Well said John!
As soon as you pull into a jobsite is when OSHA resumes jurisdiction, so if your tanks are in the horizontal position once you pull in to the site, they can fine you! Regradless what the state DOT may, or may not allow you to do with respect to the manner in which one may transport the tanks during transit...
IMHO, the best way to avoid any type of grief from whomever is to secure the tanks on your rig in the vertical position always, then you never have to worry as to whether or not you're still in compliance, or not - regardless of where your rig is located, and which governing body such as OSHA, or DOT has jurisdiction, because I would think that it would be quite the hassle to constantly be vigilant as well as to remember to shift the tanks to their appropriate positions depending where your rig is located just so that you can avoid being fined at all!!! ;-) I mean, it would be a heck of a lot easier for you to just secure them in the vertical position always ,and just sue whatever you need to in assisting you to eliminate the potential blind spot that it may or may not create which shouldn't be too difficult to do. ;-)
No need for everybody to get all so darn hostile at each other over this!!! I mean C'mon Guys!!! We're supposed to be supporting each other in here! Not looking to start tearing each others heads off their necks and ****ing down each other's bodies just because we may disagree with each other on how to solve problems or in helping each other out for crying out loud!!! I'm not saying that I'm completely innocent in here either, but we all need to chill out a bit on each other in here because the administrators and moderators are at their wits end, and are really starting to lose their patience which they have shown towards us many times already...
So, let's all at the very least, try our best to help make their lives just a little bit easier by showing a bit more mutual respect towards each other as part of a new years resolution that we can start practicing on each other effective immediately!!! What do you say guys??? Let's work together to stop all this bickering that become too regular in here altely... I know one thing is for sure!!! I'm going to do my level best to do my share in helping to achieve that goal before the new year even starts...
So please join this bandwagon and help out as well to achieve this mutual goal of making sure that we all keep our conversations in here at least, as civil as we possibly can because after all, the OTB&G is where we can settle our differences if the need should arise - CAPECHE??? and remember that even when we're in there, we need to have a sense of civility as well, but while we're in here, we need to keep our attitudes in the rated "G" format and occasionally in the "PG" format as well, or else the Moderator will not be a happy camper, and that will not be good for any of us especially if the administrator gets fed up as well!!! ;-)
Respectfully,
Henry