Motor carrier, placarding

Unless the cargo tank is already properly marked, a person offering a motor carrier a hazardous material for transportation in a cargo tank shall, prior to or at the time the material is offered for transportation, provide the motor carrier with the required identification numbers on placards or shall eiffix orange panels containing the required identification numbers, and a person offering a... 

Additional Requirements for Highway and Rail Transportation Persons offering a motor carrier a hazardous material for transportation by highway shall provide to the motor carrier the required placards for the... 

Persons offering a hazardous material for transportation by rail must affix the appropriate placards to the rail car containing the material, unless the placards already displayed on motor vehicles, transport containers, or portable tanks that are on a rail car comply with the rail placarding requirements. As with motor carriers, no rail carrier may accept a rail car containing a hazardous material for transportation unless the placards for the hazardous material are affixed thereto. 

A motor carrier operating a CMV in interstate commerce (except owners or operators of CMVs designed or used to transport placardable amounts of hazardous materials) after being placed out of service because of receiving a final unsatisfactory safety rating. 

Within 30 days after the motor carrier s request if the motor carrier transports materials in quantities requiring placarding or transports passengers by commercial motor vehicle and... 

The filing of a request for change of a proposed or final safety rating does not stay the 45-day period for motor carriers transporting passengers or hazardous materials in quantities requiring placarding. 

Marked or placarded vehicles containing Division 1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 (explosive) materials must be attended at all times by their drivers or some qualified representative of the motor carrier, except in situations where all the following are met ... 

A motor carrier transporting hazardous materials that require markings or placards must operate the vehicle over routes which do not go through or near heavily populated areas, places where crowds are assembled, tunnels, narrow streets, or alleys, except when ... 

MOTOR CARRIER INSTRUCTIONS The requirements in Part 383 apply to every driver who operates in intrastate, interstate, or foreign commerce and operates a vehicle weighing 26,001 pounds or more, can transport more than 15 people, or transports hazardous materials that require placarding. 

Operated by private and for-hire motor carriers transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding. 

Motor carriers operating vehicles transporting a placardable amount of hazardous materials, or... 

States that currently do not use the FMCSA s monitoring and enforcement tools, such as the SafeStat system, are not expected to use the new tools offered under CSA. As noted above, intrastate motor carriers hauling placarded hazmat are subject to the enforcement model and actions taken by the FMCSA. 

FMCSAhas also indicated that intrastate motor carriers hauhng placarded hazmat are subject to the enforcement model and FMCSA interventions. 

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration s criteria for hazardous materials (HM) carriers was modified in order to focus intervention resources on those carriers involved in the majority of placardable HM transport. The new inspection-based criteria include the following ... 

For motor carriers transporting hazardous materials in quantities requiring placarding or transporting passengers by CMV—45 days after the date of the notice. 

Within 30 days for motor carriers transporting passengers in CMVs or placardable quantities of hazardous materials. 

The carrier information contact requirements do not apply if the identification nrunber for each hazardous material contained within is marked on an orange panel, a placard, or a plain white square-on-point configuration displayed on the exterior of the motor vehicle or freight container. 

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