Dangerous goods courier, North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is on our doorstep — Harrogate, Skipton, York and Selby are all inside an hour or so of the Bradford yard. We carry Limited Quantity, Excepted Quantity and under-threshold consignments on a dedicated vehicle with the required transport document and extinguisher. Full-ADR placarded work needs certificates we do not hold, and we will tell you so on the first call.
What moves across North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire is less obviously industrial than the West Riding but the chemistry is there. The Selby and Knottingley corridor holds glass, chemical and process plants; York has pharmaceutical, food and laboratory activity; Harrogate and Knaresborough hold a cluster of analytical laboratories and speciality suppliers; and across the agricultural north of the county there is a steady movement of pesticides, veterinary products and fuel-related goods.
The pattern is small packaged consignments on a clock: reagents between a York lab and a Leeds analyser, Limited Quantity volumes of agricultural or veterinary chemistry out to a merchant, aerosols and sealants for a site. Legally simple with the right paperwork, and awkward to place because the networks refuse anything labelled.
How quickly we get there
Harrogate and Skipton are half an hour from us, York and Selby around the hour. For most of North Yorkshire a dangerous goods collection inside the hour is realistic.
Towns we collect from across North Yorkshire: York, Harrogate, Selby, Skipton, Northallerton, Knaresborough, Ripon, Thirsk, Scarborough, Malton, Tadcaster, Knottingley. 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 across North Yorkshire, 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 across North Yorkshire
Can you collect in Harrogate or York within the hour?
Usually yes. Harrogate is around thirty minutes from Bradford and York about an hour. We will confirm the actual window on the call rather than quote a blanket promise.
Do you carry veterinary or agricultural chemicals?
Where they are packaged within Limited Quantity volumes or under the threshold, yes. Send us the UN number and the quantity per package and we will confirm in writing.
Can you do a scheduled weekly run?
Yes. A fixed route with the same vehicle and driver is usually cheaper than ad-hoc and easier for your paperwork. Tell us the sites and the day and we will price the route.
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.