Hazmat · Regulations and Responsibilities

You are picking up a placarded load and your vehicle is not already placarded for it. Who has to supply the placards, and by when?

1.The offeror must hand them to the carrier before or when the material is offered, and no carrier may transport the load without them affixedCorrect answer

2.The carrier must buy and stock its own placards, since both supplying them and affixing them fall to the carrier under the rules

3.Either party may supply them, and the vehicle may be driven as far as the first scale or terminal where a correct set can be obtained and fitted

4.The consignee supplies them on delivery, since placards exist to warn others while the load is being unloaded at its destination

Explanation

The person offering the material to the motor carrier has to provide the required placards, and the deadline is before or at the same time the material is offered for transportation. One exception sits in the same sentence: nothing need be provided if the carrier's vehicle already carries the placards that material requires, which is why the question specifies that yours does not. The duty then crosses over to the carrier, which may not transport the material in a motor vehicle at all unless the required placards are affixed to it. That split is the codified form of the division the manual draws between the shipper, who supplies placards along with the rest of the hazard communication, and the driver, who places them on the vehicle at loading when the load calls for them. The three wrong options each misassign one half of it, by loading both duties onto the carrier, by leaving the supply question open and treating a run to fetch placards as permitted, or by pushing the duty forward to the consignee at delivery.

Source: 49 CFR 172.506(a)

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