MattJen
Elite Veteran
Location: uk
| After speaking to a Friend of mine who has his own logistics company,
i asked him about carrying fuel etc,
He said unless you are continually carrying around large qtys in your car all the time you dont need to do anything.
However if you have gas cannisters then a sticker that says compressed gas on board would be a good recommendation.
If you are a builder/engineer who uses welding equip that runs on gas, so have cannisters then you do have to by law have a sticker on your van that shows you carry compressed gas as you are classed as commercial vehicle.
My Sister is a first Aid instructor and has done work for London Ambulance and for the MOD, so she has 4 oxygen tanks on the car all the time, she got pulled over the by the police for a random vehicle search and was told as she carries gas tanks she should have a sticker which i think is Green that says compressed gas cylinders on Board.
the forum below asks a good question, if you do indeed have these sticker on your car and are involved in an RTA, and Emergency services are called, and they realise you have a volatile load would it delay a rescue if you were trapped ? or would it advise them so they could preventative measures and act accordingly.
Copied from another forum
http://www.lro.com/forum/viewtopic....der=asc&start=0
He was told that he should display warning stickers on his vehicles (here comes the good/bad/interesting bit)...
ON THE OUTSIDE ON THE BOOT LID.
Anyway, this chap went to his local fire station and asked about having to display warning signs on his vehicles
Now then, the chap was told that they would rather treat a vehicle with the extra caution that there are cylinders on board, even if on an occassion there were not, than get a nasty shock and find out the other way with no warning stickers and the other set of consequences.
The reason he said the sticker should be on the outside is because, in a fire, a warining window sticker or suction cup type on the inside would melt far quicker than if it was stuck to the outside of the vehicle giving longer time to see and react to the warning information.
my personal attitude is, what the hell, it is only a hobby and it is easy to become bogged down in what is right what isnt etc,
it seems the advice is, if you carry all the time, then put up a sticker, if not you are under no obligation to do so.
My shed has 80 litres of JET A1 and my summer house 20 500ml cans of Butane propane mix cannisters, unsure of the house insurance policy,  at least it would be a great firework display..
Matt
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