We will assume you and anyone else reading this is not licensed to haul hazardous materials. I am not talking about a CDL with a haz mat endorsement; I am talking about the license the federal government gives a carrier that hauls hazardous materials. So since you are not licensed to haul hazardous materials you can not unless you have a exemption. One exemption you can use is materials of trade. The government allows you to haul limited quantities of hazardous materials to do your job or get things like gasoline home to use in your tractor or lawn mower.
We will stick with gasoline and diesel for this discussion because every different kind of hazardous materials has different limits.
For gasoline. You must haul gasoline in approved containers. They must be red; marked with the words gasoline and made of metal or plastic. They must be secured from movement and closed to prevent leaks.
Since gasoline is a packing group 2 material the container size is limited to 8 gallons each.
You are allowed to haul up to 440 pounds of all hazardous materials at one time. This includes the containers the hazardous materials are loaded in. So if you have a 100 pound oxygen cylinder and a 40 pound battery loaded on the same truck your gasoline would be limited to 300 pounds.
If you only have gasoline in 5 gallon containers you can haul 12 at one time. 5 gallons of gas weighs about 35 pounds. 440/35= 12.57
Things like the truck fuel tank and starter battery fall under perceived threat so they will not be counted. Perceived threat means a fire fighter is going to know every truck is going to have a fuel tank and battery so he already knows to adjust for this.
Since Diesel is a class 3 it should fall under the same rules but it does not. That is because diesel has a added exemption. Diesel is not regulated by the DOT in containers less than 119 gallons. This is how they get by putting diesel tanks in the bed of pickups.
Farmers have a added exemption but that is limited to agricultural products. Gasoline is not a agricultural product but Liquefied petroleum gas is.
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