Haz-Mat

if your hauling ANY hazmat load call Safety first before you even hook into the trailer and ask if it needs placards and send in a message via QC to have it documented and cover your butts.

 

I hauled a load of plastic or styrofoam pellets. Placarded out of Mexico. Mentor didn't have the endorsement. Called safety and they said "peel off the decals. It's is only considered hazmat in Mexico."

Yet the info on the BOL said " trailer must air out 1hr before entering to unload."

 

With Hazmat you get paid .1 cent per mile for *all* miles you drive. This is an incentive for having a Hazmat. If you do a Hazmat load you get a $25 bonus as well.

 

Not a Swift.

 

It's best to buy yourself a Hazmat Guide at a truck stop. It's right beside your DOT bible. Most hazmat employers supply them for free, so you might ask your safety guy.

Alot of stuff has to be so much weight before it is a reportable quantity. Example is a pallet under 2500 lbs. Hazmat is required to have HMIS (Hazardous Material Identification System) stickers on the product. The little red/blue/yellow/white square or triangle stickers that identify health/flammability/reactivity numbered 1-4.

Hazmat is not suppose to be shipped or stored with food items. I guess they let the fire extigushers slide because it wasn't a reportable quantity.

Also shippers by federal law are required to give you a MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet).

So when in question look for them stickers and look at your Hazmat Book which has a list of things that are hazmat.

 

35 dollars extra, that it for swift.....i did one hazmat load arizona to conneticut. Its not worth the hassle, get the endorsement but its not worth the hassle to tell swift about it. Your opening yourself up to a bunch of problems for 35 bucks

 

hench the reason i dont have hazmat not worth the trouble jmo.

 

$35 if it was more often would be great. Longest load I did was from South Charleston WV to Memphis. That was better than a penny a mile.

Conway pays 3 cents IIRC only when you have a hazmat load.

 

Your safety man is the go to guy on hazmat questions. Most are top notch on what you can and can't do.

Plastic pellets generate static electricity and during transport they rub against each other. That's why they probably why they wanted it to air out to settle the air and product. It takes a good spark to ignite them. As long as the truck isn't grounding out, no spark will happen.