Enforcement ...
Transportation of hazardous materials regulated by the US Department of Transportation (US DOT) is as complex as ever. No longer can the industry treat hazmat fines as just a cost of doing business; fines have increased, media scrutiny of accidents and releases has become heightened, and terrorism concerns surround each shipment.

HazMat Trucking Enforcer provides expert guidance for auditing trailer placarding & marking, load segregation, package labeling & marking, shipping papers, and motor cargo tanks. It also includes the North American Emergency Response Guide. All entries are based on the information required to be posted on a shippers manifest. Enter the UN number, poundage, and answer a few questions, and HazMat Trucking Enforcer tells you the information needed to make the load comply with the US DOT HazMat Regulations.

Enter an item on the add-item screen, then right-click, and you are presented with information choices such as auditing the shipping papers, package labels, or package markings, or viewing the complete Hazardous Material table entry, or listing the bulk motor cargo tanks authorized to carry the commodity. Many possible exceptions are alerted on, along with informational warnings. Quarterly updating of the integrated full-text regulations keeps you abreast of the latest changes.

New and Improved Shipping Paper Auditor
The new SPA uses a Yes/No response method that allows the system to automatically determine possible shipping paper violations. Once identified, the violations are automatically sent to the ASPEN interface module for final review prior to being added to the inspection. View our video tutorial or read more here.

Key Benefits:

Improve public safety and security
Using HazMat Trucking Enforcer helps improve public safety, by helping the inspector to perform more inspections. The US DOT estimates that over 50% of all hazardous material shipments contain errors.

Improve performance
A RegScan sponsored study found that inspectors using HazMat Trucking Enforcer found 86% more violations, while spending 1/3 less time to perform each inspection.

Interfaced to ASPEN
By using the violations pane inspectors can enter violations as they find them. Only violations recognized by ASPEN can be entered. Once all of the violations are entered, they are sent and appended to the currently open ASPEN inspection.

Reduce training costs
HazMat Trucking Enforcer makes education about both current and future regulations faster and easier. Instructors can create loads to illustrate specific issues, utilize the ‘save-load’ feature to save them, and then send these loads for evaluation by trainees. The ease of reviewing multiple placarding options and the built-in support for additional allowed placards encourage trainees to explore valid alternatives. (Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, but due to the complex nature of exemptions and individual situations, errors may occur; apply professional caution.)

Modular Design
Allows you to concentrate on specific sections of the regulations, such as placards, package labels, trailer marking or shipping papers. Moving from module to module makes it easy for enforcement officers to step through an inspection in a focused and orderly manner.

Results can be saved
Making it easy to show inspection results in court.

Electronic Regulatory Reference Guide
The full-text of regulations plus all graphics, images, and tables covering 49 CFR (100 to 180 and 200 - 399) are provided within the HazMat Regs information module. These regulations are updated quarterly, unlike the annual updates found with the CFR books. Hyperlinks and a full-text search engine provide quick access to the underlying regulations, making regulation checking quick and easy. Even the hard to find Motor Cargo Tank regulations from the 1960’s are included.

Regulatory checking is made easy during the data entry process through the use of hyperlinks. The auditors too make extensive use of hyperlinks to the regulations allowing you to verify exactly what you are seeing compared to the regulations.

Additional reference information, such as flash points and gallon to pounds conversion, are included. A select and then a right mouse click from the search pane or the truckload pane provides access to the complete 172.101 table entry for the selected commodity number. Also linked in is reference information on allowed motor cargo tanks, marine pollutants, and hazardous substance reporting. Ease of access to critical reference or regulatory information is a hallmark of HazMat Trucking Enforcer.

Optimized for Roadside Use
All entry is based on the fact that required information is either to be posted to the shippers’ manifest, or, is directly observable from looking at the load. Our system design strives to minimize the amount of information an inspector must enter.

Save Time and Improve Consistency
Using HazMat Trucking Enforces saves time for both the inspector and the trucker being inspected. Consistency improves because questions are not skipped, steps are not missed, and wrong lines are not accidentally referenced or followed in complex and hard-to-read tables.

Updated Quarterly

Videos
HTE Video Demonstration [watch] (37 minutes 28 seconds)
HTE Shipping Paper Auditor Overview [watch] (2 minutes 46 seconds)

Documentation/Tutorials (PDF)
HTE Tutorial
HTE Shipping Paper Auditor Tutorial
HTE Research Summary
Congressional Record mention of HTE (H7487)
New Features for Current Version

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Downloads
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