Empty container with hazmat placarding

for the wrong placards, up to $5,000


for a placard that should NOT be on an empty trailer, i do not know, BUT it would NOT surprise me they get you on the "wrong placard" charges...

get caught on the lower deck of the GW Bridge, WITH a placarded load, its $10,000


http://hazmat.regscan.com/benefits.htm


http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety-security/hazmat/complyhmregs.htm

 

Just about anytime there is a hazmat violation your gonna pay and pay big..

 

$2,500 per placard if needed and not present or if displayed and not needed. However, there are extenuating circumstances: I dropped a hazmat load in Greeley, CO when it was -5 degrees F. The placards were stick-on with glue swiped over them. I couldn't peel them off even with a putty knife, duct tape froze before it could stick to the trl and rattle-canned paint would even freeze before sticking. I did not have a propane torch and don't like that method anyway. I took the trl to the yard in Denver for the shop to deal with it.

 

That might be extenuating circumstances to you, but whoever writes the ticket might just see it as easy money for the state

 

This is why I like placard holders. Cheap to buy and install. Don't have to worry about stick on placards that fall off or won't come off. I made a set of placard holders that insert into the stake pockets on my trailer. Pop them in, insert placard, remove when done.

 

*most* LS wagons have placard holders I use plexi-glass over the top of the placard so it stays in the holders....works pretty good

 

Yeah, they work great on a trailer but containers get stuck on ones and they are usually ones w/ HD adhesive.

Too bad they couldn't add a pull tab that would rip enough out to keep the driver out of trouble but that would temp every person walking by to tug on it and we would get tagged for not having a placard...can't win sometimes...