A visitor to this site asked whether lawn mowers and wheelchairs need to be considered as dangerous goods.
IMDG Code says “vehicles are self-propelled apparatus designed to carry one or more persons or goods. Examples of such vehicles are cars, motorcycles, scooters, three and four-wheeled vehicles or motorcycles, trucks, locomotives, bicycles (pedal cycles with a motor) and other vehicles of this type (e.g. self-balancing vehicles or vehicles not equipped with at least one seating position), wheelchairs, lawn tractors, self-propelled farming and construction equipment, boats and aircraft….equipment are lawnmowers, cleaning machines or model boats and model aircraft.
Above is not an exhaustive list. For consignments involving equipment, machinery, engine & vehicles powered by battery, internal combustion engines or hybrid vehicles look at the appropriate entries in IMDG Code and refer to special provisions.
Entries in IMDG Code
- 3166 VEHICLE, FLAMMABLE GAS POWERED or
- 3166 VEHICLE, FLAMMABLE LIQUID POWERED or
- 3166 VEHICLE, FUEL CELL, FLAMMABLE GAS POWERED or
- 3166 VEHICLE, FUEL CELL, FLAMMABLE LIQUID POWERED
- 3171 BATTERY-POWERED VEHICLE or
- 3171 BATTERY-POWERED EQUIPMENT
- 3530 ENGINE, INTERNAL COMBUSTION or
- 3530 MACHINERY, INTERNAL COMBUSTION
Further reading on classification of vehicles https://www.shashikallada.com/vehicles-un-3166-3171-imdg-code-39-18/