# Qualifications of Drivers; Vision Standard
> **Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration** · Final rule. · Published 2022-01-21 · Effective 2022-03-22 · 87 FR 3390
## Document
- **Document number:** 2022-01021
- **Category:** motor-carrier
- **Sub-agency:** Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 87 FR 3390
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 391
- **Publication date:** 2022-01-21
- **Effective date:** 2022-03-22
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FMCSA-2019-0049
## Abstract

FMCSA amends its regulations to permit individuals who do not satisfy, with the worse eye, either the existing distant visual acuity standard with corrective lenses or the field of vision standard, or both, to be physically qualified to operate a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in interstate commerce under specified conditions. Currently, such individuals are prohibited from driving CMVs in interstate commerce unless they obtain an exemption from FMCSA. The new alternative vision standard replaces the current vision exemption program as the basis for determining the physical qualification of these individuals.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/21/2022-01021/qualifications-of-drivers-vision-standard)
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