r/hazmat • u/TheBackwars • Jun 05 '25

General Discussion What is this truck carrying?

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It doesn’t appear to have a license plate either 🤔

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u/observant302 Jun 05 '25

1824: sodium hydroxide, solution 1791: sodium hypochlorite 1017: chlorine 1760: ferrous chloride, solution Source: emergency response guidebook

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u/Recampb Jun 05 '25

This guy ERGs.

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u/observant302 Jun 05 '25

Well my book IS from 2020.......

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u/bsgman Jun 05 '25

All of ours are from 2020…

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u/observant302 Jun 05 '25

Keep one in my lunch box

. My people did the JJ Keller hazmat training and I came away from it even more confused than when I went in

Also keep one of each of our personal cars. Cuz I'm a big geek .....

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u/Krapopolis_King23 Jun 06 '25

One in the personal car. One in my patrol car. One in the wife’s car. And have the app. #NerdyLife

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u/nastronaut1 Jun 06 '25

Aren't they supposed to update every 4 years or something?

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u/mobius153 Jun 05 '25

They have a free app too.

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u/Uttuuku Jun 05 '25

I think the one I put in my car for funsies is from 2016. My work has an up to date erg. Mine is for when I'm bored at the train tracks and see an unfamiliar number.

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u/TheBackwars Jun 05 '25

Does that concoction correlate with a specific purpose? Like AG pesticide or industrial?

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u/bumblesski Jun 07 '25

Could be anything. Could be multiple deliveries in one truck. Could be for a dairy. A water treatment plant. A foundry, or aluminum recycler. A mine. Could be janitorial supplies, minus the chlorine gas... Could be for swimming pools.

The 1824 is frequently used as a pH balancer or for cleaning.

1791 is bleach. So cleaning or water treatment. It's also used in fracking and tons of other surprising places.

1017 is the dangerous one here. Chlorine gas. It normally has an inhalation hazard placard to go with it. Odd. It's mostly used for water treatment. But it is also used in purifying molten metals, like aluminum.

1760 can be many things. Ferric is one. It is used for water treatment. It can also be acidic soap mixes of various types. Delivered one recently that was sulfuric acid, with nitric acid and phosphuric acid, mixed with soapy stuff and dye.

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u/mobius153 Jun 05 '25

I'd say manufacturing, chemical processing of metals. Specifically the waste treatment side of things.

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u/observant302 Jun 05 '25

That I couldn't tell you.

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u/An-ke-War Jun 09 '25

I've seen these combination of chems in coca-clola bottling plants. Most beverages production facilities use these chems to wash and clean their system.

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u/VitalMaTThews Jun 05 '25

lol that’s crazy hauling a PIH with no license plate lol. I guess DOT officers don’t actually exist

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u/Mikashuki Jun 05 '25

Or the vehicle only requires one plate and they put it on the front like my state does for some stupid reason

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u/TheBackwars Jun 05 '25

Alabama if you want to look it up

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u/Mikashuki Jun 05 '25

Alabama only requires one plate on straight trucks, although it be on the rear, I bet it’s on the front of this truck if I had to take a gamble

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u/mobius153 Jun 05 '25

If you're real curious, the Emergency Response Guidebook is available for free as an app or pdf and contains info on all of the UN numbers. More often than not when we're driving somewhere I ask my wife to pull it up and look up a UN number.

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u/TheBackwars Jun 05 '25

What’s the wildest one you’ve seen?

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u/mobius153 Jun 05 '25

Class 1 (explosives), 4 (flammable solids), and 8 (corrosive) transported together. I forget what they were specifically but regs prohibit them being transported in the same vehicle. I called it in to highway patrol.

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u/Krapopolis_King23 Jun 06 '25

Ever seen a Walmart truck? Those things are fucking bombs on wheels. They will load it up with ammo, fertilizer, lithium batteries, camping propane canisters, tires, clothing, etc. All of it is under the legal declaration weight of each product. None of it needing markings due to quantity. And send it down the highway.

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u/mobius153 Jun 06 '25

Oh yeah, and they know full well what they're doing.

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u/Krapopolis_King23 Jun 06 '25

Yeah. They do. Absolutely insane to think about.

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u/Shad3m3d1c Jun 06 '25

1.4s, 4.1s and 8s CAN be transported together. The 4.1s and 8s just have to be segregated.

However, if it's anything other than those 3 SPECIFIC hazard classes, then no. They can not be transported together. 4.2s and 4.3s can't be with corrosives and 1.1-3 and 1.5 can't be transported with anything else.

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u/TheArcaneAuthor Jul 12 '25

Literally on the way to my hazmat tech class I saw a trailer filled with gel explosives. Probably on the way to a quarry so not that weird, but it was the first time I've seen explosives not on a military convoy.

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u/Itchy_Bar7061 Jun 05 '25

That’s obviously my mother-in-law! 😂

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u/Impressive_Change593 Jun 06 '25

install the ERG (Emergency Response Guide) app or install WISER. WISER has more info and also has the content from the ERG

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u/TheArcaneAuthor Jul 12 '25

WISER app is gone now. Might be able to find an old version and side load it, but it's gone from all the app stores