Hazmat Endorsement/Background check

HAZMAT Endorsement

Finger Printing happens at any of 100 sites around the USA under Uncle Sam's locations.

EXCEPT for these states....

Drivers from any of the participating agent states can be printed at any of the agent’s sites — even those in another state. (Please note that the following states are NOT participating agent states: Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin).

Hazardous Materials Endorsement (HME)

Federal Enrollment site. TWIC, HME and a variety of other things.

Universal Enrollment Services (UES)

I'm personally HAPPY i GTFO out of Hazmat after 20 years. I still keep up with it however.

 

Well.

9-11 changed alot of things pernamently. I never imagined that day would brought about a eventual destruction of my desire to hold Hazmat (I have a few posts about that subject personally and why I got rid of it.)

I absolutely enjoyed hauling Hazmat. It was beautiful as far as I was concerned. Most people run the other way, I ran to it.

This is not a play thing.

Uncle Sam is determined as you can see from these hoops one must jump through to renew, keep, get, apply for or anything at all to Hazmat because it's so easy for a terrorist nut job to grab a 18 wheeler of say Propane and take it on into the US Capitol and use a few pounds of C4 as a percusor and breach the trailer vessal container to create the necessary reduction in pressure to really bomb things out.

It is just as easy to prevent such a attack by these nut Jobs when Uncle Sam built barriers and has a team surveying incoming 18 wheelers such as my own in the past. ive been blocks from there and it's NOT fun. There are just too many hard men with guns too interested in why I am even there if it's not related to the US Mint Location. and all they also have to do is keep the capitol grounds sprinkers going 24/7. Wet all those acres of grass so that any incoming tanker attacker will simply sink to the hubcaps and fail to get up the hill to the facility.

Hazmat at one time was profitable, fun to me and frankly met what I thought to be a serious, adult, professional activity in which you have to know your #### to be allowed to get it done without the heaps of BS, disrespect or being bothered by stupid people trying to get a few dollars to lump your trailer of potato chips or something. I hate to be so difficult or sound Bitter. It's really hard to stand out side of Eden after being kicked out looking in to what it was once than it is to never know or experience it at all.

My family smile, nod and say ok. Fine so you hauled potatochips to raliegh. Yay. good job.

But when I talk about the load of Acid capable of permanently destroying your arms, skin, muscles, blood vessales and tendons and so on down the bone and start to eat the bone and dissolve it easily... the family tends to lean forward on the table eating up the sordid details. Whos the big boy now huh? whose the big boy....

 

It's all bs. It's another gummint money grab.

A determined terrorist nutjob who wants to get hold of a tankload of propane is going to do so, regardless of all the fingerprinting.

I got fingerprinted for my hazmat, then had to go back to the same place, same person, to get fingerprinted for my TWIC. Paid TWICE for same service, different agencies.

I haul foodgrade now. Liquid maltodextrin is loaded at 160F and kept there with intransit heat. That stuff will stick like napalm and cause potentially disfiguring burns.

No one ever seems to consider that.

OP, to answer your question, check with the motor vehicle department in your home state. The short answer is probably that you have to be printed in the state that issued your license.

 

There is some pretty good info here, Trucking & Transportation Pre-Employment Background Checks. Hope that helps.

 

The DMV here gave me a link to sign up for fingerprinting and there was hundreds of places