Dangerous goods

Knox County Deputy Jake Martin, a SWAT member and field training officer who rescued a pinned-down partner and the partner's canine during more than an hour of active gunfire.

Also, KFD Deputy Chief Gary Compton, 40-year veteran who expanded EMS, Swiftwater Rescue, Technical Rescue, Wildland, Hazmat, Critical Care Capabilities, retiring in 2028.

Or another finalist is KPD Crime Scene Technician Cody Lawson.

He was shot.

I had a problem with doing the pee sample in the toilet.

Is it? This might be a two-fold question, but similar to the pee sample, do they give you a clear plastic bag? Yes, with that Hazmat logo on it.

Yeah.

Is that the hazmat logo? You know, it's like the biological sample.

They had been on the job a long time.

But the other thing I didn't realize was their version of hazmat, they're called dangerous goods officers.

They have a wide territory.

Like multiple countries? Yes,

And trying to resolve these complexities with these sort of issues, it's not easy.

No, and we sort of have a difficulty because we don't like naming particular jobs, but on the other hand, we thought we could talk about this in a more general sense, and this was particularly to do with the transport of dangerous goods and tunnels and cuttings and things like that.

Now, as a general standard and proposition, you don't take dangerous goods through tunnels because if something goes wrong, particularly if it explodes, obviously the explosion is confined by the tunnel, in which case the consequence is worse, so you tend just not to do it.

So the general rule is you ban...

the carted loads going through tunnels.

But one of the things was that the various tenders had the right to put in a non-competing bid.

And I remember sort of doing the review and doing things.

And we noticed that if you really wanted to get the dangerous goods out of the highway and out of the community, you wanted them on the freeway.

They're including the Judiciary Committee, which includes Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, a Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, and a Select Subcommittee on January 6th.

And then kind of in our world here in the railroading, he's also part of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which includes being chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation, Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipeline, and Hazardous Materials, and Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Troy resides in Richmond, Texas, which I'm very familiar with, with his wife, Jill, and their daughters, Jenna, Cambry, and Tori.

And with that, I say welcome, Congressman, to the American Railroading Podcast.

We almost have like 60, 65 members, you know, on both sides of the aisle.

And then there are six subcommittees.

right so usually members will get two subcommittees uh you'll be on the full committee and then you get two subcommittees fortunate for me uh they they put me on three uh the white house kind of pressured that said keep nails on you know dealing with railroads and pipelines and stuff so i'm on three subcommittees and uh last congress i was the chairman of the Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee.

And now this term, I'm the chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee.

So, Mark, continue on.

So, as TAN is a hauler of dangerous goods, transportation dangerous goods training is mandatory.

There are several companies that provide generic transportation dangerous goods training.

Is this enough, or should there be additional training to what the TDG regulations call for?

So we used to get a lot of feedback, maybe negative feedback from trainees because they would get assigned a bunch of Carrier's Edge training.

And part of that online training was dangerous goods training.

And my understanding was that the Carrier's Edge course was kind of four to five hours long depending on how fast you were.

And you were learning an awful lot of stuff that really didn't matter to what you were about to do for us.

Okay, Jenny, go.

Hazmat.

Space? Space?

No, why did I say space? That's not what I meant to say.

hazmat suit?

No, but it's toxic.

is toxic.

Yeah.

The villain of the week in Venom number one was Hazmat.

No, not the woman you're thinking of that you used to use a lot in Marvel Snap.

Not Jennifer.

academy marvel snap not

even just that not not only just that but she's effectively captain marvel's sidekick in the kelly thompson run Oh, yeah, yeah.

In the Kelly Thompson run, Captain Marvel, like, basically, Captain Marvel has Hazmat.

She kind of takes Hazmat under her wing because Hazmat's kind of finally getting a better handle on her powers and, you know, trying to, like, you get her shit together and, like, basically... kind of helping you carol through some pretty dark times and and also in turn you uh hazmat kind of finding her own like voice within the framework of the captain marvel series um so yeah i was like wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute i was like there's no fucking i was like and then then it then it hit me and i was like oh that hazmat

And then said, we're calling the professionals.

And Loudoun County Hazmat came in.

And it's a long process.

There's a lot of getting ready.