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Originally Posted by jfman
I shipped a shock from the US to South America and they put that thing on a plane the next day no questions asked.
This is after declaring it was shock. No dangerous goods paperwork was involved.
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In your case, the cargo acceptance agent was sufficiently well educated to know that shock absorbers ("UN 3164, Articles, pressurized, hydraulic") are exempted from the requirement to complete and provide a DG declaration.
Cargo acceptance agents (the folks who work on the air cargo side of things) are required by law to have much more thorough training about DGRs than the passenger agents. Typically, a passenger agent gets about 2 hours of DG training, and a cargo acceptance agent gets a week of DG training.
The likelihood of problems at passenger check-in that I alluded to in my reply above is due to the probability that the passenger check-in agent will not be aware of the Section 8 exemption for UN 3164 and 8 other classifications.
Michael
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