Has anyone ever heard of having to take the skills test with a tanker trailer?

For Hazmat, you do have to take ELDT training from a registered provider. It's separate from the ELDT training to get the CDL and can be done online. If you get on with Schneider, they provide the course free of charge to all drivers.

 

Will do glad, and I could help. The course you took for the hazmat, if it was not ELDT certified DPS will NOT accept it and will not allow you to take the exam. Our ELDT hazmat will only be 4 hours. I bet you took a test prep course to help you pass the exam and not the ELDT. A test prep course will ofc help you, but you are required to take the ELDT class. If you go to a carrier for your school, they will likely have it there incorporated into your regular ELDT training if they haul HME. I am taking it just in case I want to switch up what I do so I can take HME down the road if I need it. Have you started looking at megas for your schooling yet? There are some good resources on here to help you look and plenty of drivers to tell you where they went and how it was.

 

I stand corrected sir, well done.

 

MD let me add Tanker endorsement test to the other tests I had to take anyway for my CLP. I do have the "X" empty tanker restriction now though

 

It definitely varies by state. I've seen people in other states report being able to add just about all the endorsements to the CLP. Texas likes to do things backwards, like taking the hazmat test at the DMV before the fingerprints and background check. Most other states is background before DMV test.