What you said makes sense, the safety aspect of it especially. I think what prompted me to post about it, was I literally knew nothing of this prior to.
NYS is the last point of contact, yet its federally mandated, I've heard nothing from them, but am not ignorant either if the FMCSA had put a bulletin out or somehow made it known, directly from them, or through the state, no problem at all. I renewed in July 2009, and at the time to renew, all that was required was the D.O.T. physical, and to present the card to the DMV agent when renewing which I did, after passing the examination with no problems, just passed another one in January 2013 with no problems. I did mistakenly believe the medical examiners card was valid for 3 years, its only 2. So in that case I let it expire even beyond that a year or so. I don't drive much lately, not the biggest fan of driving either but that can change if someone is in a jam, or what have you, I am ready to help, thats more important to me, than anything else.
With this new law or requirement, in my case for example, it prompts me to classify and certify the type of driving, which is interstate as I have hauled with a tractor trailer, not for hire though, horses to nearby Vermont. The other driving was the tandem Mack with the sileage/grain body, hauling for my long time, now ailing health, friend and farmer. So in essence, this makes people clean up their act, and insures the physical requirements are met, or action is taken.
Just caught me by surprise, though I knew my med card was expired, I did make sure to get examined and get current, now I had best not forget and make sure to record the deadline, so its done well in advance, like you said don't wait until the last minute or its on you, and I've experienced how that can go when it was no fault of my own, police, courts what have you do not care, either meet the requirements or deal with the consequences.
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