FedEx Freight | Hazmat Test..are You Kidding Me?

Clandestine_ice

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Just got a glimpse of this after doing a 12 hour duty last night and couldn't believe my eyes. Do these clowns just sit in a back room thinking about how difficult they can make life for us. I'm a GD truck driver, not a chemical engineer. I mean WTF!
 
Just got a glimpse of this after doing a 12 hour duty last night and couldn't believe my eyes. Do these clowns just sit in a back room thinking about how difficult they can make life for us. I'm a GD truck driver, not a chemical engineer. I mean WTF!
Test???
 
Well you remember what happened to Lube?
When he put that cyanide based poison ctn with that rusty pail of corrosive in the cab of his truck?
 
Is this another "open book" free format test? I've been there so little time and taken so many tests. At this point I take my time with it and let it eat up my entire shift. I actually read the book lol.
 
Here try this......
They give a crap what you are doing as long
as you are scanned to education. We had a guy
take it 2 or 3 times and we would just gave him
the answers. We always did that , the answers
are easy to get. Just read the crap , same old
thing , you will be fine . OR , you just take pictures
with your cell phone for all the important graphs
and there ya go. Now go out and take your run to
see what you can get off , we can just appoint them
tomorrow and we can still show service and make
pickups.
 
Here try this......
They give a crap what you are doing as long
as you are scanned to education.

Education is the best. I've spent many a shifts sitting in front of a computer drinking a coffee and sifting through books and paperwork. Nobody can rush you, no production ratings and I'm usually by myself. They're paying for my time. If they want me in front of a screen for that time, so be it.
 
Education is the best. I've spent many a shifts sitting in front of a computer drinking a coffee and sifting through books and paperwork. Nobody can rush you, no production ratings and I'm usually by myself. They're paying for my time. If they want me in front of a screen for that time, so be it.

While I guess that might be advantageous for a city driver (less stops), but coming back in the morning after driving all night in Zombie mode? Not so much
 
While I guess that might be advantageous for a city driver (less stops), but coming back in the morning after driving all night in Zombie mode? Not so much
Yeah, I can't imagine taking Hazmat education/test AFTER a long night or day. Sounds PAINFUL. I would probably offer to come in early to do it prior to my shift. I hate to use the term refuse, but I would tell them I simply can't do that while fatigued. CRAZY.
 
Yeah, I can't imagine taking Hazmat education/test AFTER a long night or day. Sounds PAINFUL. I would probably offer to come in early to do it prior to my shift. I hate to use the term refuse, but I would tell them I simply can't do that while fatigued. CRAZY.
But that’s a double edged sword for daytime road drivers...come in early before your shift and spend the usual 1.75-2 hrs taking the haz-mat test and you run outta hours trying to get back in!!

(This doesn’t apply to me, just responding for a friend)
 
Well you remember what happened to Lube?
When he put that cyanide based poison ctn with that rusty pail of corrosive in the cab of his truck?
Pitched a fit one day when I had a shipment of copper cyanide in the same trailer with acid. Took it all the way to the top. The hazmat czar in Harrison said it’s a class 6 and a class 8 there is no compatibility issue. When asked if they knew what happened when mixed.....I’m not a chemical engineer.
 
Chemistry.... In high school, I had to take a summer school class to get that credit. Want to know what i remember? H2O and CO2. That is all.

I also know do not stack hazmat and strap it down. The end.
 
While I guess that might be advantageous for a city driver (less stops), but coming back in the morning after driving all night in Zombie mode? Not so much

It's a double edged sword. I get more fatigued at that computer than I do on the dock or in a truck. I hate starting work after education.
 
Chemistry.... In high school, I had to take a summer school class to get that credit. Want to know what i remember? H2O and CO2. That is all.

I also know do not stack hazmat and strap it down. The end.
Sat behind a hot girl named Leah. Donny Iris over and over on the Kenwood.
 
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