Lithium batteries over 100Wh are regulated as dangerous goods, so whoever moves them needs to be ADR compliant, and so does everything about the job. We are, and we're happy to show you.
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There are plenty of couriers on the job apps who'll move a pallet of lithium batteries for less than we will, and some of them say they're ADR trained or audited. It's worth asking to see the proof, because the risk doesn't only sit with them.
Under ADR, you can only hand dangerous goods to a carrier that's been properly identified, and the Department for Transport's guidance says that means checking they're compliant, including their training and their drivers' ADR certificates.
A stopped van means a missed delivery and an awkward phone call to your customer, and we'd rather you never had to make it.
dangerous goods vehicles stopped for inspection has a breach of some kind, in the Health and Safety Executive's experience. Police and DVSA officers can stop the vehicle and its load going any further.
Source: HSE, Carriage of Dangerous Goods manualLithium ion batteries (UN 3480), and those packed with or fitted in equipment (UN 3481), don't get the limited or excepted quantity relief that some other dangerous goods do. A consignment usually falls into one of these three groups.
Small cells and batteries travel largely outside ADR, as long as they're packed and marked properly. Most phone and laptop batteries are here.
Some of the rules relax below set quantity limits, although plenty still apply.
Telecoms backup packs, energy storage units, e-bike batteries in bulk and most industrial batteries. This is where most of our battery work sits.
Not sure which applies? Send us the battery spec sheet and the quantity and we'll tell you.
A battery that's swollen, leaking, cracked, has overheated or can't be checked counts as damaged or defective under ADR special provision 376. It needs specific packaging and marking, and the transport document has to say it's being carried under special provision 376.
Let us know the condition of your batteries when you book. We carry damaged and defective batteries, as long as they're packed and marked to special provision 376 before we collect.
SPECIAL PROVISION 376If they're over 100Wh per battery or 20Wh per cell, or they're not packed to special provision 188, then yes. That covers most industrial, telecoms and energy storage batteries.
Yes. Let us know their condition when you book, because damaged batteries have to be packed differently.
The UN number, the Wh rating, how many there are and how they're packed, their condition, and the collection and delivery postcodes.
UN 3480 is lithium ion batteries on their own. UN 3481 is batteries packed with or contained in equipment. Both are regulated the same way under ADR, so it's worth telling us which one you've got when you book.
Yes, the sender is responsible for packing and marking the consignment correctly before it's collected. Send us photos or the battery spec sheet beforehand and we'll check it against the ADR requirements.
Often, yes, but some combinations need segregating from each other. Send us the UN numbers of everything in the load and we'll check it's compatible before we collect.
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