Hazmat Drivers

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being a former CDL driver myself, if the trailers are full to a certain weight or volume of hazmat, then the CDL trailer driver MUST have the hazmat endorsement. UPS, makes sure of that, when one get's hired, i know, i had applied there, long before i had retired.

the "city" drivers that drive the "brownies" do not necessarily need to have the hazmat endorsement, as the weight of the brownie trucks are well under CDL rules, and most times there isn't all that much hazmat to be delivered on the trucks.

it is highly possible that this covid crap is still setting back all employers, as such that many employee's may not be back to work.
Years back I had two Has Mat parcels due on the same day and had quizzed the UPS driver why I only got one. He said that his Has Mat weight had been reached and the other would be there tomorrow. That is what happened. Before that I never realized they had that weight restriction.
 
There is a nationwide shortage of drivers now because of federal stimulus money going for unemployment and covid-19 reimbursement. The federal money supplements end in September.
If you want more of something, provide an insensitive for it.

The federal money supplements end in September.
Many will not rush back to work, the entitlement mentality takes hold quickly in a lot of people.
 
There has been a nationwide shortage of drivers since forever. When I was driving OTR in the '90's, the company I was driving for actually started recruiting drivers from Scotland and Ireland... bringing them here, training them, and putting them in trucks, and I think that was expanded to other countries as well.

It's sad to say, but what I was making as a non-union OTR driver back in the 1990's, is less than what they are paying today, adjusted for inflation.

I also realize this thread has gone completely off the reloading reservation... whoops. :eek:
 
The federal money supplements end in September.
That's a subjective assumption based on specious objective evidence. Congress can always extend the subsidies or vote to impose an unfunded mandate on the States to continue providing the benefits. It isn't legal but then it doesn't have to be. By the time the first case worms its way through the courts - with hand-picked judges approving of Congressional over-reach - we will have a new Congress.

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session.
 
I also realize this thread has gone completely off the reloading reservation... whoops. :eek:
Not really. The supply shortages affecting reloading, shooting, and many other aspects of life are directly related to OTR trucking and transportation. There are no magic carpets. There is no transporter beam technology. Planes, trains and ships do not a magically load themselves and there are no runways, rail studs, or ports leading to processor loading docks. Every *thing* in this country moves by truck at some point in its retail, wholesale, and supply-chain life-cycle. EVERY THING - including the copper and tin to make brass, the chemicals to make priming compound, the oil and/or coal to convert inertia to electricity, and lubricants for the machinery that makes the priming cups.
 
I got a return email from Midway about my hazmat shipment that is delayed. The official answer is "UPS has limited drivers who can transport hazmat products." We basically already knew this but I thought I'd pass along the info.
 
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