Placarding.Transporting hazardous materials

In a nation that relies on transportation as heavily as the United States, the DOT assumes a variety of responsibilities. Principally, it strives to ensure transportation safety and protect consumer interests. One way it fulfills this mission is to require that cargo vessels are properly placarded and shipping papers properly filled out. Hazardous materials markings, labels, placards, and shipping papers serve to communicate the hazards of the materials being transported. Hazardous material communication ... 

Transporting hazardous materials of a type or quantity which requires placarding. 

Is of any size and transports hazardous materials of a type and quantity that require placarding or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin in 42 CFR Part 73. 

Day 46 from the date of notification if the new entrant transports hazardous materials in quantities requiring placarding or... 

Each carrier who transports hazardous materials in a vehicle that is marked or placarded must ... 

Is of any size and is used to transport hazardous materials requiring placarding rmder the Hazardous Materials Regulations (49 CFR Part 172, subpart F). 

Class C — This is a passenger or hazmat vehicle. This group includes any single vehicle or combination of vehicles that doesn t fall under Classes A or B but either is designed to transport 16 or more passengers (including the driver) or is required to be placarded for hazardous materials. 

Construction materials and equipment For drivers of commercial motor vehicles used primarily to transport construction materials and equipment within a 50 air-mile radius, any period of 7 or 8 consecutive days may end with the beginning of any off-duty period of 24 or more successive hours, rather than 34 hours. This exception does not apply to vehicles transporting hazardous materials r uiring placards. State laws are not preempted. ( 395.1 (m))... 

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 ... 

A motor carrier operating a commercial motor vehicle designed or used to transport hazardous materials for which placarding is required, after receiving a final unsatisfactory safety rating. 

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. 

Is of any size transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding. 

Transportation Dept. (DOT) placards for hazardous materials, retention.61... 

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