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Yep, well I didn't quote anything about putting something behind the placard or securing it with tape outside the borders.

The poster I quoted said he ordered some chinesium clear covers to put over top of the placards. That is a violation of FMCSA standards, personally I use clear tape behind the flimsy placards that shippers give. And check 'em every 200 miles on my in trip inspections.

 

That's an illegal placard from the get go. No hazard class number.

VA scales would bend you over gently, and go in dry if you drove through the scales like that.

 

It depends. You need to be over 4000 kg in non bulk packaging to need a number. You could get away without having the UN number and just the class. If it's bulk packaging then you need UN number.

 

I stand corrected, you Van guys taught me something today. I'm a tanker guy, so I'm always bulk and didn't even consider you guys hauling non bulk hazmat but not reportable in a tote in a trailer.

You learn something new everyday.

 

Nope. We ran clear tape right down the middle of the placard top to bottom left to right catching the cross bars of the placard holder itself. I have searched high and low how a clear plastic cover or clear plastic tape is a violation. Where is it in the regs?

 

Nope running clear tape down the outside of a placard holder violates FMCSA and DOT law in Many States.

Putting a clear cover overtop of the placard is a violation, because the placard must be visible, and not obstructed.

Schneider hashed it out with DOT back in 2016 about this issue, because some State DOT cops were being real buttholes about defining regulations (looking at you OH and CT)

https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/interp/15-0224

 

That letter is about using duct tape not clear tape. Again please show in the regs where a clear plastic cover or clear tape is a violation. State regs do not usurp federal regs. This is another “bunk must be made up with white sheets and made “ BS.

 

Not 100% on this but I believe fire extinguishers have to be on full or they have to be replaced. Even if u have a bigger one it still needs to be on full.

 

At my old flatbed job we had placard holders that were made from black tarp material with a clear window, had 4 eyelets to bungee them on all 4 sides of the load. Never once had any issue with anyone saying they couldn’t be covered with clear material.