Highway shipment

Carrier Responsibilities — In the case of highway shipments, the carrier is responsible for displaying the placards required for the hazardous materials being transported on the vehicle. Placards must be displayed before a loaded vehicle may be moved. 

The popular name of ton containers, or ton multi-unit tanks (TMU), is derived from their first use, which was to transport a ton of liquefied chlorine in each tank. TMU tanks are also authorized for the highway shipment of some compressed gases. These are not to be confused with large cylinders commonly called pigs, which are 3A and 3AA cylinders. These pigs would commonly be used for such products as anhydrous hydrogen chloride. 

Nitrogen trifiuoride is authorized for bulk highway shipment at high pressure (usually around 1450 psig or 10 000 kPa) in tube trailers. These trailers are made up of a number of large tubes, usually constructed to specification 3 AX or 3 A AX, which are manifolded together to a common header. Approved pressure relief devices and valves must be installed on each tube, and valves must be closed during transit. 

A hazardous waste transporter is any person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste within the United States, if such transportation requires a manifest. Off-site transportation of hazardous waste includes shipments from a hazardous waste generator s facility property to another facility for treatment, storage, or disposal. Regulated off-site transportation includes shipments of hazardous waste by air, rail, highway, or water. 

Sprecher still believed the political atmosphere would seriously influence the outcome. The Soviets had just cut off rail, highway, and barge shipments to Berlin. Everyone was jittery. Judge Hebert had sent his wife and children home. So had I. Still, I made a bet with Sprecher that at least Carl Krauch would be convicted of preparing an aggressive war. 

The basic purpose of HMTA is to ensure safe transportation of hazardous materials through the nation s highways, railways, and waterways. The basic theme of HMTA is to prevent any person from offering or accepting a hazardous material for transportation anywhere within this nation if that material is not properly classified, described, packaged, marked, labeled, and properly authorized for shipment pursuant to the regulatory requirements. 

By Truck. Motor vehicle shipment of hazardous materials is covered in Dept of Transportation Tariff No 11 (Ref 4). Motor vehicle shipment is more complex than rail shipment. A train is made up of many cars watched over by an engineer in front and caboose personnel behind. The engineer is in voice communication with the tower the railroad controls traffic over its route and provides trained inspectors. In contrast, each truck is an independent unit. It has no control over traffic on the public highway and the driver must cope with any situation which may arise. Hence, drivers of hazardous materials are given careful training and detailed instructions, and the vehicle is carefully inspected for safety (lights, brakes, etc) and compliance with local laws (wt limit, etc)... 

Terminated on line means (a) shipments terminated directly on respondent s road (b) shipments delivered to water lines and highway motor truck lines, except when identified as to receive further rail transportation (c) shipments which receive last line-haul on respondent s road, but are delivered to switching roads connected directly or indirectly with respondent s road (d) export traffic delivered to water carriers and shipments to outlying possessions of the United States. 

Parts 174-177 Shipment of Hazardous Waste by Rail, Air, Vessel, and Public Highway... 

Part 173 of the regulations, among other things, defines hazardous materials for transportation purposes and prescribes certain requirements to be observed in preparing them for shipment by air, highway, rail or water, or any combination of these modes of transportation. 

Violations of Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMRs) and Safety Permitting Regulations in Part 385, Subpart E All knowing violations of 49 U.S.C. chapter 51 or orders or regulations issued under the authority of that chapter applicable to the transport or shipment of hazardous materials by CMV on highways. 250 up to 50,000 for each violation. Each day of a continuing violation constitutes a separate offense. ... 

Vehicles and Shipments in Transit — Ihxring transit, the carrier must take all reasonable precautions to ensm e the safety of his/her load, the environment, and the general public. This means that vehicles stopped on a highway or shordder must be careftdly guarded, broken or leaking packages must be disposed of in the safest manner possible, and repairs or maintenance activities must be completed in accordance with the specified precautions. 

Intermodal transportation The use of more than one mode (for example rail and highway) to deliver a shipment. 

More than 800,000 hazardous material (hazmat) shipments occur daily in the United States, and the total volume of hazmat shipped annually is about 3.9 billion tons. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that approximately one truck in five on U.S. highways is carrying hazmat. Even though the safety record of hazmat transportation is very good, significant public concerns have been raised about the risks to people and the environment from hazmat shipments. 

In addition, we must specify the constraints on the size of a truckload shipment. From our company s standpoint as the shipper, will a truckload be too much for us to receive, violating our space constraints in the Atlanta RDC Is it possible that a truckload could be "too little" to ship, and would we have any recourse if that were the case These questions are perhaps best addressed in the process of solving a cost-based formulation of the decision, such as expression (3.12) from Chapter 3. From the perspective of the carrier that moves the goods, however, the issue is more rudimentary What restrictions are posed by the physical constraints on a truck trailer, and possibly also by the regulatory environment prescribed for moving goods on the federal and state highway systems ... 

General placarding requirements are described in 49 CFR 172.504. Placards are required at each end and on each side of a transport vehicle, bulk package, or freight container for hazardous materials in accordance with Table 1 of this section. Radioactive materials require Class 7 placards if package dose rates merit a Yellow-111 label, and for exclusive use LSA and SCO shipments. Note that placards for a highway route controlled quantity are of a different design than standard Class 7 placards. 

HRCQ shipments have special communication requirements including special placards (49 CFR 172.507) and the exclusive use-like instructions of 49 173.22(c). Highway routes are limited to preferred routes, and pre- and postshipment carrier reporting requirements apply as described in 49 CFR 397.101. 

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