time allowed to report a spill of "RQ" substance

Did you really just refer to yourself in 3rd person???

 

Diesel Dave says, Times 2.........

 

ASAP is the answer for a driver. But the book states you tell your employer ASAP and the employer has 30 days from the day of discovery in writing to the DOT on Form F 5800.1 (Hazardous Materials Incident Report).

Page 59 of the Hazmat Compliance Book. If you don't have a compliance book they sell them at truck stops or your first employer should give you one if they are a hazmat carrier.

You won't even see that question on the test because it pertains to what an employer must do. That's one reason I don't like practice test because they randomly make their own questions up that you will never see. When I took the test almost all of them were the same questions in the manual at the end of each section. I told another driver that recently and he come back saying only half of them were but he still passed. The state manuals follow federal guidelines for the most part. They are all written and produced by J.J.Keller and Associates. You'll see that name a lot in your trucking career. They write almost everything we use. www.jjkeller.com

 

Spill? What spill? It was raining that day. All I saw was water pooling up and draining into the ditches. You must be mistaken, I didn't report anything. There was nothing to report.

 

It all evaporated! What spill?

The last I seen it was going down that creek over there!

Or pull a match out, prove it!

 

After unloading a tanker, the residual chemical left over in the tanker trailer is called "heel."
A tank wash has the proper facilities to dispose of "heel."
Driving 70 mph down the interstate at midnight on a dark moonless night with the unload valve open is not the proper way to dispose of "heel."

A tanker driver is supposed to report any hazmat spill, immediately, if not sooner.