- Updated for January 2025
- Based on 2025 SC commercial driver's license manual
Free South Carolina CDL HazMat Practice Test 2025
Whether driving through the coastal plain, the central Piedmont, or the Blue Ridge Mountains, you’ll see the ocean, forests, waterfalls, and a vast array of scenery in South Carolina. You must have your sights on adding the Hazardous Materials (Hazmat) endorsement to your Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). First things first: under federal law, you must be at least 21 years of age to obtain this endorsement. That out of the way, according to 2025 driverreach.com, the Hazmat endorsement not only increases a driver’s marketability but can result in higher pay and recruitment potential!
Explosives, certain types of fuel and industrial chemicals, radioactive materials, and infectious substances: the Hazmat endorsement permits drivers to transport materials that the U.S. government has deemed hazardous. Because of this, the endorsement process contains several hurdles in place to ensure your safety and protect the people and environment in your driving area.
You’ll need to pass a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) fingerprinting and background check. This is step one and the results from TSA can take weeks to arrive, so you’ll want to use that waiting period to study and practice for the second requirement: the DMV knowledge test. The knowledge test addresses topics like federal regulations, substance handling, material packaging, quantity limits, and transport configurations for hazardous materials. You’ll need a score of 80% on South Carolina’s knowledge test, which is made up of 30 questions (South Carolina CDL Handbook 2025).
If this process sounds a little overwhelming, it doesn’t have to be. We have streamlined this process because there are too many economic opportunities out there to ignore this certification. There are multiple industries in South Carolina that require a Hazmat endorsement, including chemical manufacturing (Milliken & Company and Michelin are headquartered in Spartanburg and Greenville, respectively), petroleum and energy (Colonial Group, Inc. and Piedmont Petroleum operate here), waste management and environmental sciences, and industrial gas. So, how can you best prepare?
Our online South Carolina CDL HazMat Endorsement practice tests are strategically designed to avoid the extraneous information you’ll find online and get straight to what’s relevant. We have designed our practice tests to mimic what you will face on the official DMV test. Once you receive your TSA results and feel confidently prepared, you’ll visit the DMV with the necessary documents, pay the fees, and confidently take the test.
- Perfect for first-time and renewal CDL/CLP applicants, and those adding endorsements
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- What is a technical name?
- Do you need to stop before a railroad crossing if you are hauling 100 pounds of Division 4.3 materials?
- What action should you take if you discover your hazardous materials shipment leaking at a rest stop but there is no phone available?
- Which of the following are necessary qualifications for non-bulk packaging?
- Where are the two main places that the hazardous material identification number appears?
- Which of the following is NOT an acceptable type of marking for hazardous materials?
- The Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)
- Which of the following three hazard classes should NOT be placed into a temperature-controlled trailer (one with a heater/air conditioner unit)?
- If you are already carrying 100 pounds of silver cyanide, what precautions must you take if you are given papers at a dock to carry 100 cartons of battery acid?
- Your engine runs a pump when you are delivering compressed gas. After finishing the delivery, when should you turn off the engine?
- If you are carrying Division 1.2 or 1.3 materials, how far away must you park from the traveled portion of the roadway?
- Cargo tanks are
- You must NEVER smoke or perform any activity involving fire within 25 feet of
- Which of the following materials are acceptable floor liners for transporting Division 1.1 or 1.2 materials?
- What is the purpose of a driver placarding his or her vehicle?
- In what location must you keep your shipping papers that describe any hazardous materials?
- When shippers package the material, they are trying to
- What are the major differences between cargo tanks and portable tanks?
- To determine if you need to use placards, you do NOT need to know
- A safe haven is
- If you are carrying Division 1.2 or 1.3 materials, how far away must you park from a bridge, tunnel, or building?
- How often should you check the tires on a placarded trailer that has dual tires?
- Which of the following hazard classes uses a transport index to determine how much of it can be loaded on a single vehicle for transport?
- Besides the shipping papers and the packages, the other two places where the hazardous material identification number must appear are
- A placarded vehicle must carry a fire extinguisher with a minimum rating of
- A shipping paper for hazardous materials must include
- If the word “Forbidden” appears in the Hazard class column of an entry in the hazardous materials table,
- Does the official state CDL manual contain everything you need to know to transport hazardous materials?
- If you are carrying a total of less than 200 pounds of the hazard classes in Placard Table 1,
- Containment rules specify
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