United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2008-07-24 monographic deposited born digital 11 p. GA 1.13:GAO-08-1030T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T P0b002ee18039eff4 f:d081030t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T GAO-08-1030T Bus drivers Commercial motor vehicle operators Disabilities Disability benefits Drivers' licenses Eligibility determinations Federal regulations Federal/state relations Impaired motor vehicle operators Licenses Medical certification Medical examinations Medical records Motor vehicle safety Motor vehicle standards Motor vehicles Persons with disabilities Program evaluation Risk management Safety standards Social security benefits Standards evaluation Transportation industry Transportation safety Transportation workers Truck drivers Testimony A83048 Millions of drivers hold commercial driver licenses (CDL), allowing them to operate commercial vehicles. The Department of Transportation (DOT) established regulations requiring medical examiners to certify that these drivers are medically fit to operate their vehicles and provides oversight of their implementation. Little is known on the extent to which individuals with serious medical conditions hold CDLs. Because the effectiveness of the medical certification process is not known, this testimony, and the accompanying report (GAO-08-826) that GAO is releasing today focuses on (1) GAO's analyses of the magnitude of commercial drivers with serious medical conditions, and (2) examples of cases where careful medical examinations did not occur on commercial drivers with serious medical conditions. To examine the extent individuals holding CDLs have significant disabilities, GAO identified those who were in both DOT's CDL database and selected disability databases of Social Security Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and Departments of Veterans Affairs and Labor and have been identified as 100 percent disabled according to the program's criteria. GAO obtained current CDL data from 12 selected states. To provide case studies, GAO focused on 4 states--Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, and Virginia. For 15 drivers identified from data mining, GAO interviewed, as appropriate, the driver, the driver's employer and the driver's physician. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T.pdf GAO-08-1030T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-1030T Testimony GAO-08-1030T; Commercial Drivers: Certification Process for Drivers with Serious Medical Conditions; Bus drivers Commercial motor vehicle operators Disabilities Disability benefits Drivers' licenses Eligibility determinations Federal regulations Federal/state relations Impaired motor vehicle operators Licenses Medical certification Medical examinations Medical records Motor vehicle safety Motor vehicle standards Motor vehicles Persons with disabilities Program evaluation Risk management Safety standards Social security benefits Standards evaluation Transportation industry Transportation safety Transportation workers Truck drivers