HazMat in a reefer?

Done all the time nothing wrong with it....and remember just cause it is a reefer doesn't mean there is anything edible in it....a reefer is just an insulated trailer w/a motor on front.....no difference than loading hazmat on a dry box....then reloading an edible product....much ado about nothing

 

Quite a few thermoset resins coming out of the 3M plant in Milwaukee. Materials set and cure well above 400F BUT that doesn't mean a trailer hitting 100/110 can't warp out the shapes, and basically destroy the load. Very expensive...dispatch made that much clear...

 

Ever eaten some of my food? It definitely classifies as hazmat!

 

oh so reefers can't haul Hazmat?

thats racist!


I though I heard somewhere that 7up has to be placarded, citric acid

 

Thats funny, i recently had a customer refuse to load me with 2 skids of flour because i had just picked up 2 totes of car wash soap haha

 

No, this goes in Pepsi and many other soft drinks. I've hauled a lot of Pepsi loads out of and into Arlington Texas & Harrisburg PA. And most of those loads contained chemicals that go into Pepsi that are considered hazardous chemicals.

 

This thread reminds me of something I had and advise EVERY OTR general freight driver to find copy and place in their permit books, or buy it. The list of what is considered Hazmat and MORE important the quanity that once past requires hazmat placards. I once was loading and noticed 2 drums of hydrochloric acid being loaded. No mention of anything and at the time I did not hold a hazmat. I know 99% or more of the time nothing happens, however I am not wanting to be part of this if an accident happens. EVEN drivers that don't haul hazmat should know these chemicals in case some shipping clerk has the brains of a bird. <<has happened to me 3 times that I can remember. Yes you WILL be held responsible if caught!

 

You cannot have hazmat and food together.

However we have used reefer to keep hazmat warm in winter or vice versa in summer.

Once we hauled a split load and that was with a bulkhead in the middle with food in the front. That was a one time situation.

Just need a way to get those diamonds off of there when it's unloaded.