SPECIALIST / EXEMPTION PATH
The checker reads your verdict. The Kit gets you through the exam: documentation packets for your condition, the two 45-day form clocks run as a calendar, the official medication form packet, waiting-period calendars, failure recovery, and the examiner phone script.
Federal source: FMCSA Medical Examiner's Handbook 2024, Neurology · Rules checked October 2026
Advisory criteria grade the wait by injury severity and by whether seizures followed: mild injuries without seizures carry the shortest suggested waits (months class), while severe injuries — prolonged unconsciousness, penetrating injury, or post-traumatic seizures — carry multi-year suggested waits (up to the 5-year class) with full neurological evaluation before certification.
There is no single TBI number, and any page that gives you one is guessing. Severity, seizures, and current function — documented by neurology — decide it.
Bring the hospital records (severity measures, imaging), neurology follow-up documenting current function and seizure status, and medication history.
This question is decided by the federal text together with its published advisory criteria — clocks, thresholds, and specialist files. The verdict above follows the cited criteria; your documentation is what proves you meet them.
Only a certified medical examiner on the National Registry can certify you. FreightVerdict reads the published federal standards — it does not certify, diagnose, or treat, and nothing here is medical advice.
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