No down sifting while testing in a Hazmat truck?

Yeah, since you have to wait for the background check, you'd never get a new cdl with hazmat on it. I tested out for it when I got mine but didn't go back and get it. Just got my cdl. They didn't do anything on the road test related to it.

I guess the guy thinks he has to drive around in top gear all the time. I'd like to see him try it.

 

Most companies will retrain you if your hauling a dedicated hazmat load. As company policy about handling and reporting of hazmat concerns will vary.

Frankly being over weight and no work my endorsement is going to slide this year.

 

For Hazmat you don't have to stop at all RR crossings. If the crossing is control by a strret signal then you need to slow down look both ways and go on. You do need to stop at spur tracks either.Again slow down and look both ways. Do not shift while your tractor is on the tracks. And if you do stop be sure you're behind the white line that crosses in front of you, that should apply at all stops.

 

That must be something new...I had every endorsement on my permit, including hazmat...but then that was also before the TSA BS.

I don't think there is anything which would prohibit a person from going through with the required background check and receiving the TSA letter in anticipation of heading off to CDL school, so that they could get the HazMat endorsement right away...in which case, if they took the written test at the same time as all of the other written tests, it would be listed on their permit.

 

Don't know about other states but in IL if you shift on RR tracks at all (regardless of hazmat) you fail your road test automatically. I know this happened to a CR England driver before me. The tracks you cross are after a stop sign and run diagonal across a 4 way intersection. He failed to check both mirrors and failed for shifting while one side of his truck was still on the tracks. IL will even fail you for shifting in an intersection as that is illegal under state law there.

 

Texas Will Too

 

Coluld you please give us a reference?

 

Driver, use your common sense... it is BS.

 

It's BS. You will fail if you do not downshift. Taking the truck out of gear and traveling over 100 feet in neutral is a point in Missouri. They count it as not being in control of the vehicle.