Hazmat Drivers

Explosives are classed by sensitivity, highest being first. This is to seperate the likes of fireworks from, say, TNT.

We don't haul 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 because like class 7 with a yellow label number III, those classes are highway route controlled, meaning the driver is required to have a written route plan in his possession. That doesn't work too well for LTL carrier type of operations. Those classes are also Table 1, meaning placard any quantity.

Fireworks on the other hand are 1.4-1.6, as being relatively insensitive. Those classes are table 2, and only 1001 lbs or more is required for placards.

Flammable class 3 is reserved for liquids such as gasoline. Flammable solids are 4.1. Class 5.1 oxidizers and explosives can't be loaded together.

On this chart, the "X" denotes what can't loaded on the same truck, while the "O" denotes minimum 4' of separation and co-mingling prevention is required