Do you need tanker endorsement to haul totes full of liquid?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by JC1971, Mar 24, 2022.

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    JC1971 Road Train Member

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    Don't need Hazmat. Not a Hazmat load.

    Been doing the practice tests online. Seems to be extremely easy. Should have gotten it already awhile ago.
     
    JC1971, Mar 25, 2022
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    well goodluck with the test if thats the direction you are going. this industry needs more guys like you that take initiative like you have. at least tell the boss he owes you a steak dinner, for you getting them out of a jam before it happend
     
    D.Tibbitt, Mar 25, 2022
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    Better question would be why is your carrier sending you to get a tanker endorsed load you don't have a tanker endorsement.
     
    Kenworth6969, Mar 25, 2022
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    typical dispatch, are you surprised?
     
    D.Tibbitt, Mar 25, 2022
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    I had a dispatcher try to starve me miles… while I was on salary.
     
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    Yes I am, they are supposed to know these obvious things. If not when they pull up a driver in the system is should show their endorsements.
     
    Kenworth6969, Mar 25, 2022
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    I'd ask for a repower.
     
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    I would just deliver and forget.
    Just saying.
     
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    i had that happen years ago.... as in about a week after they changed it to require tanker (I didn't have tanker) the shipper had the same product in tots and drums. I asked which they were going to load, they said tots, i said I con't take it because I didn't have tanker, I called dispatch and told them the same thing.. I made them call safety who told him I was right then he asked how I knew it change.....IT'S MY JOB to know what I can and can't pull.
     
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    Last time I hauled totes. I didn't even know about the endorsement till this forum. Not that it mattered. I got all my endorsements when I got my cdl.

    Haz wasn't the PITA back then. Just pay the extra $5 per endorsement.
     
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