IMAhobbyist
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- Nov 4, 2020
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Not just Midway. The hazmat requirements are kind of stupid. The seller has to have a hazmat certified packager (who packages it the exact same way the package every other thing they sell, except for the special label). Then it has to be picked up by a hazmat certified driver from the shipping company....and every single friggin' transfer has to be to a hazmat certfified driver. Everywhere up and down the chain......there are labor shortages, and every where along the path a hazmat package may sit because of a lack of hazmat certified personnel. It'll get there eventually. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had a case of primers sit at the local UPS for a week, because the regular, hazmat certified, local driver was on vacation, and his temp replacement wasn't hazmat certified. Just another sign of the sh!tshow times we live in. Everybody knows the entire hazmat program is a method of income generation by the government, and more defacto regulation to control the flow of free trade.
Now retired after 33 years at UPS, hauled many couponed HazMat packages during that time in both package car and dbl trailers without any official gov'mt issued HazMat endorsement. Axed a still employed friend last month if anything has changed in that regard, it hasn't here. Maybe along the eastern corridor or somewhere else the rules are different due to tunnels, bridges, who knows......I'm just saying in the midwest, there is no special endorsement required for a UPS driver to be able to deliver couponed HazMat parcels.