Texas medical card lapse-downgraded license

This is country wide since last year. I wish all of you would start writing your reps in DC to tell them to get this changed to allow one regulation to suspend the CDL and be able to reinstate it any time in the future without going through the entire CDL process because some states will make it a suspension without allowing a reinstatement in the future.

 

Does anyone disagree with this? My med card never expired. I just didn't sent the self certification form in. No I'm downgraded. Will I have to retest once I show my med card has always and is current?

 

Actually it's one piece of paper. A form that you swear to under oath and sign. Known as Tier one for full working CDL with a Medical card etc attached to it. AND active. (Valid.)

When I stopped trucking around 2009, I filled out a Tier two form to maintain my CDL A and all under grandfathered rules in my state. No medical card needed. With a set of very limited situations where I might be running a big rig (Such as the USA getting nuked and hauling dead bodies for example...) under Tier two.

If you need a new DOT medical, go get it and show the forms to the Revenuer at the DMV it should not be difficult to restore your class A CDL etc. under tier one. Which is what you want to swear to before being issued a full CDL so you can keep on trucking.

 

you are notified months in advance when your med card is due to expire. this is your livelihood. Same as your CDL.

1. dont do illegal crap (speeding is an example)

2. print out your mvr once or twice a year. make sure your CDL is valid.

3. Dont rely on anyone to send or submit any CDL or medical card info in. Do it yourself.

 

You can check your CDL status online at TXDPS.

 

Everyone agrees with the OP. Med cards expire. New forms HAVE to be submitted or you no longer have CDL status. Same goes with hazmat. Don't do your fingerprints. Find your entire license suspended.

It's been law of the land for a few years now. And it's up to YOU to make sure those things are done. Don't EVER let ANYONE say they'll do it for you. Too many members crying on here because they trusted someone else to do THEIR job for them. And now their license is downgraded.

I personally drive to the DLD and walk up to the counter

 

I tried mailing mine in “ once” and after a few weeks the stated they never received it.