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A shipper's certification normally appears on the shipping paper. For a hazardous material moving by motor vehicle, when is no certification required?

1.In a carrier-supplied cargo tank, or where the shipper hauls it as a private carrier, though hazardous waste is outside both and reshipped or transferred material is outside the secondCorrect answer
2.Whenever the carrier's own employees rather than the shipper's do the loading, whatever the material turns out to be, because the party that loads a package is the party best able to inspect it
3.Whenever the material is not in a quantity large enough to require placards on the vehicle, since the certification exists only to support the placarding decision and nothing else
4.Never, since every hazardous materials shipping paper carries a signed shipper's certification and the rules allow no exception of any kind for movement by highway

Explanation

Two exceptions exist for highway shipments, and both come fenced. No certification is required where the material travels in a cargo tank supplied by the carrier, or where the shipper moves it as a private carrier; but hazardous waste is carved out of both, and the private carrier branch does not cover a material that is going to be reshipped or handed to another carrier. The matching duty on the other side of the transaction confirms the shape of the rule, since an initial carrier may not accept a hazardous material unless the shipping paper bears a conforming certification, subject to those same carve-outs. The three wrong options each pick the wrong trigger: who did the loading, whether placards are required, or a blanket rule with no exceptions, when the real test is the kind of packaging and the carriage arrangement, with waste and onward transfer pulled back out.

Source: 49 CFR 172.204(b)(1)

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