Herc Rentals? Why do I need an X endorsement?

The company I drive for , we do a lot for rental companies.
It's not bad , I usually do store to store transfers. One of my best friends started working for Herc dirt then moved to Herc production doing movie stuff. He has since joined the union and is working for Picture cars company and doing quite well. Any of the rental work is a young man's job , Herc seems to be a little more fast paced than some. It's a good place to work in my opinion.

 

No. Empty fuel tote still needs a hazmat, unless it has been purged and clean with proper paperwork provided.

 

Not Herc but a local equipment place rents out tankers for calcium chloride and also has a tanker for filling pools.

With the proliferation of directional drilling fibre-optic nowadays many places need mud trucks. Not sure if they are rented out but they're everywhere here right now. Every drill rig needs a mud truck. Even small ops are running up to 5 drills everyday trying to get those infrastructure contracts. That's 5 trucks, often with 2 big water tanks on them. The rental industry probably has taken notice to that.

 

What’s the size threshold for it needing to be placards?

 

Any tote tank / ICB 119 gallons or greater require bulk placards full or empty unless it's been cleaned.

• Bulk vs. Non-Bulk:
  In hazardous materials transportation, "bulk" refers to containers exceeding specific volume or weight thresholds. For liquids, this threshold is 119 gallons.

 

At united rentals we ran water trucks that required a tanker endorsement. depending on the division you could be hauling large fuel tanks or larger water trailers

 

Never heard of anyone having to take a road test to get a tanker endorsement. Is that new? I just did a test on the computer.

 

Probably a typo. I got my tanker endorsement 10 month ago or so. Same thing, computer test with 24 questions or so.

 

Well, when I got mine, in 1991, when the CDL requirements first came out, they had stipulated, unless you had experience driving that type of vehicle and could document the employment covering it, they would make you drive a 'like' vehicle to get the endorsement, so in essence, I grandfathered my experiences, but that seems to have changed. I remember it specifically, because I had to provide the employers and equipment that I drove at those places, to be able to take the written tests, and waive the driving tests for those vehicles, like tankers. This seems to have changed since 1991, apparently, when I got the first CDL and passed all the endorsement written tests. I didn't want to have to pay to test drive all those vehicles, so I guess it did change.

However, a company may have you drive that vehicle for the test, if you don't already have it. With those vehicles for the tests, the vehicle inspection part becomes dependent on the vehicle driven. Another stipulation back then, is that the employer had to attest to your driving those vehicles....that's why that particular aspect stuck in my head.

 

I would expect a tanker company to give you a road test pulling a tanker.