Dangerous goods courier, Leeds
ADR-exempt, hazardous materials and chemical collections in and around Leeds
We are twenty minutes from Leeds, so a dangerous goods collection from an LS postcode is normally with a vehicle inside the hour. We carry Limited Quantity, Excepted Quantity and under-threshold loads same day, 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 Leeds
Leeds does not look like chemical country until you drive through Hunslet and Cross Green. The industrial belt south and east of the centre holds printers, engineering shops, adhesive and coatings formulators, and the distribution depots that supply them, and the university and teaching hospitals add a steady flow of laboratory reagents and diagnostic material moving between sites.
Almost none of it needs a placarded vehicle. A drum of solvent-based adhesive, a pallet of corrosive cleaning concentrate, a box of aerosols for a shutdown, laboratory reagents inside Excepted Quantity limits — all legal on an ordinary van with the right paperwork, and all refused on sight by a pallet network whose tariff excludes anything with a UN number on the label. That refusal is why a Leeds formulator is ringing round at four in the afternoon.
How quickly we get there
Bradford to Leeds is twenty minutes. For LS1 through LS28 a collection inside the hour is the normal case, and we will tell you straight if a particular job cannot make it.
Towns we collect from in and around Leeds: Leeds city centre, Hunslet, Holbeck, Cross Green, Seacroft, Armley, Morley, Pudsey, Yeadon, Garforth, Rothwell, Horsforth. 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 Leeds, 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 Leeds
How quickly can you collect from an LS postcode?
Normally inside the hour. We are in Bradford BD6 and the Leeds industrial estates are a twenty to thirty minute run. Ring with the UN number, the packing group and the weight per package and we will confirm the window on that call.
Can you take a placarded load out of a Leeds chemical plant?
No. We hold no ADR vocational training certificates and have no Dangerous Goods Safety Adviser appointed, so a load needing orange plates and a certificated driver is not legal for us to carry. We will say so immediately and point you at a carrier who holds it.
Do you collect from Leeds hospitals and university labs?
Yes, where the consignment is packed to Excepted Quantity or Limited Quantity conditions, and subject to the site’s own access rules. Send us the UN numbers and the volume per inner and we will confirm in writing before collection.
What do you need before you collect?
The UN number, the proper shipping name, the class and packing group, and the quantity per package. For Limited Quantity work we also need confirmation that the inners are within the 3.4 volume limits and the outer is marked.
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.