Fuel container on catwalk is it legal?

Not sure about legal but I'm sure it wouldn't last long there.

 

Not according to the safety man. It must be in your side box and placarded with a BOL. Our little 5 gallon external fuel tanks for the pump were placarded and we had a BOL in the truck papers for the fuel.

That may only be the carrier knee jerking too. Dunno.......but I'll betcha deputy dawg would nail you for a fuel can strapped to the catwalk.

JMO

 

If it's not paid freight, and secured correctly, I don't see the issue - would be no different to carrying fuel additives,oil etc . . . ?

 

Please show me where you'd placard 5 gallons of fuel?

 

When a private fleet pays you over 90 grand a year salary plus bennies and they say the 5 gallon fuel tank on the side of the transport is to be placarded then it's placarded and part of the pre trip. For 90 grand he can pretty well tell me anything and i'll do it.

I actually thought he was nuts on several issues over the years, but I didn't argue as long as he paid ....ya?

 

When I worked for this tanker company I had fuel in a container tied to the cat walk to clean the hose after unloading hot asphalt.I crossed the South Dakota scale twice a day and they never said anything.

 

Anything less than 1000 pounds I think doesn't need placard, it may be 100 pounds. Including weight of package. Not sure about rules of having it secured to the catwalk.

 

You have to have a DOT approved container and secure it on the cat walk.

A dot approved container has loops to protect the top/outlet of it if it falls off the truck.

If it is gas, then red, if it is diesel, then yellow.

If you go to the great state of CARB (aka California), I don't know what you need to be legal there.