Domestic Shipping Markings

Domestic shipping markings provide pictorial descriptions of how a hazardous material should be handled while being transported. The following are examples of DOT markings:

Package Orientation (arrows)
Keep Away From Heat
Overpack
Fumigant Markings
Inhalation Hazard
Hot Material (with area in center of placard for the UN identification number)
Marine Pollutant
Excepted Quantity

A series of eight images starting with top left arrows indicating package orientation; a sun over a package indicating keep away from heat; an image of the word overpack indicating the consolidation of two or more packages; an image of a label with the word danger and a skull and crossbones and do not enter indicating fumigant marking; bottom left an image of the words inhalation hazard; an image of a diamond placard with the word HOT at the top indicating Hot material; an image of a placard with a dead fish indicating marine pollutant; and an image of a label with an encircled E at the top indicating excepted quantity.