Additional provisions for bulk

Extra conditions that apply when the goods are carried in bulk. These codes appear in Table A column 17; ADR sets them out in section 7.3.3 of ADR 2025 (ECE/TRANS/352). 12 codes are in use, 0 reviewed. Each meaning below is a paraphrase in FreightUtils' own words, not the official text.

• AP7 · 183 rows
  Bulk carriage is permitted only as a full load.
• AP6 · 57 rows
  Wooden or combustible bodies need an impermeable, combustion-resistant surfacing or sodium silicate coating; sheets impermeable and non-combustible.
• AP1 · 22 rows
  For VC bulk carriage, the vehicle or container needs a metal body, and any sheet fitted must be non-combustible.
• AP4 · 16 rows
  Closed vehicles or containers must have hermetically sealed filling and discharge openings, keeping gas in and moisture out.
• AP5 · 16 rows
  Cargo doors of closed vehicles or containers must carry a "WARNING NO VENTILATION OPEN WITH CAUTION" mark, letters ≥ 25 mm.
• AP3 · 11 rows
  Sheeted vehicles or containers only when the substance is in pieces, not powder, granules, dust or ash.
• AP2 · 5 rows
  For VC bulk carriage, the vehicle or container must be adequately ventilated.
• AP8 · 4 rows
  Bulk batteries: corrosion-resistant steel load compartment, not loaded above the walls; small plastics containers need a 0.8 m drop at -18 °C.
• AP9 · 4 rows
  Bulk allowed for solids averaging ≤ 1 000 mg/kg of the substance of this UN number, never above 10 000 mg/kg anywhere in the load.
• AP12 · 2 rows
  Asbestos waste may go in bulk inside a two-layer zipped "container-bag" in a rigid-walled metal compartment; mass ≤ 7 tonnes when double-bagged.
• AP10 · 1 row
  Leak-tight units or a leak-tight puncture-resistant liner, with absorbent for free liquid; 5.1 residues kept off wood and combustibles.
• AP11 · 1 row
  Sets the VC3 standards for molten aluminium (UN 3257) in vats: insulation ≤ 130 °C, steel vats tested at 4 bar, inspections, vehicles, driver training.