Lithium batteries and hazmat...

You do not have a exemption from inspecting. IF you tried to ship one battery of that type in any situation such as US Postoffice, it is hazmat and refused. Same with shipping office, refused. It becomes a problem when you find you cannot ship them overseas either. That is a problem.

I suggest you stay out from under this load. It is a unnecessary headache to you. Or me rather. I would refuse it.

You already hold DOD so access is not a problem for you.

I'll look up lithium batteries for you.

 

Lithium Table

Assuming batteries by themselves in your case.

HazMat Search / Database – HazMat Tool

You have lithium battery of several kinds.

You probably wont know if it is sealed, ion and other combinations until you visually inspect the load itself. There are several diamonds affected depending on the exact battery that they want to load.

frankly, refuse this load and find another one less stressful. If i cannot determine which of several battery combinations that is being shipped in actual fact, I cannot help you. Here is a example.

UN 3480: Lithium ion batteries including lithium ion polymer batteries - Substance information – HazMat Tool

UN 3090: Lithium metal batteries including lithium alloy batteries - Substance information – HazMat Tool

And so on.

IF the batteries are with different equiptment such as say... Artillery Designators or some wild stuff who knows what to pack because the hazmat tool link I use generally does include listings for lithium this that and other.

That's why without precise information from your poor dispatcher, and until you are standing there on the dock eyeballing those #### rascals you wont be able to determine which exactly to put on that truck.

Some batteries are flat banned from plane, flat banned from ships and rail. And so on.

If the dispatcher protests, tell him the Military will be pleased to transport the stuff themselves. They can move a Army into battle with beans and bullets, they should already know by now how to move batteries into different places that need them.

 

BTW this battery prospect is a #### load lolz.

 

Im glad that's over with. It's late have a great day.

 

Ive done quite a bit of military stuff. Including one wild time in the 1994 where we were delivering war loads to the ports more or less. When the Korean Dear Leader had his fatal heart attack, the following day Dispatch had me on a bagged popcorn load by the box stacked to ceiling going to Meijers. BLEAH. Motivating. So NOT.... I knew I would change companies then. It was good, but like some women that too will change. HA.

 

There are two separate DOT placarding exceptions that would allow you to haul this shipment without placards or a hazmat endorsement (49 CFR 173.155 and 49 CFR 172.504).

To clarify, a placarding exception DOESN'T mean that the shipment is "not hazmat," it just means that the driver isn't required to hold a hazmat endorsement. Other rules of the hazardous materials regulations still apply. If the broker / shipper can't tell you the exact rules as to why it's "not hazmat," then you probably shouldn't take it.

*I've arranged over 23,000 shipments of batteries and battery parts.