Customer Services

DANGEROUS GOODS HANDLING

Any Dangerous Goods transported by Cardinal must comply with all the provisions of the "Canadian Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act." Proper documentation must accompany the freight and a surcharge of $25.50 will be applied to each waybill.

Cardinal Couriers handles and delivers many dangerous goods, but we are not equipped to handle all dangerous goods and therefore Cardinal Couriers DOES NOT, under any circumstances, transport the following:

Class, Div and Description	Examples
Mass Explosion Hazard	Explosives,blasting, all types
Projection Hazard	Fireworks
Fire Hazard with Blast or Projection	Sodium picramate
No Mass Explosion Hazard and very low risk of initiation	Articles,explosive, extremely insensitive
Poison Gas	Sulphur dioxide
Corrosive Gas	Ammonia, anhydrous liquefied
Spontaneously Combustible Substances	Fish meal, unstablized
Water-Reactive Substances	Calcuim carbide
Organic Peroxides	Dibenzoyl peroxide
Radioactive Materials	Uranium hexafluoride fissile
Named Hazardous Wastes	Waste type 82 (sludge from spent pickle liquor)