The DOT requirements are complicated enough in themselves to warrant a specific guide. The specific purpose of these web pages is to guide you through the process of determining the shipping information required to ship a hazardous material.
How to Use These Pages:
The pages guide you through the logic inherent in the regulations (yes, there is some logic to it!) in making appropriate decisions and determinations. You will often be asked to answer a question by selecting yes or no; or from a list.
After each question, in addition to to the possible answers, you will also be supplied a short explanation, examples and additional information, some of which you may need to download if you do not already have it. Be sure to familiarize yourself with all of the information!
Offering a package for shipment over the road:
Since this is the most common scenario, we will deal with it first. You have a package (drum, box, jar, rolloff, dumpster, whatever) that you want to ship to another location and it has to use a public road to get there.
1. Are the contents listed by name in the DOT 49 CFR 172.101 Hazardous
Materials table?
Explanation: This is a list of commercial grade chemical substances, and other commonly transported products that are considered by DOT to be dangerous to person or property when transported.
Examples: a drum of Acetone purchased from JT Baker; a tanker of gasoline; a small jar of picric acid; signal cartridges; a cylinder of chlorine gas; cotton; paint; etc.
Reference: 49 CFR 172.200
Additional information: If you do not have a copy of the DOT HM Tables click here to download a current copy (free) in Adobe PDF format.
You answered that the package you have is not specifically identified by name in the HM 49 CFR 172.101 table.
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