FedEx Ground Linehaul with JohnBoy

Double Trailers; Heavier Trailer before Lighter Trailer 23 CFR

Well I tried to fire up the ole Google machine and look it up, and the only thing I found was another user said something similar in 2017.

And yessir I ran into what you were saying when I did LTL. A lot of those bills are just guesses and when you run it over the scale it can be vastly different than what is manifested.

 

I can assure you Fedex is by the book when it comes to placards. We receive the hazardous placard instructions with the manifests and are provided with all necessary placards to meet DOT requirements. We also have placard stickers for displaying bulk packaging. We have to make the stickers up placing the UN numbers on them.

I've had times where I had three different placards on my trailer and I had to be aware of how the placards changed as I unloaded each hazmat shipment. Hazmat can be quite confusing and in depth especially with repsect to hazardous classes, bulk vs non bulk etc. We train on it every year.

Here's an example of a bulk shipment plus a non bulk corrosive, plus two other table 2 that meet the dangerous requirement I had.

 

Yeah, it's by the book, and it does make sense, just a different gestalt that takes some getting used to. My old safety department's policy was "more than 1,000 lbs total of hazmat placards are required for each class on the trailer, more than 8,000 lbs of any type gets a separate placard with the UN number on it", which makes sense in the TL world where there isn't a lot of hazmat class mixing. It makes no sense in the LTL world, and I'll make the adjustment, it's just weird.

 

Yeah there's one on I-24 west just outside of Nashville when you start going up that big hill with 3 lanes. Can't remember the exact milemarker somewhere between the 34 and the 38. Haven't seen him in a few weeks but in the spring almost every trip thru there he was munching on the weeds next to the shoulder lol. I remember 10 or 15 years ago coming out of the gorge in NC somewhere either before you got to TN or maybe in TN (Can't remember exactly) there was 2 or 3 goats that lived on the shoulder there for years lol.

 

JohnBoy,

I think you'll like Fairhope a lot. The wife and I have travelled there in the 5th wheel and it seems like a fairly nice town to be in. Of course you'll be close to Gulf Shores, Robertsdale, etc. Good luck on your future there.

 

Hey JB, once you make the move you will be a little over an hour away. Would love to meet up and buy you and the wife dinner.

 

I live south of Fairhope.
This is a nice area.