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If you have a HazMat Endorsement, read this! License renewal.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by tscottme, May 13, 2022.

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  1. May 17, 2022 #21
    WesternPlains

    WesternPlains Road Train Member

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    I discovered I had to have a new background check when renewing hazmat.
    Yes in my state. Renew or remove.
     
    WesternPlains, May 17, 2022
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  3. May 17, 2022 #22
    snowwy

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    Fingerprints (background) is every 5 years.

    Mine falls in the middle of my 5 year license.
     
    snowwy, May 17, 2022
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  4. May 17, 2022 #23
    kemosabi49

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    Here in Arkansas, our CDL is good for 4 years. If you have Hazmat, you have to renew it with your license. So fingerprints and background check every 4 years.
     
    kemosabi49, May 17, 2022
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  5. May 17, 2022 #24
    tscottme

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    Which state ?
     
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  7. May 18, 2022 #25
    mustang190

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    Why would anyone want to give up their Hazmat endorsement?
     
    mustang190, May 18, 2022
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  8. May 18, 2022 #26
    Dennixx

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    I'd keep it just for the TSA Precheck
     
    Dennixx, May 18, 2022
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  9. May 18, 2022 #27
    snowwy

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    Why keep something that comes with too much BS and never gets used?
     
    snowwy, May 18, 2022
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  10. May 18, 2022 #28
    tscottme

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    If you aren't kidding, If someone doesn't pull HazMat keeping a valid HM is more trouble than it is worth, for some drivers. If you have a HM endorsement and notice you never need it, and you want to just let it expire, and your CDL is from a state that cancels your CDL unless you walk in and exchange it for a non-HM CDL, you can get a big surprise. I'm just trying to warn people if this trap before it happens to them. A driver could only find out his CDL is canceled months after it is canceled and he's getting some random DOT inspection or some 4-wheeler or truck driver hits your truck and the police show up. I was NEVER notified by my state or TSA. My employer was notified by letter a few months BEFORE my HM expired. If it didn't happen to me, I would not believe it possible. The govt doesn't have to make sense, they do what they do.
     
    tscottme, May 18, 2022
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  11. May 18, 2022 #29
    striker

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    This is actually not new, in 2018 when I renewed mine, Colorado forgot to have me retake the HAZMAT test to retain it (despite me handing the clerk proof of my background check), 4 days later the state of Colorado suspended my drivers license, not just my CDL. I had no clue I was under suspension, fortunately I was doing Lyft on the weekends, their system caught the suspension and suspended my account and sent me a notice that my license was suspended.
     
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  12. May 27, 2022 #30
    Experienced Trucker

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    In CommunistFornia, you need to get TSA (aka Lockheed Martin) PERMISSION by paying them to do a Federal BG Check on U B4 U take the HM test, and when U pass your HM Renewal test @ the DMV, the DMV will send U ur new 5 yr. license with Hazmat on it.
     
    Experienced Trucker, May 27, 2022
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