[TheForge] Carring Propane in a car

[Jerry Frost]

There're a couple places you can ask. The DMV, local 
welding or propane supplier, Osha, FHWA, (they have 
plenty of info for transporting dangerous materials) 
local trucking company specializing in flamable 
materials.

I'd try DMV first, pick up the CDL manual and any 
hazmat manuals they have. They can direct you to 
specific info.

The danger for transporting propane in an enclosed 
space is leakage and potential explosion. Every welding 
shop has posters and "Fatalgrams" with pictures of 
vehicles destroyed by gas explosions. You can't tell 
what you're looking at in some of them the vehicle and 
even the building are so badly damaged.

Frosty
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From: "Ben Barrett" <stircrazyben at gmail.com>


> So is there a handy place to look up transport laws 
> across multiple
> states, for propane, acetylene, etc?
> (I've heard rumors that pressurized oxy is not as 
> regulated, dunno)
> And then, what laws come into effect when you go 
> inter-state?  Fed, or
> just the next state?
>
> I s'pose if you get hassled, you could park a block 
> or three away and
> walk up to the business with a hand-truck/dolly, what 
> would they have
> to say then?  I've not had to sign, but have been 
> cautious in my old
> sedan.... I treat that thing like a truck, but 
> haven't taken a sawzall
> to the roof yet!
> I always keep my bottle diagonal in back, so the 
> tanks are never
> "pointed" at the drivers seat.  Still need to make 
> some little jigs,
> thouh, to keep them from rolling around -- I've just 
> been stuffing
> cruft to hold them in place when I need a refill so 
> far.... and I
> always try to have the tank out & ready for the 
> refill/swap before the
> service guy comes around.  Haven't had to sign 
> anything in Oregon.  I
> started with small (B/40) oxy/acet tanks, thinking 
> they're handy, but
> am getting wise to the extra cost now, wow.  Those 
> little tanks feel
> more dangerous too (no caps, for one thing).
> Oh, and as for your block going boom, Marc, one tank 
> alone could do
> that, with [im]proper arrangements.... hard to say 
> what your
> collection is capable of.
>
> ben
>