Agricultural Hazardous Materials Transportation
Endorsement
Ben Laverty, Kern County Farm Bureau Rural Health and Safety
Committee;
President & CEO of CSTC®, Exclusive Trainers of the AgHazMat Training
Program
Many questions have recently come in regarding the
Agricultural Hazardous Materials Transportation Endorsement training and
certification after attendees came to a class and took the certificate to their
local Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) field office.
DMV's have been informing people that they can not apply for the endorsement
without going through the provisions listed under the USA PATRIOT ACT and
Section 15250(b)(1) in the California Vehicle Code. California Safety Training
Corporation, after learning of the difficulties people have gone through to
obtain/renew their endorsement, looked into this further, and contacted the
California Highway Patrol's Commercial Vehicle Enforcement in Sacramento, CA.
Mr. Vince Curry of the California Highway Patrol Commercial Vehicle Section
assisted California Safety Training Corporation in the quest to obtain further
information from the Department of Motor Vehicles regarding the DL 267
certificate and the USA Patriot Act. On May 13, 2005 the DMV mailed a letter to
many employers of Commercially Licensed Drivers with a Hazardous Materials
Endorsement (HME). The letter outlined the process to obtain or renew a HME.
The letter did NOT address California's Hazardous Materials Certificate (DL
267) in any manner. However, some DMV Field Offices have informed farm workers
applying for the DL 267 that they are required to submit an application to TSA.
The DL 267 is not an "endorsement" and therefore is exempt from the
provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT and Section 15250(b)(1) of the California
Vehicle Code.
If anyone has attended the Agricultural Hazardous Materials Transportation
Endorsement Training, and is having problems with their local DMV field office
in regards to obtaining/renewing the endorsement on the Class C (NON
COMMERCIAL) driver's license, please contact Sarah Forbus-Turner or Jennifer Vallejo
with CSTC® at 661-847-8300 for further assistance.
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