1. A comprehensive solution for proper
hauling procedures for our hazardous
and non hazardous materials.
By Lee Rasmussen

2. Overview
To help better suit company needs of
safety and transportation by
regulating workloads in company
trucks.

3. Opportunity
•
The education provided with this
proposal would help teach store
management proper weight requirements
for our hazardous material loads.
• With this education we will show a
gradual decrease in penalties DOT fines
our company vehicles annually.

4. Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
• Many of our drivers do not have CDL’s
who drive our company trucks.
• Did you know as our company increases
we are obtaining larger jobs by the day.
• These jobs sometimes require loads of
paint and other chemicals of 6000+ lbs.

5. Hazardous Materials
• Many of our drivers hauling these loads
are also hauling flammable liquids at the
same amount of weight
• Under Federal DOT regulations, anyone
hauling federally classified hazardous
material loads must have a hazmat
endorsement and a CDL

6. Hazardous Materials
• When applied to a certain weight, these
materials require special placards and Bill
of Ladings as described in the DOT
materials handbook.
• Our company currently regulates 1000
lbs loads of hazardous materials

7. Truck Weight Limits
• Our current trucks are F-350 single cabs.
• The gross vehicle weight rating or
GVWR, maxes out at 14000 lbs.
• The trucks weight initially ranges around
8000 to 9000 lbs.

8. Truck Weight Limits
• For our big jobs we haul up to 6000+ lbs a
day.
• We overload our vehicles causing unsafe
driving situations for our employees.

9. Solution
• Hire CDL drivers with hazmat
endorsements and provide CDL and
hazardous materials training for full time
employees.
• Implement the low cost initiation of
placards on all of our vehicles that we
lease for our stores.
• The average cost of placarding a vehicle
is $95.80.

10. Solution
Average fine distributed by Department of
Transportation?

11. Solution
Civil
Criminal
Minimum
Individual
$250
$250,000
Maximum
Corporation
$55,000
$500,000

12. Solution
• Total Cost for placarding all vehicles in
the State of Florida: $8047.20
• Should we consider the option?

13. References
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (2014) How to Comply with Federal Hazardous
Materials
Regulations. Retrieved from: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safetysecurity/hazmat/complyhmregs.htm
SafetySupplyWarehouse.com (2014) Safety placards that comply with DOT. Retrieved from:
http://www.safetysupplywarehouse.com/DOT_Placards_Shipping_Labels_s/76.htm
Shwom, B., Snyder L.G.(2012). Business Communication: Polishing Your Personal Presence. (St
Petersburg College Edition). Boston: Pearson Learning Solutions.
Ford(2014). 2014 Super Duty Specifications. Retrieved from: http://www.ford.com/trucks/
superduty/specifications/payload/