Serious question..

Because you can legally carry hazmat if it's under a reportable quantity.
So it's better you're informed.

And they like to screw with us..

 

Because everything made by humans are hazardous, so it is best to know what is the most hazardous materials out there for both you and everyone else around you.

Better safe then sorry.

 

You want to know the logic behind issuing mass CBTs to the entire company regardless if you're hazmat or not? First off, they're only going to send out one set of CBTs to all the drivers, not CBTs specially catered to each driver.

Which brings us to the real reason why they are spamming hazmat to all the drivers. A non placarded schneider trailer receives little to no scrutiny from dot. We're bypassed on prepass most of the time, and when we go through the scales we just drive through.

However, when a placards schneider trailer pulls through the scales a schneider driver is about 90% more likely to be asked to come in with paperwork, and ultimately is also more subjected to level 1 and 2 inspections. I personally experienced this myself when the shipper provided me with improper placards and although I felt something wasn't right I went with it anyways because I was already late for hometime. Ohio dot pulled me in for a level 1 telling me this was the third time this shipper did this to schneider. I was cited csa points for this and so was schneider. Coincidentally, no more than a month or two after that incident schneider instituted the hazmat checkline, which you had to call in before leaving the shipper to verify the load is correctly placarded.

Bottom line is schneider probably gets dinged for hazmat violations on a very frequent basis and puts their focus on that regardless if you haul it or not.

 

Because it's a cover for subliminal messaging embedded in the video - a secret government funded mind control experiment.

 

We are growing into a society of OVERKILL. Over regulation is weighing heavy on the quality of life. I think paranoia is running ramped in our country. There are many administrative people adding and adding rules and red tape to justify a paycheck. They are losing sight of practicality.

 

ITs called CYA. To many people looking for an easy paycheck.