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Mississippi CDL Requirements
All CDL drivers in the State of Mississippi are required 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.
Submitting your Medical Certificate to Mississippi Department of Public Safety
In Person:
Submit your valid DOT medical card, original. (Only the medical card, not the long form.)
Currently Mississippi will not accept mailed in, faxed, or emailed copies of a medical card.
Online: (Information updated October 2014)
You may now submit your new medical card information online at this link Mississippi DPS CDL Medical Card Submission.
Other Information:
Mississippi DPS – Commercial Operator License
Phone: 601-987-1334
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.
Until that system is completed, which compliance date according FMCSA is June 23, 2025, 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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In Mississippi if you drive for a city municipality you don’t need a med card. But if you still work and drive a contractor that works for a city is a med card still needed? Driving within the city and the trucks are non dot listed and have gov tags
Yes, driving for a contractor is driving for commercial purposes and you need a medical card.
I have completed my physical and have paper work but I was called into work. Could my wife take paper work to dmv and it be acceptable?
@Michael
Yes.
When your Health card is taken away for any reason how long of a grace period do you have to get your cdl back when you are able to get health card back
@Jimmy
You need to check with your local drivers license department. Each state treats this process in their own way.
My dot physical went out on 4/22 of this year so last year I went ahead and renewed it in Ark (where I work) on 5.13 and I took it to the dmv maybe 3 days after getting a new one and I applied for a new job and I’m told I no longer have a CDL because my medical card was out of date can someone help pls
@tre
You need to talk to your state drivers license department to get your CDL reinstated.
I have a Class A CDL and it doesn’t expire until June 2018. I had my DOT physical done and entered into the system last year. My DOT physical card expires June 2018 also but don’t I have to have and submit a new DOT physical card annually????
@Darryl
No. Your DOT physical card may be valid for up to 2 years from date of issue if you are medically qualified. If it expires June 2018, then that’s when you need to have a new DOT physical.
Am thinking about moving to Gulfport, ms.can I drive with a defibrillator intrastate
Can I drive or not cmv with a defibrillator.Thank You
@Terry
Class A – No. Other classes, and intrastate only – check with your state DLD.
I got Class A CDL I got a defibrillator put in 2016 and never had no problems with it am in TN. They pass a law in 2017 I can drive just intrastate but am moving to MS. As MS.pass any laws where you can drive intrastate with a defibrillator do you know if you can drive local.ThankYou
@ Terry M
As long as you are driving intra-state only you should not have any issues. But confirm that with the state drivers license department in MS.
Are there certain requirements in Mississippi for sleep apnea testing?
@Linda
No. To understand the issues surrounding this subject see these articles on sleep apnea screening.
Trucker Docs, where in the msdot regulations does it say when you change companies that you have to go back to ms and recertify your physical card. I’m from ms and have a ms CDL and recently changed from companies and am shut down in Michigan. I’ve been reading fmscr and there is nothing stating just because change of companies constitutes recertifying even though I’m still good until October 2016.
@Beth
There is no such regulation, someone is just misunderstanding the guidelines.
Is a 26 passenger church bus driver exempted from having a Medical Examiner’s Certificate?
@James
Most likely not exempted.
Here are the Mississippi DPS regulations. If you need more information call DPS at 601-987-1334.