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What form does emergency response information have to take, and where does it have to be while you are driving?

1.Legibly printed in English, in hard copy on paper or in electronic format, available for use away from the package, and kept as shipping papers are so it is immediately accessibleCorrect answer
2.Legibly printed in English on paper only, because an electronic copy cannot be read once the vehicle loses power, and locked in the cab's document box until a responder actually asks to see it
3.In whatever form the carrier prefers, including a telephone number the driver can call to have the information read out, with nothing at all required to be carried aboard the vehicle itself
4.Printed in English and in the primary language of each state along the route, and stored with the vehicle registration and insurance papers rather than together with the shipping papers

Explanation

The information must be printed legibly in English, either in hard copy printed on paper or in electronic format, must be available for use away from the package containing the material, and a carrier must maintain it in the same manner prescribed for shipping papers, immediately accessible to the driver for use in the event of an incident. English is required but paper is not: the regulation names electronic format alongside hard copy, so an electronic document that is legible and accessible satisfies it. Available for use away from the package is the point of the form requirement, since information readable only by walking up to a burning trailer is information nobody will read. Where it is presented is open in the same way the medium is: the paragraph accepts it on a shipping paper, in a document other than a shipping paper that carries both the basic description and technical name of the material and the response information, or in a separate document that cross-references the description on the shipping paper, so a separate emergency response guidance document used that way is one permitted presentation rather than the required one. The wrong options each fail one of those elements, treating paper as the only permitted medium and then locking the document away, leaving nothing on the vehicle at all, or inventing a multi-language rule while moving the document away from the shipping papers.

Source: 49 CFR 172.602(b) and (c)(1)

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