Overnight parking with Hazmat load

Yikes!
"Safe" is the last word that comes to mind when I think about the Gary T/A.

 

I assume they all are. Less disappointment.

 

no wonder he's on the road. geeze let the man live and breathe.

 

now now that little store across the street has some good fried catfish.

 

Oh ok. I was thinking he was loaded up with a fresh clock.

 

You can park pretty much anywhere you would park a normal load. As others said, parking on an off ramp or on the side of a street may not be the smartest idea. But any rest area, truck stop, walmart, lowes, etc. There is some rule that unattended hazmat freight must be in a gated area. But if you are in your truck than its not unattended. There are special rules for 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 explosives and radioactive I believe.

 

..1926.902(k)

No motor vehicle transporting explosives shall be left unattended.

[44 FR 8577, Feb. 9, 1979; 44 FR 20940, Apr. 6, 1979, as ammended at 58 FR 35311, June 30, 1993]

 

Only certain classes of explosives will be allowed to violate HOS to park in a safe haven. I believe 1, if I’m not mistaken. A scale house qualifies as a safe haven. Expect to be out of service there lol

 

Im not sure I want to let the spouse preplan a parking for hazmat. Even though she had hazmat on her CDL with mine back in the day when we teamed, Hazmat was the territory I claimed for myself. As far as trip planning is concerned.

We did not make a habit of hauling hazmat too often. But once in a while there is some placards going up onto the tractor and trailer among other things.

When apporaching a city or town you bypassed it. Usually there are for example here in Little Rock Signs that prohibited all Hamzmat on I-30 inside city liimits, that means I-440 for bypass from 30 south side to 40 east near gallowway as a example. You were allowed to take 40 straight across to access Okalhoma or from Oklahoma but not allowed to use I-30 for core downtown. You also had I-430 as a option on the west side to get to 30 west and south to texas. Somtimes you come up 31 off I-40 a while until highway 64 west through two towns, beebe and vilonia (Vilonia has a nice pretty bypass and he road completed between the two towns are wide, 4 lane divded now. Very pretty blacktop with more coming until the end of 2019. US 67 will be brought up to I-57 interstate code as I write this.

Hazmat is something special. I am happy to say that in my memory I have never splashed anything or spilled anything or damaged anything with it. The reason I don't keep it hazmat is because of one particularly bad human, a abusive dispatcher who could not STAND TO WAIT 40 stupid minutes as I bypass all of Baltimore on the South Keybridge on I-695 per laws instead of the tunnels. The abuses from him was more than enough to cause me to lose my temper for workplace violence, go tot he DMV, turn in my HAzmat and 10 minutes later I had a new CDL Stamped without that #### thing in sight anywhere.

The following morning Mr Abuser had load packet with his usual poranity and threats. I threw it back at him and then showed my CDL with no hazmat whatsover. I said to him I value my CDL and freedom way more than his abusive existance on earth towards me. And then to permanently #### about that crap. He turned a vareity of colors and then wiped a tear of all things mumbling about how i backstabbed him. I called BS on that we had 800 drivers in that city that day, half of home anyone of them he can call. As far as he was concerned he no longer mattered in my life.

I hate to be dificult writing about something that went down badly. But Ive been known for telling off important peacocks what they can do with their precious 40 #### minutes. more than once in my life time.

Lynchburg is the home of Liberty University Potentially tens of thousands of christian college students there by day in addition to their nomral K through 12 school system. You will find it to be a mountain town of some substance and size filled with families of all kinds. Possibly 50,000 or more in excess normal visitors there for school classes among other things every day there.

Your best best is to call the Lynchburg PD directly, be FRIENDLY and BE NICE saying you have a wonderful load scheduled to deliver there and because it's hazmat you do want it to be handled perfectly, could the PD at all be in a position to help you out a Little bit pretty please. You would be surprised what is possible when you ask nicely with very good intentions to do things right without anyone causing problems anywhere. And the food is to be remembered too.

I personally had a opportunity to meet the founder of Liberty long ago in person at his home however the friend I was with who was student there was not quite able to nail that meeting down just so. So we moved on. It's a wonderful little city. Awful lot of hills though. Be sure you have fuel all round.

 

My understanding is these are never hauled by solo drivers.