North Central US | silagehauler - 1/4/2026 19:40
Humor me then.
I would put milk in the same category as say vegetable oil, UAN or RoundUp.. Not hazardous in the normal sense, but spill enough in the wrong place and somebody is in for a bad day.
From what I remember off the top of my head, from the book, mostly from the tanker section:
Cleanliness is extremely important, if not you have the ability to basically make a bioweapon.
Milk tankers do not have any bulk heads which makes them a hazard to drive due to sloshing
Milk is to be treated like a live load of livestock, or a failing refer trailer.
Unpasteurized Milk is to be treated like a biological hazard, for disease mitigation reasons. Dairy and other confinement operations are usually picky about bio security.
And similar to fertilizer and diesel, a spill will cause a clean up effort as a little won't really hurt anything but a few thousand gallons can cause an ecological headache.
So, no, while it is not placarded and doesn't usually require a DOT background check, not all hazardous loads do. Your semi load of urea has quite the potential, for example.
If you want more, most states' DOT websites have an electronic version of the CDL manual available at no cost. |
Truck lays over, spills milk
