CDL · Hazardous materials
Your CDL has no hazardous materials endorsement, and you are told to drive a placarded load of hazardous materials. How should you respond?
Correct answer: Decline to transport the shipment.
Answer options
- ADrive it only as far as the closest point where an endorsed driver can take over
- BRemove the placards and then make the delivery
- CDecline to transport the shipment Correct
Why
Operating a vehicle that must display hazardous materials placards is illegal unless your CDL carries the hazmat endorsement, and that holds for any distance, even a short hand-off. Pulling the placards off would only add another violation, because the shipment still legally requires them.
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Topic: Hazardous materials License: CDL
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Where it applies: Asked in every state.
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