Thread: LPG a word of warning

Saw an email today where a worker carting a small lpg bottle on the back of a truck/ute securely fastened to the headboard has been fined $10,000 yes thats right 10,000 dollars for the hazardous substance sticker not being clearly visible...............

Now I dont know the situation and if the driver was being a prick or something but police could pay to exercise some caution here...........

Work ute?

Yup

Even still its not enough to warrant that carry on. Must be a lot more to it

LPG has to be over certain volume before its DG. How else do you get your BBQ bottle from the servo and back legally? What size was the cylinder? Same with petrol. I'd guess he had no MSDS either? Im carrying a little library around because of this.

Originally Posted by Gibo

Even still its not enough to warrant that carry on. Must be a lot more to it

One would think so... maybe he is fuckin the cops wife or something but even so...?

They want to be careful handing out those tickets if that is the new way to get revenue now everyone is too shit scared to get within 10kph of a posted limit.

A cops life would be worth a lot less than 10k to a large percentage of tradeys....just sayin.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

LPG has to be over certain volume before its DG. How else do you get your BBQ bottle from the servo and back legally? What size was the cylinder? Same with petrol. I'd guess he had no MSDS either? Im carrying a little library around because of this.

Nope its DG, need a licence to cart over a certain volume. So in a work truck I can cart a 9kg barby bottle but the dg sticker must be clearly visible and securarly retained.
Out of work I can stack my boot full of barby bottles good as gold.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Nope its DG, need a licence to cart over a certain volume. So in a work truck I can cart a 9kg barby bottle but the dg sticker must be clearly visible and securarly retained.
Out of work I can stack my boot full of barby bottles good as gold.

Pretty sure you've not go that one 100% right. How does what your doing at the time make LPG more or less dangerous.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Pretty sure you've not go that one 100% right. How does what your doing at the time make LPG more or less dangerous.

It doesnt, but being at work makes you liable for all sorts of shit.

All your leads and appliances tested and tagged at home? me neither.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

It doesnt, but being at work makes you liable for all sorts of shit.

All your leads and appliances tested and tagged at home? me neither.

Dare you then to drive your private vehicle past a mermaid with a trailer load of LPG bottles and no DG sticker.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

One would think so... maybe he is fuckin the cops wife or something but even so...?

They want to be careful handing out those tickets if that is the new way to get revenue now everyone is too shit scared to get within 10kph of a posted limit.

A cops life would be worth a lot less than 10k to a large percentage of tradeys....just sayin.

A cop can't issue a 10k ticket, someone is telling you porkies or omitting some very important parts of the story.

Originally Posted by Savage1

A cop can't issue a 10k ticket, someone is telling you porkies or omitting some very important parts of the story.

What is the limit a cop can issue?

No cause you don't have to tag leads in a non profit organisation! I carry a BIG bottle of LPG in my ute for my Bach on regular occasions, and oxy/Acetylene on as well! Have to keep it covered at all times, the H&S laws are bullshit, did a shut early this month, arrive at 7 am start work after all the bullshit talk at 9:30 after getting permits to work, have so much PPE on I can hardly walk. They had one of their worse shuts for serious harm accidents for quite a few yrs? Your to scared to fart in case it causes a hazardous dust storm! But hey it makes money for the Govt so may it long continue. Test tagging things like computers and printers to me is AGOOD money making exercise for me, but I've never found a faulty one in 7 yrs

LPG. 250L water capacity. Class 2.1. No placard required
factsheets68 dangerous-goods-tools-trade

Sounds like it was a commercial circumstance, so it doesn't fall within the rules of transporting DGs for domestic or recreational use.
They're probably talking about the actual label on the bottle rather than vehicle placarding.