Hazmat test

All you have to do is the read the hazmat book from your state DOT, the test is not the hard.

Mark

 

well you need to know what hazardous materials are. you need to know how to placard your trailer. you have to make sure that the paper work for the load is filled out correctly. when you leave the truck for any reason the paper has to be on the driver's seat, or in the drivers door boot. you're going to have to know what to do if (GOD forbid) you have an accident. you cannot drive your truck in a tunnel, nor park 300 ft. near said tunnel or bridge. you have to know the classes & divisions of hazardous materials. if you haul a partial load of HM you must placard your trailer. when you park, it has to be in a safe place & you have to keep an eye on it. i would suggest that you study the motor carriers manuel until you know by heart.

 

if you have any more questions, i'll try to answer them. the test wasn't hard. just common sense questions.

 

Here ya go...Crist CDL's Practice Exams - Free Online CDL Practice Exams...This is just to help in test...all answers are here....but make sure you study the book for your and our safety...lol..Good luck!

 

its always good to read the book, but theres a ton of info in the book on hazmat and only about 10% of it is on the test

a driver at work told me about this site.........its very good, it gives practice questions that are actually on the hazmat test and tells you what answers you got wrong....i practiced with it for about a half hour then went and passed the haz mat test with no problem

http://www.cristcdl.com/otc/hm/

 

Yeah, I agree. Not sure how other states test work, but in Pa you can skip questions if need be and come back to them. Really though, it's a piece of cake.

I load, unload, and pull Hazmat just about every night and have to laugh about how little the test has to do with real word Hazmat handling. The information is in the book, but you won't be asked the tougher questions on the test like if you have 400 lbs of 4.3, 3000 lbs of 2.2, and 1800 lbs of corrosive (8) what placards would you need?

The other thing you'll find when you start pulling a lot of Hazmat is how overly complex and stupid some of the laws are. For instance I could pull a pup with 40 drums full of class 3 or 8 equaling about 20,000 lbs of Hazmat through the tunnels of the Pa pike - if I have one empty tote that last contained Hazmat and weighs 100 lbs since there is now no Hazmat liquid in it, I would have to go around the tunnel since it's considered bulk packaging and has an ID number. Once it's determined that I have to go around the tunnel, could they have possibly built a more dangerous road to route me on? I have a hunch that a Hazmat incident would be statistically much more likely on the Ho-Chi-Min trail during the middle of a snowstorm than it would be in the tunnel which is free of snow.

OK, I'm done now. It's just so stupid if you ask me. So am I for placing a smiley face where I wanted an 8 - I can't seem to edit the smiley face out. It's similar to the Hazmat regulations - it makes no sense.

 

Yup, the hazmat laws are stupid..... until you have an incident. Until you work with them steady and spend time in and around chemical plants you really have no appreciation of how deadly even relatively minute amounts can be when accidentally mixed with the wrong chemical.

Back in "the day" I saw the results of an idiot loading cases of household bleach on top of a bunch of lead-acid car batteries; forklift punctured a case of bleach. Killed 2 people in the trailer.

Might help to remember that placards are mainly for First Responders in case of a wreck.

 

I'm thinking about getting my hazardous materials indorcenent too.

 

LMAO i thought that smiley looked out of place