If in doubt, put a placard on the trailer. It shouldn't be too hard to obtain, and could very well save you thousands of dollars in fines...or so my studying has said. If you were in a situation where you could not get on this forum to ask the question or no one has responded yet, your best bet would be to: 1. Call the company that you're at, and ask them the question, 2. go online to your state's DMV and bring up the online manual, or 3. placard it. It'd probably be best to do all 3, but that would be me because I would be the one to pay the fines and my driving record would suffer the consequences. So, it falls on the driver, again. That's my 2 cents. I'm not trying to be an ###hole, just realistic and practical.
Has HAZMAT but doesn't need PLACARDS???
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Thats sound advice Haunted, I am no longer a driver, I am the guy the drivers call to explain the regulations. I have a class A Hazmat driver pulling the load, so we are all good. Shipping just was tossing around ideas about the possibility of a non-cdl driver, picking up some LTL in a smaller truck. Needless to say, I did not approve my company to make that run.
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You bet haunted! Good luck on your tests, just relax and you will do fine. My first job right out of school was team driving for a local flatbed company with a guy I just graduated CDL school with a month prior. It was november, and we had lots of runs to the NE. I-79, I-77 wild ### ride for a newbie! Man it was cold, and the tarps were like sheets of ice. MY partner was so nerved up, I do not think he slept for several days. He had drove big trucks as a young man, thank god he had experience, he literally save our ### a couple of times. Think they paid the truck .40 a mile, so we got to split that. The truck never, ever stopped, 12 day trips and home for a reset. I was exhausted! You can actually get some decent sleep after a while in a moving truck, although I have to admit I sprang for a motel every few days to get some decent sleep and a nice hot shower. It was no vacation, but the ride was exciting.
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Good idea going flats or tankers! Good luck!
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Anyway, lesson of the day: do not listen to any advice given by me, and I will not give out advice unless I'm 110% sure I'm right.
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