cdl hazmat Flashcards

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1. A vehicle placarded for hazardous materials is required to have placards on how many sides of the vehicle?
2. A placarded vehicle must have at least how many placards?
3. A hazard class name or ID number may not be used to describe what kind of material?
4. If an "X" or an "RQ" is written or typed into the HM column of a shipping paper entry, what does it mean?
5. Who do the regulations say is responsible for packaging, labeling and preparing the hazardous material shipping papers for shipment?
6. You may not park a vehicle carrying hazardous materials within how many feet of an open fire?
7. Whenever your vehicle is placarded, do not drive near an open fire unless you can do what?
8. The description of a hazardous material must include the hazard class, the identification number and a proper shipping name. Which is required to be listed first?
9. What appears first in the description of a hazmat on a shipping paper?
10. The basic shipping description of a hazmat product must include what?
11. When shippers package hazardous materials, they must certify that this was done according to the regulations. What is the exception for highway shipments?
12. Carriers are required to give each driver who transports Division 1.1 or Division 1.2 explosives what?
13. When transporting Class A or B explosives (now Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3), carriers must give each driver what?
14. Drivers must have what in their possession while transporting Class A or B explosives (now Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3)?
15. When you're handling packages of explosives, what must you never use?
16. What is the largest allowable total transport index of all packages in a single vehicle?
17. Which hazard class uses a transport index to determine how much of it can be loaded on a single vehicle for transport?
18. A transport index relates to products that are what?
19. You're hauling 2000 pounds of a corrosive. You may park within how many feet of the road if your work requires it and it's for a very short period of time?
20. If you are carrying Division 1.2 or 1.3 materials, how far away must you park from the traveled portion of the roadway?
21. Which hazardous materials don't allow you to park within 5 feet of the road?
22. When transporting explosives, where can you not stop or park?
23. How far away must you park from a bridge, tunnel, or building if you are carrying Division 1.2 or 1.3 materials?
24. If you're hauling hazardous materials and you discover one of your tires is leaking air, what must you do?
25. When fueling a placarded vehicle, someone must always be where?
26. While transporting hazardous materials you stop to eat lunch at a truck stop. When you're in the truck stop, where must the shipping papers be placed?
27. Where must shipping papers always be kept when you are behind the wheel with your seat belt on?
28. During an en-route inspection, you discover an overheated tire. If you're hauling hazardous materials, what must you do?
29. How often should you check the tires on a placarded trailer that has dual tires?
30. When hauling hazardous materials, how often must you stop your vehicle and check the tires?
31. If you're transporting Division 1.1 or 1.2 explosives, what vehicle combinations must you not use?
32. When you're transporting chlorine in cargo tanks, what must you have?
33. You may not smoke around any vehicle being loaded or unloaded with which materials?
34. Which hazard classes must you NEVER smoke within 25 feet of?
35. Which of the following materials would be an acceptable floor liner for moving Division 1.1 or 1.2 materials?
36. Which three hazard classes have limits on being placed into a temperature-controlled trailer (one with a heater unit)?
37. After loading hazmat in a cargo tank, what must you do?
38. Which of the following is the proper definition of a cargo tank?
39. What is a technical name?
40. A safe haven is defined as what?
41. A vehicle placarded for Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives may be left unattended where?
42. When must a driver that hauls hazmat attend training?
43. Product ID markings on a tank must be what?
44. Tankers used to transport hazmat must be marked with what?
45. Product ID numbers must appear on each side and both ends of a tank containing what?
46. What placard must be used with an inhalation hazard load?
47. When is it acceptable to use a placard with DANGEROUS on it?
48. When should the placards be placed on a vehicle?
49. If the hazmat is classified as FORBIDDEN, what should you do?
50. When transporting hazmat waste, what must you carry?
51. Cylinders containing compressed gases may only be loaded onto a vehicle without a flat floor or platform if the cylinders are in what?
52. When transporting compressed gases, what must you do with the cylinders?
53. Your engine runs a pump when you are delivering compressed gas. Should you turn off your engine before or after you unhook the hoses after finishing the delivery?
54. You should turn off your engine when loading or unloading flammable liquid unless what?
55. When transporting hazmat and non-hazmat, your bills (shipping papers) must do what?
56. The hazard class of all materials specifies what?
57. Who do the regulations say is responsible for checking that the shipper correctly named, labeled and marked a hazardous material shipment?
58. What knowledge does 49 CFR 383.121 require of a hazardous materials endorsement applicant?
59. Before a state may issue, renew, upgrade or transfer a hazmat endorsement, what security condition must be met?
60. How often must a hazmat endorsement be renewed?
61. How far ahead of expiration must a state tell a hazmat endorsement holder about the TSA security threat assessment?
62. Whose driving and parking laws must a hazmat vehicle obey under 49 CFR 397.3?
63. Who must attend a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives?
64. When may a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives be left unattended on a construction or survey site?
65. A vehicle carrying hazmat other than Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 is stopped on a public highway or its shoulder. Must the driver attend it?
66. When is a hazmat vehicle considered "attended" under 49 CFR 397.5?
67. How close to the traveled portion of a public highway may a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives park?
68. How close to a bridge, tunnel, dwelling or place where people gather may a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives park?
69. Where may a vehicle carrying hazmat other than Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 not park?
70. What must a driver do before driving a hazmat vehicle near an open fire?
71. How close to an open fire may a hazmat vehicle park?
72. How close to a vehicle carrying Class 1, Class 5 or flammable hazmat may anyone smoke?
73. What two rules apply while a hazmat vehicle is being fueled?
74. When must the driver of a hazmat vehicle examine its tires?
75. A tire on a hazmat vehicle is found flat or leaking. May the vehicle be driven?
76. What must a hazmat driver do about an overheated tire?
77. What documents must a carrier give the driver of a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives?
78. Under 49 CFR 397.67(b), what must the route of a placarded hazmat vehicle avoid?
79. Is operating convenience a valid reason to route a hazmat vehicle through a heavily populated area?
80. Who prepares the written route plan for a vehicle carrying Division 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 explosives?
81. A vehicle carries a highway route controlled quantity of Class 7 radioactive material. How must it get around a city?
82. Under 49 CFR 177.816(a), what must a hazmat driver's training cover?
83. Which hazmat drivers need extra training plus the CDL required by Part 383 under 49 CFR 177.816(b)?
84. Can a current CDL with a tank vehicle or hazmat endorsement satisfy the driver training required by 49 CFR 177.816?
85. May an initial motor carrier accept hazmat whose shipping paper has no shipper's certification?
86. When a driver carries the hazmat shipping paper together with other papers, how must it be made easy to find?
87. Where must the hazmat shipping paper be kept while the driver is at the vehicle's controls?
88. The driver steps out of the cab. Where does the hazmat shipping paper go?
89. How long must a motor carrier keep a copy of a hazmat shipping paper?
90. In an emergency, when may a carrier move a hazmat vehicle that is not properly marked and placarded?
91. Is smoking allowed near a leaking cargo tank?
92. How far may a leaking cargo tank be driven?
93. How must hazmat packages be secured inside a vehicle?
94. While loading or unloading which hazmat classes is smoking on or near the vehicle forbidden?
95. What must be done with the handbrake before hazmat is loaded or unloaded?
96. May anyone open or discharge a hazmat container between its origin and its billed destination?
97. Who must attend a cargo tank while it is being loaded?
98. How close must the qualified person be to attend the unloading of a cargo tank?
99. Who counts as a qualified person to attend cargo tank loading or unloading?
100. What must be closed before a cargo tank motor vehicle carrying hazmat is driven?
101. Must the engine be off while Class 1 explosives are loaded or unloaded?
102. What handling of Class 1 explosive packages is banned during loading and unloading?
103. May a cargo tank's engine run while Class 3 flammable liquid is loaded or unloaded?
104. In what order is the bonding wire connected when loading Class 3 material into a cargo tank through an open filling hole?
105. How must cylinders of Class 2 gases be loaded on a motor vehicle?
106. May cyanides be loaded and transported with acids?
107. How long must the person who offers a hazmat shipment keep a copy of the shipping paper?
108. Which items from the 172.101 table must appear in a hazmat shipping description?
109. What is the standard wording of the shipper's certification on a hazmat shipping paper?
110. May the emergency response number on a shipping paper be an answering service that calls back?
111. Who must have immediate access to hazmat emergency response information during transport?
112. Which kinds of hazmat employee training does 49 CFR 172.704(a) list?
113. May a newly hired hazmat employee do hazmat work before completing training?
114. How often must hazmat employees repeat their DOT hazmat training?
115. How long must a hazmat employer keep a record of an employee's hazmat training?
116. May a state require more hazmat training for truck drivers than the federal rules do?
117. May a truck display a sign or slogan that looks like a hazmat placard?
118. Who must provide the placards for a hazmat shipment by highway, and may the carrier move it without them?
119. Must an emptied bulk packaging such as a cargo tank keep its placards?
120. May the front placard of a tractor-trailer go on the truck-tractor?
121. How far must a placard be from ladders, tarps and advertising on a vehicle?
122. Under 49 CFR 171.8, how large must a liquid receptacle be to count as bulk packaging?
123. What is a cargo tank motor vehicle?
124. Is a self-employed owner-operator who hauls hazmat covered as a hazmat employee?
125. What hazard defines a Division 1.1 explosive?
126. How does a Division 1.4 explosive differ from a Division 1.2 explosive?
127. What flash point makes a liquid a Class 3 flammable liquid?
128. What flash point range defines a combustible liquid?
129. What is a Class 8 corrosive material?
130. Which crimes permanently disqualify an applicant from the hazmat endorsement?
131. When does an interim disqualifying felony bar a hazmat endorsement applicant?
132. Can a hazmat endorsement applicant who is wanted or under indictment for a listed felony qualify?
133. What immigration status does a hazmat endorsement applicant need?
134. What counts as mental incapacity for the TSA hazmat security threat assessment?
135. What checks make up the TSA security threat assessment for a hazmat endorsement?
136. By when must a driver begin the TSA security threat assessment to renew a hazmat endorsement?

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