§ 172.506 Providing and affixing placards: Highway.
Current through Sep 25, 2026 · Read all of Part 172
(a) Each person offering a motor carrier a hazardous material for transportation by highway shall provide to the motor carrier the required placards for the material being offered prior to or at the same time the material is offered for transportation, unless the carrier's motor vehicle is already placarded for the material as required by this subpart.
(1) No motor carrier may transport a hazardous material in a motor vehicle, unless the placards required for the hazardous material are affixed thereto as required by this subpart.
(2) [Reserved]
(b) [Reserved]
[Amdt. 172-29, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 1976, as amended by Amdt. 172-29A, 41 FR 40679, Sept. 20, 1976]
Interpretation letters (9)
- Clarification of Requirements to Provide Placards — PHMSA, Dec 9, 2016
- Person Responsible for Affixing Placards to Freight Containers and Aircraft Unit Load Devices Having a Capacity of 640 Cubic Feet or More — PHMSA, Aug 3, 2015
- Clarification of Placarding Responsibility — PHMSA, Sep 24, 2013
- Applicability of the HMR to the Removal of Placards — PHMSA, Apr 9, 2012
- Verification of Proper Placarding — PHMSA, Jun 16, 2006
- Placarding and Segregation Requirements — PHMSA, Nov 30, 2001
- Placarding Requirements for Vehicles — PHMSA, Sep 20, 2001
- Classification of Solvent-soaked Rags — PHMSA, Jul 2, 1993
- Responsibility of Interlining or Intermodal Carriers — PHMSA, Oct 29, 1992