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Message:: [QUOTE="ethos, post: 3534168, member: 109159"]Well you bring up a lot of stuff with no  paragraphs so it will be hard to answer them all but here goes. As of right now my student and I are at the J in Casper,WY heading to Blaine, WA, so that is pretty far west and north.I do have a respirator and the fit is checked every year. Not sure how hard one needs to train with a respirator, if you need it you just put it on.  Not all that complicated. Actually only 30% of our loads are hazmat, national average. As far as a neutralizing agent I have no idea what you are talking about and I doubt any other driver to include yourself carried enough neutralizing agent around to help them all that much. You can't be prepared for everything. What I do is just not spill and so far it has been working. I think you said something about securing a load and I agree that is why I teach my students to make sure the valves are closed, wash out caps tight and the dome lid secured. Seems to be working. As far as every driver needing to drive a straight and then a combination and so on. That is a fantasy land that honesty doesn't even need to happen. I train brand new out of school drivers to pull a tanker and I do it without fear.[/QUOTE]