A Department of Transportation (DOT) physical is a physical exam that is required of people who drive commercial vehicles. The point of a DOT physical is to make sure that people who are driving ...

Some drivers are truly not healthy enough to be behind the wheel. Their conditions could pose a deadly risk to themselves and others on the road. So it’s no surprise that doctors who don’t follow ...

This Opinion piece appears in the April 14 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. For most truckers, the U.S. Department of Transportation physical is just an inconvenience, ...

A notice issued Wednesday from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration alerted medical examiners that they are authorized to conduct DOT physicals on drivers whose CDLs have expired but are ...