RE: Fed Ex Shipment

["Bruce Bugg" <obbugg@dmvs.ga.gov>]

No. 

 

Most carriers, by whatever mode, have long had certain commodities or classes they would refuse to carry. Many carriers will refuse items from "Table 1" of 49 CFR Part 172, Subpart F. (LTL Carriers such as Yellow, Roadway, Overnite, etc., largely refuse Division 1.1 - 1.3 explosives). It often has to do with insurance issues, cargo segregation requirements, driver training, and in the case of radioactive materials, whether they have the appropriate personnel monitoring systems in place to comply with health physics requirements.

 

In the case of FedEx, as someone else pointed out, it has to do now with "which FedEx."

 

FedEx Express is the "original" Federal Express, FedEx Ground was Roadway Package System, FedEx Freight was American Freightways, and FedEx Custom Critical was Roberts Express. Of the four, only the former and the latter, in my experience, ever accepted radioactive materials for transportation, or at least Yellow III radioactive.

 



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-----Original Message-----

From: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]On Behalf Of Rick Orthen

Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 08:23

To: 'Russ Johnson'; 'Mercado, Don'

Cc: 'radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu'

Subject: RE: Fed Ex Shipment







Hmm . . . so 49 CFR-compliant hazmat shipping is a refutable privilege and not a right?  Are we seeing the unfortunate effects of a broader, terrorism-related caution by these carriers?



 



Rick Orthen



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