DOT CDL Physical Requirements

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Department of Transportation Physical Requirements as outlined at www.fmcsa.dot.gov

Fed Reg 391.41

• No loss of foot, leg hand or arm.

• No impairment of hand or finger that interferes
  with power grasping or no impairment of arm, foot, leg that interferes with
  the ability to perform normal tasks of driving a motor vehicle.

• No history of diabetes that requires insulin for
  control.

• No current diagnosis of myocardial infarction,
  angina, pectoris, coronary insufficiency, thrombosis, or other cardio-vascular
  disease known to be accompanied by syncope, dyspnea, collapse or congestive
  heart failure.

• No history or diagnosis of respiratory
  dysfunction likely to interfere with the ability to control a motor vehicle.

• No current diagnosis of high blood pressure
  likely to interfere with driving a motor vehicle. (159/89 maximum)

• 
  No history or current diagnosis of rheumatic,
  orthopedic, muscular, neuromuscular, or vascular disease that interferes with
  the ability to control and operate a motor vehicle.

• No history or current diagnosis of epilepsy or
  any other condition that is likely to cause loss of consciousness.

• No mental, nervous, organic or functional
  disease of psychiatric disorder likely to interfere with operating a motor
  vehicle.

• Distant visual acuity of at least 20/40 in each
  eye, field of vision of at least 70 degrees and the ability to perceive red,
  yellow, green and amber.

• Ability to perceive a forced whisper in the
  better ear at no less than five feet, with or without use of a hearing aid.

• No use of a Schedule I drug, amphetamine,
  narcotic or any other habit forming drug.

• No current clinical diagnosis of alcoholism.