Muriatic acid is one of the names for hydrochloric acid.
Nasty stuff to play with.

Is that normal? Not the reaction of the acid but someone just leaving it in the back of a truck like that?

No it is not normal. There should have been Dangerous Goods papers with this truck, and also placards on the truck showing what was being carried.

Looks like none of this was done. Hmmmmmmm.

Exactly Palupo. If it was marked properly they would have know what it was within minutes of arriving. It will be interesting to know what the penalties are. I know from the shipping / warehousing side they take TDG seriously. Does anyone know what ever happened with that truck that went off the road by the airport with unmarked dangerous goods last year?

I didn’t think that was right. I wonder if this was a stolen truck or something? I’d hate to think a company would so blatantly disregard the safety rules and regulations like that.

If they take it seriously in shipping he would of had papers, sadly they don’t they pass the onus to the trucker haul it or don’t !, DG testing is a at home open book test ??. When you read the complexities in the regs then have open book testing and work being done by min wage employees …. guess what happens. On a side note muriatic acid can be used to clean your driveway then hosed off, you can by it at any hardware store.

Any employer who values the safety of his employees (and whoever they may come in contact with, with the DGs) would never accept a delivery without the correct paperwork and placards. I understand there are customers that put it out there ‘we will call someone else to haul it if you don’t’ But Is it really worth the couple $$ you were going to make now?

Placards for dangerous goods often depend on the amount carried. Small amounts of several things don’t need placards.

It would be my assumption that the driver did have the correct documentation in and on the truck. Consider this, a truck carrying multiple tote tanks with different solutions in them, one ruptures and leaks for whatever reason. Who in their right mind is going to walk through some cloud of what can only be assumed to be poisonous or corrosive gas and pools of liquid to look through the back of the truck to determine what is leaking? First things first, identify the hazard while remaining safe, once that is done you can stop the leak and deal with the cleanup… If you run in there half cocked and without understanding the situation, people don’t go home at the end of the day.