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Alaska CDL Requirements
Alaska law requires all CDL drivers to have a valid DOT medical card, unless the type of commerce you drive qualifies as ‘Excepted’.
Interstate Non-Excepted
You must meet the Federal DOT medical certificate requirements.
Intrastate Non-Excepted
You must meet the Federal DOT medical certificate requirements.
CDL Medical and Self Certifying Verification
If you are applying for an original, duplicate or renewal of your Commercial Driver License (CDL), please take all required forms to your local DMV.
If your CDL is current, you may submit the Self Certification Form and Medical Card in the following manner —
Submit the following two documents:
- Medical and Self Certifying Verification – Form 413 – download the form here from Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles.
- Copy of your valid Medical Examiner’s Certificate (Medical card only, not the long form.) Enlarge the copy to ensure that all information is legible.
By Mail:
Anchorage Driver Licensing – Medical
1300 W. Benson Blvd, Suite 100
Anchorage, AK 99503-3689
By Email:
doa.dmv.adl@alaska.gov
Use PDF format only. In your email, please include a good contact number to reach you.
In Person:
At your local DMV Office.
Note:
DMV cannot accept faxed copies.
Your DMV record will be updated with your current medical information within 10 calendar days from the date of receipt.
Other Contact Information:
Website: http://doa.alaska.gov/dmv/
Questions on the self certification process — Phone: 907-269-3770
Special Information Updates Pertaining To ALL STATES
MEDICAL EXAMINERS MUST CONTINUE TO ISSUE MEDICAL CERTIFICATES TO ALL DRIVERS
The FMCSA has requested that all medical examiners continue providing drivers with a paper copy of the Medical Examiner’s Certificate – Form MCSA-5876, so that Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) holders can provide a copy to the State licensing agency, and the non-CDL drivers can provide the documentation to their employers and Federal and State enforcement officials.
The Agency is currently completing efforts to put into place an electronic system to enable medical examiners to transmit the medical certificate information from the National Registry system to the State licensing agencies. However, until that system is completed, medical examiners must continue to issue paper copies of the medical certificates to drivers who pass the medical exam.
ALL DRIVERS MUST CONTINUE TO CARRY A PAPER COPY OF THEIR MEDICAL CERTIFICATE
Commercial Drivers – You still need to carry a paper copy of your medical card, until FMCSA announces that this is no longer necessary.
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updated 11/13/18
What form does the physician need to complete?
@ MaryAnn
The FMCSA forms. He/she should have them in the office.
If my blood pressure is fine and I have no signs of anything else just because I am obese for my height does a physician have the right to draw my blood for a dot medical examiners card to chk for diabetes, thyroid etc…
@Christina
The job of the Certified Medical Examiner (CME), is to determine “Medical fitness for duty” to operate a commercial motor vehicle, that’s all.
He isn’t supposed to make any other diagnosis or treatment protocol calls. So unless there was some special circumstances that presented during your medical examination that prompted him to draw blood, he may be over-stepping his boundaries as a CME for the DOT.
I do not know the laws in Alaska, there may be some reason for such activity that I am unaware of.