WHAT YOU “MAY” SHIP as Household Goods (HHG)

1. You may ship all personal property associated with the home and all personal effects belonging to you and your dependents on the effective date of your PCS orders. Also included are:
a. PBP&E needed and not needed for the performance of official duties at the next or a later destination. PBP&E that are needed are not calculated in the member’s weight allowance and therefore must be declared in MilMove or DPS and identified on the origin inventory as PBP&E.
b. Spare POV parts (e.g., car engine/transmission) not to exceed the member's administrative HHG weight allowance and a pickup tailgate when removed.
c. Integral or attached vehicle parts that must be removed due to their high vulnerability to pilferage or damage (e.g., seats, tops, winch, spare tires, portable auxiliary gasoline can(s), CD players, GPS systems, and miscellaneous associated hardware).
d. Consumable goods for a member ordered to locations listed in the JTR, Paragraph 052002, F.
e. A vehicle other than a POV (such as a motorcycle, moped, hang glider, golf cart, or snowmobile [and/or the associated trailer]).
f. A boat or personal watercraft (e.g., a jet ski, canoe, skiff, dinghy, scull, kayak, rowboat, sailboat, outboard/inboard motorboat) and/or the associated trailer.
g. Ultralight vehicles (defined in 14 Code of Federal Regulations Section (§) 103 as being single occupant, for recreation or sport purposes, weighing less than 155 pounds if unpowered or less than 254 pounds if powered, having a fuel capacity NTE 5 gallons, having an airspeed NTE 55 knots, and having a power-off stall speed NTE 24 knots).
h. A utility trailer, with or without a tilt bed, with a single axle, and an overall length of no more than 12 feet (from rear to trailer hitch), and no wider than 8 feet (outside tire to outside tire). Side rails/body no higher than 28 inches (unless detachable) and ramp/gate for the utility trailer no higher than 4 feet (unless detachable).
i. Government or military owned accountable Organizational Clothing and Individual Clothing property issued to the member by the Agency/Service for official use.

WHAT YOU “MAY NOT” SHIP as Household Goods (HHG)

1. The following items may not be shipped as HHG (includes, but not limited to):
a. Personal baggage when carried free on commercial transportation.
b. Automobiles, trucks, vans and similar motor vehicles, airplanes, mobile homes, camper trailers, horse trailers, and farming vehicles.
c. Live animals including birds, fish, and reptiles.
d. Articles that otherwise would qualify as HHG but are acquired after the PCS authorization/order effective date, except:
(1) Bona fide replacements for articles that have become inadequate, worn out, broken, or unserviceable on/after the PCS authorization/order effective date, but before the date the bulk of the HHG are released to the TO or TSP for transportation when purchased in the United States for transportation, to an OCONUS PDS with authorization/approval through the Secretarial Process (43 Comp. Gen. 514 (1964), or
(2) Replacement HHG items, in cases in which the original HHG shipment is destroyed or lost, through no fault of the member, during transportation incident to a change of TDY station or PDS (68 Comp. Gen. 143 (1988).
e. Cordwood and building materials.
f. HHG for resale, disposal, or commercial use.
g. Privately owned live ammunition.
h. Hazardous articles including explosives, flammable and corrosive materials, poisons, propane gas tanks.
2. Local laws or TSP regulations may prohibit commercial shipment of certain articles not listed above. Laws and regulations prohibit articles liable to impregnate or otherwise damage equipment or other property—for example, hazardous materials including explosives, flammable and corrosive materials, and poisons. Contact your TO if you have a question about any item refused for shipment by the TSP.
3. If you are not sure of an item, check with your TO for more details.