Howdy. I passed my ADR course a few weeks back and still waiting for my license card. Can I take ADR on board and just take me certificate?
Haizum74:
Howdy. I passed my ADR course a few weeks back and still waiting for my license card.
Hi Haizum74,
I suggest that you get in touch with the ADR provider who ran your course and exams, they can easily look into this for you and let you know the outcome.
Did you do your exams on paper, or did you use a computer for online exams?
Haizum74:
Can I take ADR on board and just take me certificate?
If by “ADR” you mean ‘dangerous goods’, then you can carry the following without an ADR Card, but please read carefully:
Excepted Quantities: = 1,000 packages. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with an exemption)
Limited Quantities: = Any amount. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with a different exemption)
Dangerous goods packaged in a normal way:
ADR TC 0 goods = None
ADR TC 1 goods = 20Kg/L
ADR TC 2 goods = 333Kg/L
ADR TC 3 goods = 1,000Kg/L
ADR TC 4 goods = Any amount
Dangerous goods carried in bulk (loose loaded, no packagings) = None.
Dangerous goods carried in a tanker = None.
The above is meant to be non-exhaustive and offered as a very rough guideline, because your company’s DGSA would be able to advise your boss according to the exact circumstances of any given job.
What did you mean when you said “certificate,” can you describe it please?
dieseldave:
Haizum74:
Howdy. I passed my ADR course a few weeks back and still waiting for my license card.Hi Haizum74,
I suggest that you get in touch with the ADR provider who ran your course and exams, they can easily look into this for you and let you know the outcome.
Did you do your exams on paper, or did you use a computer for online exams?
Haizum74:
Can I take ADR on board and just take me certificate?If by “ADR” you mean ‘dangerous goods’, then you can carry the following without an ADR Card, but please read carefully:
Excepted Quantities: = 1,000 packages. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with an exemption)
Limited Quantities: = Any amount. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with a different exemption)Dangerous goods packaged in a normal way:
ADR TC 0 goods = None
ADR TC 1 goods = 20Kg/L
ADR TC 2 goods = 333Kg/L
ADR TC 3 goods = 1,000Kg/L
ADR TC 4 goods = Any amountDangerous goods carried in bulk (loose loaded, no packagings) = None.
Dangerous goods carried in a tanker = None.The above is meant to be non-exhaustive and offered as a very rough guideline, because your company’s DGSA would be able to advise your boss according to the exact circumstances of any given job.
What did you mean when you said “certificate,” can you describe it please?
Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes it was by computer. They did say it couldd be delayed due to lockdown that I haven’t received it yet so wondered if still able to carry whereby I need to display orange plates
Haizum74:
dieseldave:
Haizum74:
Howdy. I passed my ADR course a few weeks back and still waiting for my license card.Hi Haizum74,
I suggest that you get in touch with the ADR provider who ran your course and exams, they can easily look into this for you and let you know the outcome.
Did you do your exams on paper, or did you use a computer for online exams?
Haizum74:
Can I take ADR on board and just take me certificate?If by “ADR” you mean ‘dangerous goods’, then you can carry the following without an ADR Card, but please read carefully:
Excepted Quantities: = 1,000 packages. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with an exemption)
Limited Quantities: = Any amount. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with a different exemption)Dangerous goods packaged in a normal way:
ADR TC 0 goods = None
ADR TC 1 goods = 20Kg/L
ADR TC 2 goods = 333Kg/L
ADR TC 3 goods = 1,000Kg/L
ADR TC 4 goods = Any amountDangerous goods carried in bulk (loose loaded, no packagings) = None.
Dangerous goods carried in a tanker = None.The above is meant to be non-exhaustive and offered as a very rough guideline, because your company’s DGSA would be able to advise your boss according to the exact circumstances of any given job.
What did you mean when you said “certificate,” can you describe it please?
Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes it was by computer. They did say it couldd be delayed due to lockdown that I haven’t received it yet so wondered if still able to carry whereby I need to display orange plates
Hi Haizum74,
Whilst you don’t have an ADR Card, you can carry packaged dangerous goods as long as you stick to the limits I gave in my post above. The requirement for orange plates (and all the other stuff) is triggered at the same time as the need for the ADR Card.
What did you mean when you said “certificate,” can you describe it please? 
dieseldave:
Haizum74:
dieseldave:
Haizum74:
Howdy. I passed my ADR course a few weeks back and still waiting for my license card.Hi Haizum74,
I suggest that you get in touch with the ADR provider who ran your course and exams, they can easily look into this for you and let you know the outcome.
Did you do your exams on paper, or did you use a computer for online exams?
Haizum74:
Can I take ADR on board and just take me certificate?If by “ADR” you mean ‘dangerous goods’, then you can carry the following without an ADR Card, but please read carefully:
Excepted Quantities: = 1,000 packages. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with an exemption)
Limited Quantities: = Any amount. (Packaged in a certain way to comply with a different exemption)Dangerous goods packaged in a normal way:
ADR TC 0 goods = None
ADR TC 1 goods = 20Kg/L
ADR TC 2 goods = 333Kg/L
ADR TC 3 goods = 1,000Kg/L
ADR TC 4 goods = Any amountDangerous goods carried in bulk (loose loaded, no packagings) = None.
Dangerous goods carried in a tanker = None.The above is meant to be non-exhaustive and offered as a very rough guideline, because your company’s DGSA would be able to advise your boss according to the exact circumstances of any given job.
What did you mean when you said “certificate,” can you describe it please?
Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes it was by computer. They did say it couldd be delayed due to lockdown that I haven’t received it yet so wondered if still able to carry whereby I need to display orange plates
Hi Haizum74,
Whilst you don’t have an ADR Card, you can carry packaged dangerous goods as long as you stick to the limits I gave in my post above. The requirement for orange plates (and all the other stuff) is triggered at the same time as the need for the ADR Card.
Just a ‘congrats you have passed joe bloggs adr course’ certificate.
‘certificate’ in the loosest terms so all the above has answered my question, thanks
Haizum74:
Just a ‘congrats you have passed joe bloggs adr course’ certificate.‘certificate’ in the loosest terms so all the above has answered my question, thanks
Hi Haizum74,
Given that you did your exams online, then the provider can tell you the same day whether you passed the exams.
The ‘certificate’ is just a keepsake, not valid for anything except to show that you’ve had the necessary ADR ‘awareness’ training that’s needed by anybody carrying dangerous goods as per my post above.
Dave’s ADR Trivia…
An ADR ‘awareness’ certificate doesn’t need to be carried on board a vehicle, but it should form part of the personnel file kept on you by your employer.
BTW, congratulations on the pass!! 
dieseldave:
Haizum74:
Just a ‘congrats you have passed joe bloggs adr course’ certificate.‘certificate’ in the loosest terms so all the above has answered my question, thanks
Hi Haizum74,
Given that you did your exams online, then the provider can tell you the same day whether you passed the exams.
The ‘certificate’ is just a keepsake, not valid for anything except to show that you’ve had the necessary ADR ‘awareness’ training that’s needed by anybody carrying dangerous goods as per my post above.
Dave’s ADR Trivia…
An ADR ‘awareness’ certificate doesn’t need to be carried on board a vehicle, but it should form part of the personnel file kept on you by your employer.
BTW, congratulations on the pass!!
Many thanks, yes they told me I had passed that day. I won’t say it was a walk in the park though, just getting me head round things is going to take time.
Your ADR card has to come from the SQA in Scotland, during the last lockdown they weren’t sending people into their offices so no cards were being sent out, the DfT created a temporary authorisation for drivers to carry until they received their card.
That TA expired in November and I haven’t heard about a replacement one and I haven’t heard anything about SQA and whether they are or aren’t “in the office”; going by Scotland’s tighter restrictions I would imagine they’re not at work.
Basically, if you haven’t got the card, don’t take any DGs beyond those amounts Dave has listed, it won’t be a good experience if you’re stopped by Plod or DVSA!