Becoming a hazmat private carrier.... what's involved?

I’d say start with your insurance company, I would think they could give you some guidance. Follow up with your state commercial vehicle compliance office. I have no experience, those are just guesses based on what I’d do.

 

Insurance; update your MCS90 and MCS150 with the DOT.

Training documentation for drivers with HM endorsements; plus ANY staff involved in any way with the drivers and their equipment conducted within 90 days of starting this aspect of your business. Rinse and repeat every 3 years. J J Keller has everything you need.

Trailer inspection and maintenance is going to be the expensive part; cyro trailer is a 'special' animal and I don't know anyone who leases them turn key.

 

Maybe you could rent one of
Your drivers out to the cryo company ?
To deliver the loads to
Your place ?

or trip lease one of your tractors to them and pull their trailer ?

 

Before you chase anything else I'd figure out the insurance. My insurer is fairly big and they work solely with truckers/small trucking companies. They use all the big agencies and they won't touch haz. I think this is why you almost never see an O/O or real small fleet moving haz.

If there is a trick to this I'd love to know more too!

 

Running haz I’m sitting at $60k / year for all the insurances

It was hard for my small little 3 truck carrier……but oh so worth it.

 

20k for one truck then? that's like 1st year OO entry $

 

This driver is loaded up with tanks of natural gas.

 

Not quite, my ins is roughly 10k for the two 2 new trucks and 6k for the other one. That’s for the liability and collision ( collision is the expensive part )

Then the rest of the insurances are over the whole company, not per truck.