Unless otherwise specified in tariffs making reference
hereto, the following articles of property will not be
accepted for transportation nor as premiums accompanying
other articles.
1. Ammunition, small arms and high explosive shells.
2. Animals, live, domestic or wild (including pets) or
ostriches.
3. Bank bills, coin or currency; deed, drafts, notes or
valuable papers of any kind; jewelery; postage stamps
or letters and packets of letters with or
without postage stamps affixed; precious metals or
articles manufactured therefrom; precious stones;
revenue stamps; or other articles of extraordinary
value.
4. Corpses or cremated remains.
5. Decorations, viz: bushes, Christmas trees, plants or
trees, natural, preserved.
6. Eggs, viz: Hatching.
7. Fireworks of any description.
8. Freight transported in bulk (Not packaged).
9. Fruit or Vegetables, viz: fresh.
10. Meats, fresh; poultry or rabbits, dressed.
11. Nursery stock.
12. Poultry or pigeons, live (including birds, chickens,
ducks, pheasants, turkeys, and any other fowl.
13. Silver articles or ware, sterling.
14. Livestock.
15. Except as otherwise provided herein or in tariffs
making reference hereto, articles tendered for
transportation will be refused for shipment unless in
such condition and so prepared for shipment as to
render transportation reasonably safe and practicable.
Provisions for the shipment of articles not enclosed in
containers does not obligate the carrier to accept an
article so offered for transportation when enclosure in
a container is reasonably necessary for protection and
safe transportation.
16. Carrier, except as provided in tariffs making reference
hereto, will not accept for transportation articles
which, because of their length, weight or bulk cannot
in carrier's judgment be safely stowed wholly within
the trailer or containers dimensions.
17. Except as provided in tariffs making reference hereto,
shipments requiring temperature control.
18. Shipments containing cargo likely to contaminate or
injure other cargo, including green salted hides.