FMCSA & FAQs

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Direct person to contact: 

• Email: 

                 Hearing Waiver Division
             FMCSAhearingexemptions@dot.gov

             (the application file has to be in PDF)

or

• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590 (W64-224)
  Main: 202 366-4001
  Fax: 877-764-6920
  9:00am-5:00 ET, M-F

• How can your CDL examiner communicate with you when you start the training and take a road test?
  •  Get a dry eraser board for your examiner to write down to tell you what to do and where to go.
  • Make sure you and your examiner feel comfortable before and during the road test. 
  • Or discuss what to do before start the exam.
• Hearing waiver cannot be used to drive a bus. 
• FMCSA Regulation #383.133 Test Method:
  • Interpreters are prohibited during the administration of skills tests (Pre-Trip and Road Exam). Applicants must be able to understand and respond to verbal commands and instructions in English by a skills test examiner. Neither the applicant nor the examiner may communicate in a language other than English during the skills test
• Cat Scale is a deaf friendly app to use for weigh paperwork.