Just a heads up, it took them 2 months after I was fingerprinted to get my background check done. Get right on it when yours is due in case this happens to you.
You need to make sure you do not lapse your DOT medical Cert and do not wait too close to renewal date on the HM which is I think 5 years. My state issues 8 year CDLs and other realid licenses. So theoretically if your HM expired years before the CDL does the State will downgrade the whole thing to a basic car license instantly. Poof.
On paper in my State i am grandfathered in so getting a CDL for farm work if need be in that Tier without a DOT Medical anything is possible without too much trouble at the Revenuer. (Yes we call the DMV that too because they also collect Taxes)
I still have a almost current yellow-orange HM book next to my trucking briefcase as a memory item but also due to railroading in my area that carries trainloads of the stuff. Its getting almost to the point I can see a diamond with a number inside and know roughly whatsit. Chlorine gas in particular or its enablers.
I turned in my HM years ago in spite of a dispatcher one day. he complained of waiting almost a hour while I took the bypass for HM routing. a hour after that, no more HM. TYVM.
We used to get a mailed notice of a completed background check here in Pa. Last time, maybe 18 months ago, no notice. Waited 3 months, covid. Then called. It was done in a week.
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