Explosives and Radioactive

Class in over and we are re certified for Hazmat and Radioactive for three years. FedEx Custom Critical has an awesome instructor who lives and breaths Hazmat and is under the impression everyone should love the details! Melissa is a great teacher as she actually can convey how cool some of this stuff really is and why hauling radioactive loads is one of the safest HazMat loads you can haul. We covered proper shipping names, shipping classes, what is compatible and not and where to find the the information. We were in a class that was all re certifying so that sped the class up some on the basics and we could get more into the intricacies of when you need to press your panic button, how to handle being pulled over by the police or DOT and what to do if an officer or custom agent wants to try and cut the government seal. Now we will need to look into getting another card as it looks as if the TWIC card will replace our CAC card showing we have had a background check. We carry a few cards like this we have had a back ground check to go into Canada with our FAST card, we have had a background check to haul government loads, we have had a background check for our drivers licenses, we have had a background check to carry our CAC card, we have had a background check for our passport, and now another background check to go into ports and haul sensitive loads. It would be awesome if we could combine some of these background checks and only have to write one check but NOPE we get to pay for basically the same background check several times with varying fees!