Level 3 insp. and blind loads? Can you be cited for not knowing?

Thing’s sure are different in the tanker world!!
You had better have the proper documentation on what’s in that tank. And YOU the driver had better know what you are hauling!

 

Doesn't sound in any form legal to me

 

even as an O/O ,do you unseal a trailer and open boxes.

no. you go by the BOL.

everyone should look at your doc's. especially a Haz-Mat load,

but there is only so much you are allowed to do.

 

That's true, but they're not required to be listed in ways that humans can readily perceive. I once hauled a DoD load that had nothing but barcodes and serial numbers in the Description column of the BOL. Turns out it was just a bunch of parts for the motor pool.

 

Fair enough, never really had need to look up the regs on it.

Am strap and chain monkey, so its hard for me to not know what im hauling, irritating to have dot ask the question, presumably they have eyes

 

It happened to me. I picked up a sealed trailer. It was light andxI was in a hurry. The officer at the Port of Entry asked me what I was hauling and I said "I don't know. It was a sealed trailer, but here are the BOLs." I was carrying mannequins. I guess the dummy was behind the steering wheel.

 

More likely they'll ask who secured this?

 

Say you pick this load up from a Ryder warehouse. It's preloaded and sealed- bol in the mailbox, sign one copy and take the rest. Load is going to Simplicity, Inc.

How is any driver going to be able to identify the contents of the load?

It's not hazmat and I'm permitted to haul general freight to household goods and everything in-between so I'm good to go. I could call dispatch, then dispatch will call the broker, who will then call the customer and I'll have the answer a week from Tuesday.