PITTSBURGH, Aug. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a professional truck driver for 30 years, I am very familiar with switching between different metal and sticker-style hazard placards for display on ...

Nearly every community, large and small, has hazardous materials transported through it or around it. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) mandates the creation of ...

Today, vehicles carrying hazardous materials are required by federal law to have placards — color-coded, diamond-shaped signs with numbers and symbols. In the event of an emergency, such as a fire, ...

Anyone hauling hazardous materials must display the proper informational placards on the outside of a trailer or truck body. In the event of an accident, the colorful placards’ code numbers, letters ...

Just take a drive on any major road in York County, and you can see trucks with special placards, indicating they are carrying a hazardous substance. It could be chemicals, radioactive materials, ...

On Aug. 7, 2020, following a several-month delay that was caused by the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced the publication of the 2020 Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG), ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — It will cost taxpayers $350,000 to get a commodity flow study done to measure the impact of hazardous material cargo traveling up and down Interstate 35 through the capital city, ...

A truck carrying volatile chemicals on the I-635 Loop, which is part of a designated hazardous material route for Dallas. Thousands of trucks loaded with hazardous materials rumble along Dallas-Fort ...

DALLAS COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Forty miles east of Dallas on Interstate 20, when the lights flash on the commercial motor vehicle inspection station sign, truck drivers are required to pull over.