Dangerous goods courier, Dudley
ADR-exempt, hazardous materials and chemical collections in and around Dudley
Dudley and the Black Country are around two hours from our Bradford yard, so a morning booking goes the same day. We carry Limited Quantity, Excepted Quantity and under-threshold loads on a dedicated vehicle with the transport document and extinguisher the regulations require. We hold no ADR vocational certificates and have no DGSA appointed, so a placarded full-ADR load is not ours to take — we say so on the first call rather than after your goods are on a van.
What moves in and around Dudley
The Black Country still does the work the name comes from. Dudley, Tipton, Cradley Heath and Brierley Hill hold hundreds of metal finishing shops, electroplaters, anodisers, galvanisers, drop forges and foundries, and every one of them uses corrosives, solvent degreasers, quench oils and surface-treatment chemistry.
The consignment profile is exactly what this service exists for: packaged, small, inside Limited Quantity volumes or under the 1.1.3.6 threshold, and needed today because a line is down or a batch is waiting. The networks refuse it on the label alone, which is why a Dudley plater ends up looking for a dedicated van at short notice.
How quickly we get there
Bradford to Dudley is roughly two hours down the M1 and M6. Booked in the morning it is a same-day job, run direct with no hub stop; ring at five and we will tell you honestly that first thing tomorrow is the realistic answer.
Towns we collect from in and around Dudley: Dudley, Tipton, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Netherton, Cradley Heath, Oldbury, Kingswinford, Sedgley. If your site is not on that list it is almost certainly still covered — the list is the main ones, not the limit.
What we will carry in and around Dudley, and what we will not
We carry dangerous goods that fall under Limited Quantity, Excepted Quantity or the ADR 1.1.3.6 threshold today. For a placarded full-ADR load we will tell you so and help you find a carrier who holds the certificate, rather than take the job and work it out later.
Most carriers will not put that in writing until you have already booked. We would rather lose the enquiry at the first phone call than collect a load we are not certificated to move, because the consequence of getting that wrong lands on your consignment note as well as our licence.
What we need from you before collection
- The UN number and proper shipping name — this settles almost everything else.
- The class and packing group.
- The quantity per inner package and the total on the consignment, because that is what decides whether it stays under the threshold.
- Whether the outer packaging is marked and in date, and whether the goods are new stock or waste.
- The collection site and whether it needs a permit or induction, so the driver arrives able to get in.
Send those five things and we will tell you in writing which route the consignment travels under before anything is picked up. If it turns out to need placards and a certificated driver, we will say so and help you place it elsewhere.
Questions we get from shippers in and around Dudley
Can you get plating chemistry across the Black Country the same day?
Within Limited Quantity volumes or under the threshold, yes — dedicated van, direct run. Bulk drums or IBCs needing placards are not work we can legally take.
Is Dudley a same-day run from Yorkshire?
Yes when it is booked in the morning. It is about two hours each way, so we will be straight with you about the cut-off.
Do you hold ADR certificates?
No. No ADR vocational training certificates and no DGSA appointed. Limited Quantity, Excepted Quantity and under-threshold loads only.
Send us the UN number and we will tell you how it travels
One call settles it. The UN number, the packing group and the quantity per package, and you will have our answer in writing before a vehicle is sent.