No haz endorsement?

I've got a friend who got nailed for not having haz endorsement and being overweight. Container full of batters. He hauls from the Savannah port. I believe.

 

Your hauling battery acid. I believe that's a haz material. Don't know if there's enough reportable to come in to play though. Guess it depends on also if the batteries are filled or empty. Motorcycle batteries are sold empty. Don't know the transportation process of other batteries.

Where's the rest of the forum to chime in???

 

if placarded then need hazmat...

 

Batteries hauled under the exemption found in 173.159a are exempt from the regulations. You do not need a haz mat endorsement to haul it. A haz mat endorsement is only required for haz mat that is required to be placarded.

Be especially vigilant regarding how your shipment is loaded. Many times I have stopped one of these shipments and when I do, I always look inside the trailer. Oftentimes, what I find are batteries that are fallen over and not secured. When this happens, the load looses it's exemption and now the driver is placed out of service for failing to have the proper license. The truck is placed out of service for no placards and often improper bills and other violations.

But if your load is in good shape, you should be fine.

 

They do not need placarding. There is an exemption for batteries....I don't know how to post the link...

 

BS.

Placarded vehicle, Placarded containers? Placarded anything? Pl;acarded bills of lading stamped HAZMAT in a particular spot?

Dam straight you need a Hazmat endorsement on your CDL. Your safety dept is full of it up to here. Im such surprised at such level of BS piled up from such a filthy safetly lazily not enforcing drivers to have a Hazmat to haul placaded trailers, containers, vehicles and bills stamped hazmat. Get a hazmat endorsement on that CDL to do this work.

Or...

Blow the #### whistle against your lazy no good safety before half a city gets killed from such laziness as failure to endorse a CDL properly for hazmat work. Im also presuming there is no training either for those told they don't need a Hazmat endorsement. Then they are going to take that tractor trailer off route into places banned against Hazmat for very good reasons and expose your company to liability that I consider essentially enough to break same from ever again hauling a load of anything in this industry.

How stupid must your collective safety department be? I know more on my fingers safety things than they all do. Who are they kidding? Placaded = hazmat = BOL stamped hazmat = Hazmat endorsement on a valid CDL. etc etc etc. There is also a Hazmat training cert card that must go with the driver along with the appropriate gear for personal safety when loading/unloading same.

I can rant and rant, but I wont. Ive already exploded on one silly poster today and that's enough for anyone. I'll hold my peace through the rest of this.

Run to your nearest hazmat qualified driver with that endorsement on his or her CDL and the necessary cert card to go with it showing completed training. I tell you one more thing. That cert card is not worth the paper it's stamped out of, not in light of a safety dept exposing themselves at being so lazy as not to enforcement properly within your company Hazmat endorsement CDL's for that kind of hauling.

 

I probably wasn't clear enough above.
If they meet and haul under the exemption, you do not need a haz mat endorsement. The load will not be placarded.
If the load is placarded, then you do need a haz mat endorsement.