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To comply with the new medical certification requirements, you must first
determine which type of commercial driving you do. Please follow the three steps
below.
Step 1:
Is your CDL used to operate a commercial motor vehicle in interstate
or intrastate commerce?
Interstate commerce is when you drive:
- From one state to another state or to a foreign country;
- Between two places within a state, but the route takes the vehicle
through another state or foreign country; or
- Between two places within a state, but your cargo came from or will be
delivered to another state or foreign country.
Intrastate commerce is when you drive a commercial motor vehicle only
within one state and you do not meet any of the descriptions above for
interstate commerce.
NOTE: If you operate in both intrastate commerce and interstate commerce,
you must choose interstate commerce.
Step 2:
Once you have determined whether you operate in interstate commerce or
intrastate commerce, you must decide whether your status is non-excepted
or excepted status.
Interstate Commerce -- Excepted or Non-excepted:
If the only type of commercial driving you do is one of the following
excepted activities, then you operate in excepted interstate commerce and
do not need to submit a federal medical examiner's certificate.
- Transporting school children and/or school staff between home and
school;
- Driving as a federal, state or local government employee;
- Transporting human corpses, or sick or injured persons;
- Operating a fire truck or rescue vehicle during emergencies and other
related activities;
- Primarily transporting propane winter heating fuel when responding to an
emergency condition requiring immediate response such as damage to a propane
gas system after a storm or flooding;
- Responding to a pipeline emergency condition requiring immediate
response such as a pipeline leak or rupture;
- Working in custom harvesting on a farm or to transport farm machinery
and supplies used in the custom harvesting operation to and from a farm or
to transport custom harvested crops to storage or market;
- Working as a beekeeper in the seasonal transportation of bees;
- Operating a vehicle controlled and operated by a farmer, but not a
combination vehicle (power unit and towed unit), that is used to transport
agricultural products, farm machinery or farm supplies, but not placardable
hazardous materials, to and from a farm and within 150 air miles of the
farm;
- Driving as a private motor carrier of passengers for nonbusiness
purposes; or
- Transporting migrant workers.
If your commercial driving does not include any of the activities listed
above, then you operate in non-excepted interstate commerce and are
required to provide a current medical examiner's certificate (49 CFR 391.45),
commonly referred to as a medical certificate or DOT card.
Most commercial drivers operating in interstate commerce are non-excepted
interstate commerce drivers.
If you operate in both excepted interstate commerce and non-excepted
interstate commerce, you must choose non-excepted interstate commerce.
Intrastate Commerce -- Excepted or Non-excepted:
You operate in excepted intrastate commerce when you drive a commercial
motor vehicle only in intrastate commerce activities that your state of
licensure has determined do not require you to meet the state's medical
certification requirements.
You operate in non-excepted intrastate commerce when you drive a
commercial motor vehicle only in intrastate commerce and are required to meet
your state of licensure's medical certification requirements.
If you operate in both excepted intrastate commerce and non-excepted
intrastate commerce, you must choose non-excepted intrastate commerce.
Step 3:
Provide the Secretary of State's Office with your self-certification of your
operating status. If you self-certify to non-excepted interstate on or
after Jan. 30, 2012, you must provide the Secretary of State's Office with an
original or a copy of your current medical examiner's certificate.
To complete the federal medical certification requirements, bring your documents
to any Michigan Secretary of State, fax them to 517-636-4359 or submit them
online at
www.Michigan.gov/CDL.
Medical examiner's certificates that are valid only with a waiver exemption or
skills performance evaluation certificates must be submitted in person at any
Secretary of State office. You can find a list of Secretary of State office
locations from the Branch
Office Locator.
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