Blasting caps or electric blasting caps in quantities not exceeding 1,000 caps may
also be loaded and transported with articles named in vertical and horizontal columns
3, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. Loading and transportation of blasting caps or electric blasting
caps except as prescribed in § 77.835, in any quantity, with articles named in vertical
or horizontal columns b, c, e, or f is prohibited.

Acid or other corrosive liquids, white label, must not be loaded above or adjacent
to flammable solids or oxidizing materials, yellow label, ammunition for cannon with
or without projectiles, or propellant explosive, except that shippers loading truckload
shipments of white label and yellow label packages may load such articles together
when it is known that the mixture of contents would not cause a dangerous evolution
of heat or gas.

Explosives, class A, and explosives, class B, must not be loaded or stored with
chemical ammunition containing incendiary charges or white phosphorus either with
or without bursting charges. Chemical ammunition of the same classification con-
taining incendiary charges or white phosphorus may be loaded and stored together.

d Bursters (explosive), boosters (explosive), or supplementary charges (explosive)
without detonators when shipped by, to or for the Departments of the Army, Navy,
[Order 28, 21 F. R. 9361, Nov. 30, 1956; 21 F. R. 9995, Dec. 15, 1956]

SUBPART D-VEHICLES AND SHIPMENT IN
TRANSIT; ACCIDENTS

NOTE: See 77.807 for emergency shipments.

§ 77.853 Transportation and delivery of shipments(a) No unnecessary delay in movement of shipments. All shipments of explosives or other dangerous articles shall be transported without unnecessary delay, from and including the time of commencement of the loading of the cargo until its final discharge at destination.

(b) Delivery at destination. Shipments of explosives and other dangerous articles which are refused by the consignees, or which can not be delivered within 48 hours after arrival at destination, must be promptly disposed of (1) by return to the shipper, if in proper shipping condition, or (2) by storage, provided a suitable storage place for such articles is available, or (3) by sale, or (4) when necessary to safety, by destruction: Provided, That charged electric batteries may be held for 30 days after arrival at destination, pending delivery or disposition.

(c) Delivery to authorized person, or magazine. Every shipment of dangerous explosives by motor vehicle shall be delivered only to someone authorized to receive it, except such explosives shipments as are placed in magazines which are immediately thereafter locked.

877.854 Disabled vehicles and broken or leaking packages; repairs. (See also Forbidden articles, § 77.821.)

(a) Care of lading, explosives or other dangerous articles. Whenever for any cause other than necessary traffic stops any motor vehicle transporting any explosive or other dangerous article is stopped upon the traveled portion of any highway or shoulder thereof, special care shall be taken to guard the vehicle and its load or to take such steps as may be necessary to provide against hazard. Special effort shall be made to remove the motor vehicle to a place where the hazards of the materials being transported may be provided against. See §§ 192.22 to 192.26 inclusive, of this chapter, for signals required to be displayed on the highway.

(b) Disposition of containers found broken or leaking in transit. When leaks occur in packages or containers during the course of transportation, subsequent to initial loading, disposition of such

package or container shall be made by the safest practical means afforded under paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of this section.

(c) Repairing packages. Packages may be repaired when safe and practicable, such repairing to be in accordance with the best and safest practice known and available.

(d) Transportation of repaired packages. Any package repaired in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (c) of this section, except as provided in §§ 77.855 (c), 77.856 (c), and 77.858 (b), may be transported to the nearest place at which it may safely be disposed of only in compliance with the following requirements:

(1) The package must be safe for transportation.

(2) The repair of the package must be adequate to prevent contamination of or hazardous admixture with other lading transported on the same motor vehicle therewith.

(3) If the carrier is not himself the shipper, the consignee's name and address must be plainly marked on the repaired package.

(e) Disposition of unsafe broken packages. In the event any leaking package or container cannot be safely and adequately repaired for transportation or transported, it shall be stored pending proper disposition in the safest and most expeditious manner possible.

(f) Stopped vehicles; other dangerous articles. Whenever any motor vehicle transporting flammable liquids, flammable solids, oxidizing materials, corrosive liquids, compressed gases, or poisons, is stopped for any cause other than necessary traffic stops upon the traveled portion of any highway, or a shoulder next thereto, the following requirements shall be complied with during the period of such stop:

(1) For motor vehicles other than cargo tank motor vehicles used for the transportation of flammable liquids or flammable compressed gases and not transporting explosives, class A or class B, flares (pot torches), fusees, red electric lanterns, red emergency reflectors, and red flags shall be displayed as required under §§ 192.22, 192.23, 192.24, and 192.26 of this chapter.

(2) For cargo tank motor vehicles used for the transportation of flammable