interstate, but you keep your license from being downgraded from a CDL.
     
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  4. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    go to a doctor and get a dot physical, here in Ca we can turn it into the DMV via internet although I reccomend taking it to a DMV Office, keep and carry a copy of it with you, including the long form.
     
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    Sixela918 Light Load Member

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    I got my first dot physical in AZ. Do I have to get the next one in AZ also?
     
  6. Powder Joints

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    No you can get it in any state its a federal thing, but if your license is AZ you will have to turn it into AZ, maybe online dont know.
     
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  7. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    yes in az you can submit dot medical card renewal online.. not sure about if you are self certifying tho to be exempt from medical card.. theres a DMV in avondale az that does nothing but CDL stuff and they have a counter there that is strictly for medical cards.. may want to stop in and ask them.
     
  8. Sixela918

    Sixela918 Light Load Member

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    Yeah that's the office I've always dealt with. Next question : is there any benefit to doing the exam this far ahead of the expiration?
     
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  9. Powder Joints

    Powder Joints Subjective Prognosticator

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    Nope, you just loose, then next card will be from 2 years of the issue date,, you just loose the couple of months
     
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    theres no penslty for being late as long as you dont get pulled over.. As soon as you turn in your new card your class a becomes a class a again.
     
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  11. D.Tibbitt

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    no benefit really. i usually do mine a month or 2 before its due because it takes a couple weeks for the paperwork to get thru the sytem
     
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