FMCSA Panel Moves Forward With Plan To Update Medical Examiners Handbook

The FMCSA has almost finished updating the Medical Examiners Handbook. The rewrite will offer the agency’s suggested “best medical practices” for the more than 50,000 certified medical examiners who evaluate complex medical conditions of drivers and is ultimately aimed at keeping unhealthy drivers off the road and ensuring that drivers who mind their health remain behind the wheel.  For more information, see Transport Topics, “FMCSA Panel Takes Steps to Revise Obsolete Medical Examiners Handbook​​,” by Staff Reporter Eric Miller, Week of July 15, 2019.