I’ve got a complete inventory....... no one has ever said anything except the accident wise crack..... I even gave a complete set to a ltl guy who was put out of service for wrong placards.... he gave me $100 said the boss told him to . I said no but he insisted that the boss would pay him back...... And yes shipper is responsible for placards....... but you “should” have your own.
Shipper must provide proper placards. Driver/carrier is responsible to install them and maintain them during trop.
I found an old bunch of metal flip placards out in the shop yesterday. Remember those? The whole thing was permanently mounted on the tank and you just flipped through them until you find the one you wanted They had fifteen or twenty different placards hinged and with thumb snaps to hold them in place. One of them was for Radioactive Liquid. I wonder if the scale guys would still want to inspect you if you had a load like that.
You only need your own if you lose one. Best way (putting theft aside) to prevent one from flying away on the highway is to have plastic placard holders over them. Problem solved.
Those are old? Since when? Hell, our NEW trailers come in with 2 sets of those and one slide-in per side.
In a perfect world that may be the case, but I’ve encountered probably a total of ONE shipper in my experience that had those. Bottom line though is this. No placards for a shipments that requires them means no pickup.
Okay, "old" is a relative term. The metal placards were on some old PIE and Matlack trailers that we bought years ago for off-site storage. The trailers are from the mid seventies. They're not as old as I am but hardly anything is.
SO how many bales did it take to fuel the horse during the day on your local runs when you first started out? EDIT for dumb spelling mistakes.
Bales? Several. We finally got rid of them and went to chain-drive Macks and Fageols...they only ate when they worked. Okay, that was a fib. They didn't have any chain drive equipment still on the road when I went to work. We did have a chain drive Mack that we used for a water truck in the lumber mill though. We used to try to drive it as fast as we could because at slow speeds you had to stand up to turn the steering wheel.
