When your CDL expires & you have to renew it do you have to take the permit test & endorsements tests all over again?
When you renew you just do an eye check and give them your DOT card, and of course your cash. This works with all the endorsements but hazmat. You have to re test and do the background thing at every renewal.
Hazmat he can't get right off the bat anyhow. He won't get the authorization for it until the background check comes back from TSA, and that could take 6-8 weeks.
All that gets you is a possible reduced cost for the TSA background check. You still have to go through the process to get hazmat.
