DOT: Medical Examination Certification Questions and Answers 100% Pass

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DOT: Medical Examination Certification Questions and Answers 100% Pass According to their mission statement, the FMCSA is focused on all except: A. Reducing Crashes B. Reducing Injuries C. Reduci... ng Fatalities involving large trucks & buses D. Reducing the number of potential CDL candidates ✔✔D. Reducing the number of potential CDL candidates The organization responsible for providing the FMSCA with data about trends, costs, fatalities, & injuries in large buss & trucks accidents is A. NRCME B. ART C. FMSCA D. DOT ✔✔B. ART Office of Analysis, Research & Technology - Is under the umbrella of FMSCA T/F: The Fed Motor Carrier Safety Admin guidelines do not specify the number of pounds a driver must be able to lift. ✔✔T Module 1 T/F: The CME may or may not choose to use the recommended guidelines. ✔✔T: However, when the certification decision does not conform to the recommendations, the reasons for not following the medical guidelines should be included in the documentation. Module 1 Factoid: The profile of the average truck or bus driver: • Male. • More than 40 years of age. • Sedentary. • Overweight. • Smoker. • Poor eating habits. ✔✔Module 1 49 CFR 391.41: Describes the physical qualification requirements for drivers. The 13 standards are used to determine driver medical fitness for duty. Four of the standards: vision, hearing, epilepsy, and diabetes mellitus have objective disqualifiers that do not depend on medical examiner clinical interpretation. These standards are the "non-discretionary" standards. For the other nine "discretionary" standards, the medical examiner makes a clinical judgment in accordance with the physical qualification requirements for driver certification. ✔✔Module 1 [Show More]

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