Title. I work a DOT job that regularly involves transportation of hazardous materials, including sometimes amounts or types of materials that require a hazmat endorsement. Some of my coworkers do not have this endorsement. On more than a few occasions we’ve been sent on a job that required transporting something that required this endorsement, but had no one there with those qualifications to do that. We’ve been expected to transport them regardless.
I have personally brought this issue up on several occasions. I have also refused to transport them myself, although I have been a passenger in some of these vehicles. The reason we don’t have an endorsement is due to procrastination of management and then not allowing time in the schedule for people to obtain the endorsement, in other words not wanting to interrupt business operations for even a day to do so.
They have never directly told us we have to but there’s always been an implication of “don’t cause any trouble”. The schedule has been written in a way that indicates that this is expected of us.
What type of trouble could we get in individually if caught doing this? Also how do I snitch? I don’t really care if I lose this job