SAMPLE QUESTIONS
| 1. | You are assigned as the supervisor in section 13 and today is the recycling collection day. The district received a phone call from a resident within your section. The caller stated that all of the recycling on his street was picked up except for his. | |
| You respond to his address to find that the whole block was serviced for recycling except for one small clear bag filled with metal, glass and plastic in front of the callers address. You should | ||
| A) | Tell the caller to take his recycling back inside until his next recycling pick up day since he probably placed it out after the truck had already gone down his block | |
| B) | Place the small clear bag in the trunk of your car and bring it back to the garage to be placed in the appropriate recycling truck | |
| C) | Issue the caller a summons for improper recycling. | |
| D) | Divert a recycling truck back down the street to pick up the clear bag. | |
| 2. | While driving through your section, a home owner waves you over and states that he is remodeling his kitchen himself. He has accumulated some debris and needs one of your your collection crews to remove the renovation debris from his back yard. You should | |
| A) | Tell the home owner that because it is construction debris, he must rent a 30 yd container from a private carter for the removal of the debris. | |
| B) | Tell the home owner that he must contact the District Superintendent to arrange a "Special Pick Up" of the debris. | |
| C) | Tell the home owner that he may place up to six bags, boxes or bundles of the debris at the curb on his regular collection days. | |
| D) | Have a collection crew remove the debris from the home owners yard since the renovation work is not being performed by a private contractor. | |
| 3. | Civilian clerk Jane Smith is filling out the district operations book (DS 744) for the day shift | |||||||
| According to O.O. 95-08, the appropriate abbreviation to use in column B for the large wrecker is | ||||||||
| A) | LW | B) | WKR | C) | WR | D) | LWR | |
| 4. | A listing of special use buildings must be kept | |
| A) | in the back of the district carting book | |
| B) | on the district snow board during night plow | |
| C) | on the district cleaning board | |
| D) | on file in the appropriate section office | |
| 5. | Garage Supervisors are responsible for maintaining copies of all district cleaning and collection routes. | ||||
| A) | True | B) | False | ||
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6. |
It is 06:00 on a Monday morning in January
and the Superintendent's Clerk, S/W White, has called in sick. The
District Superintendent does not want a new sanitation worker with no
experience to fill in for the day.
S/W Goodfellow has 10 years in the district and was the Superintendent's Clerk up until three months ago. According to the district operations board, S/W Goodfellow is scheduled to work on a paper recycling truck for the day. The Superintendent wants to take S/W Goodfellow off of his recycling route to fill in as the Superintendents Clerk for the day. Which of the following is most true. |
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| A) | S/W Goodfellow must volunteer to do it | |
| B) | According to G.O. 96-05, S/W Goodfellow must get paid the appropriate truck money | |
| C) | All Sanitation workers with less seniority must first refuse to do it. | |
| D) | S/W Goodfellow's union representative must be notified. | |
| 7. | S/W Jack is new on the job and has limited driving experience. While dumping a relay at an export transfer station, S/W Jack is concerned about his ability to safely back the collection truck onto the tipping floor using the guide person employed by the private transfer station. | |
| What should S/W Jack do? | ||
| A) | Let the transfer station employee back the truck onto the tipping floor in order to avoid causing any damage to the private transfer station facility. | |
| B) | Call his garage supervisor for guidance. | |
| C) | Wait for a Department of Sanitation Export Supervisor to respond to the transfer station to guide him back onto the tipping floor. | |
| D) | Use extreme caution while backing up the vehicle, following the guide persons directions | |
| 8. | According to O.O. 95-08, a list of all personnel who received snow training during night plow should be kept | |
| A) | in the back of the DS 744 | |
| B) | in the front of the district snow operations book | |
| C) | in the Borough office | |
| D) | in the Bureau Operations office | |
| 9. | You are assigned as the section supervisor for section 13 for the day. While driving east on 13th Street, you stop for a red light at First Avenue. While waiting for the light to turn green, collection truck 25CU-123 passes through the intersection in front of you with S/W James driving and S/W Rickles riding on the rear step. 25CU-123 is traveling south on First Avenue towards a collection stop on 12th Street. Upon observing this you should | |
| A. | catch up to collection truck 25CU-123 and ask S/W James and S/W Rickles if they will finish their route for the day. | |
| B. | do nothing since collection crews are allowed to ride on the rear step while on their collection route | |
| C. | take disciplinary action against S/W James for a safety violation | |
| D. | take disciplinary action against both sanitation workers for a safety violation | |
| 10. | On a January day you are assigned as the supervisor for section 23. The garage supervisor tells you to use passenger car 31BL-018 for the day. You check the oil and transmission fluid and they are at the correct level. Upon entering the vehicle you check the fuel gauge for the CNG tank and see that it is half full. After turning the ignition key, the vehicle does not start right away. According to the Department Message on starting CNG vehicles, you should | |
| A. | Press down on the accelerator peddle while cranking the engine until it starts. | |
| B. | Ask the garage supervisor for a different vehicle since CNG vehicles must have more than half of a tank of CNG in order to start in cold weather. | |
| C. | Keep cranking the engine until the engine starts. | |
| D. | Immediately report the vehicle as "down" and tell the mechanic that it does not start. | |
