Has HAZMAT but doesn't need PLACARDS???

Your safety directors two-cents worth here:

Wet batteries (secured in the trailer from movement); only hazardous material in the trailer, no other shipper's freight in the trailer. If these conditions are met then you can haul batteries without placarding nor have a hazardous material endorsement on your license. BUT if not...Haz-mat endorsement, placards are required.

ALSO drivers, make sure if you are hauling an excempt hazardous material load that your company insurance is set at a minimun of 1 million per incident. Standard non-hazardous material carriers is $750,000; per the regulations this is not enough insurance coverage and is a critical violation of FMCSA regulations.

 

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2009-title49-vol2/pdf/CFR-2009-title49-vol2-sec173-159.pdf

Wet-batteries

(e) When transported by highway or rail, electric storage batteries containing electrolyte or corrosive battery fluid are not subject to any other requirements of this subchapter, if all of the following are met:
(1) No other hazardous materials may be transported in the same vehicle;
(2) The batteries must be loaded or braced so as to prevent damage and short circuits in transit;
(3) Any other material loaded in the same vehicle must be blocked, braced, or otherwise secured to prevent contact with or damage to the batteries; and
(4) The transport vehicle may not carry material shipped by any person other than the shipper of the batteries.

or if your all really bored and want to know everything about hazardous material excemptions...try this:
http://www.setonresourcecenter.com/49CFR/Docs/wcd00002/wcd00276.asp everything you ever wanted to know about hazardous materials that are exempt is here.

 

Dogbreath
this is what i found:

http://hazmat.dot.gov/HMpubsreview/docs/shipBatt.pdf

 

Yes that is true...CellNet...same thing I wrote...LOL. If they met all those requirements PLUS others which are not written in that section of FMCSRs, then the driver is exempt from hazardous materials relating to batteries.

Other issues: a motor carrier still must comply with FMCSRs regarding insurance coverage of 1 million dollars per incident (required to haul any hazardous material regardless of size, quantity and distance). If stopped at a scale and the driver's insurance does not show that amount; your facing an immediate out-of-service violation, possible citation and the motor carrier will be citied for a critical violation (which may get FMCSA involvement: on-site review).

 

What about 550lb container of gelcoat? It is class 3 and its in a single container thats under 1001 lbs. Placard or not? Hazmat or no hazmat? What if its in multiple containers yet its under 1,001 lbs? How is "bulk" defined?

 

So your saying you need hazmat insurance to carry a gallon of fuel (class 3) in a container if your operating under commercial rules? Some guy goes through the scale house under a load and has a container of fuel strapped on his flatbed to run a forklift at his destination he has to have hazmat insurance or he is in deep poo? Makes no sense to me.

Did you mean you need 1million instead of the 750k minimum? I think I understand now.

 

over 119 gal requires a tank endorsement!

 

If it has HM labels, class 3 flammable, it is HM.
If total qty is less than 1,001 lbs, no placard required, but may be displayed.
A bulk package has a capacity over 119 gal. Yours is 55 gal drum?

 

Over 119 gal capacity is bulk pkg.
Over 1,000 gal capacity requires tank endorsement, including multiple bulk packages with total capacity over 1,000 gal.

 

Yes sir, 1 container at 550 pounds, which I suppose could be configured in multiple containers. So, since its less than 1,001 pounds and does not require a placard, yet it is class 3....? O my I am confused again. Thanks for taking the time scalemaster!