34 Pa. Code § 31.21 - Qualifications of operators

(a) General. Any motor carrier, and its officers, agents, representatives and employes who drive motor vehicles or are responsible for the hiring, supervision, training, assignment, or dispatching of drivers shall comply and be conversant with the requirements of this section.

(b) Physical qualifications. No person may drive, nor shall any motor carrier require or permit any person to drive, any motor vehicle unless the person possesses the following minimum qualifications:

(1) No loss of foot, leg, hand or arm.

(2) No mental, nervous, organic or functional disease, which may interfere with safe driving.

(3) No structural defect or limitation, which may interfere with safe driving.

(4) The following eyesight requirements:

(i) Visual acuity of at least 20/40 (Sneller) in each eye either without lenses or by correction with lenses.

(ii) Form field of vision in the horizontal meridian of not less than 140°.

(iii) Ability to distinguish red, green and yellow colors.

(iv) Prescription lenses at all times when driving if drivers require correction by lens.

(5) Hearing capacity of not less than 10/20 in the better ear, for conversational tones, without a hearing aid.

(6) No addiction to the use of narcotics or other habit forming drugs, or the excessive use of alcoholic beverages or liquors.

(c) Physical examination. No person may drive nor shall any motor carrier require or permit any person to drive any motor vehicle unless within the immediately preceding 36 month period the person was physically examined and certified in accordance with the requirements of subsection (d) by a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy.

(d) Certificate. Any motor carrier which employs or uses any driver shall have in its files at its principal place of business a legible certificate, or a legible photographically reproduced copy of it, of a licensed doctor of medicine or osteopathy based on a physical examination as required by subsection (c). A driver employed by the motor carrier shall have in his possession a certificate, or a photographically reproduced copy of it, covering himself.

(e) Form and content of certificate. A certificate of physical examination shall be as follows

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34 Pa. Code § 31.21