You arrive to pick up a hazmat load and notice the shipper's certification box on the shipping paper is blank. The dock supervisor is busy and says, 'Just sign it yourself so we can get you loaded.' What should you do?

49 CFR 172.204; 18 USC 1001 (false statements to the federal government); 49 USC 5124 (criminal penalties for knowing hazmat violations)

Signing someone else's required certification, even with good intentions to keep things moving, turns a simple paperwork gap into a falsification problem that's yours, not the shipper's. A 30-second ask for a real signature protects you from a much bigger problem down the road.