Avoid fecking tip

[Riley]

Went to drop my old dears broken tumble dryer at the tip today as it won't fit in her little motor.

Got it there and there were police, environmental agency and VOSA doing checks on vans and waste carried. F-ing joke!!!

I literally had the dryer and a broken microwave on board so hardly commercial waste and I had to sit in a bloody queue whilst PC plod looks my van over for safety and VOSA check my mot and insurance. Then some idiot from the environmental agency tells me I need all sort of permits for carrying and storing scrap. I did say that I never bring my works waste here and this was personal stuff but jobsworth wasn't interested. Made me an hour and a half late for my next job.

It it was a trap to quote Star Wars once in you weren't allowed to leave however cars came and went quite freely.

While all this is going on two cars come in that look like death traps, one with no brake lights, the other with a tax disc clearly out of date in. But no let's victimise the poor bloody van drivers. It's a conspiracy I tell you and total waste of bloody taxes.

Rant over. Just please all be wary if you should visit your local recycling centre in your van.

 

[Ermintrude]

I was stuck in census other day and it made me 50 odd mins late.

 

[Riley]

That sucks. Still, at least that's all traffic this just seemed a witch hunt

 

[Phil]

As this country has gone to the dogs (which it has long ago) then this is the kind of BS I expect, I wonder if that jobsworth needed a permit to have that tumble dryer removed from his arse??

No wonder people fly tip if you have to jump through so many red hoops to do the right thing.

 

[Riley]

Totally ridiculous about 20 of em in all just bimbling about doing not a lot.

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Madness

 

[Riley]

I wouldn't have cared quite so much if it was a active audience for cars and vans.

I mean seriously, what's stopping me buying a beaten up old estate and using it to dump "commercial waste" at the tip.

 

[Ray Stafford]

I mean seriously, what's stopping me buying a beaten up old estate and using it to dump "commercial waste" at the tip.

Nothing, except if you do it too often, they will clock you, and start hassling again.

 

[townfanjon]

little hitler's !!

 

[Leo21]

I wouldn't have cared quite so much if it was a active audience for cars and vans.

I mean seriously, what's stopping me buying a beaten up old estate and using it to dump "commercial waste" at the tip.

I bought one for my dad to use, £150 mondeo. He just tax and insures it.

 

[Riley]

It was when the EA fella started telling me I needed an exemption certificate to hold scrap in my lock up I glazed over

 

[Leo21]

It was when the EA fella started telling me I needed an exemption certificate to hold scrap in my lock up I glazed over

I sonder how he gets on telling that to the Eastern Europeans?

 

[Roger Welton]

I avoid this by sending the missus

 

[josh]

My dad bought a waste carriers licence which was £100 and something plus extra for an extra card for another vehicle, i completely disagree with it as i said to him, the waste is coming from a private property, you then put it in a private vehicle and take it to another privately owned property, be it your own place or the scrap mans, it has nothing to do with anyone, letalone the enviroment agency what you have in your van.

 

[Riley]

My dad bought a waste carriers licence which was £100 and something plus extra for an extra card for another vehicle, i completely disagree with it as i said to him, the waste is coming from a private property, you then put it in a private vehicle and take it to another privately owned property, be it your own place or the scrap mans, it has nothing to do with anyone, letalone the enviroment agency what you have in your van.

Totally agree mate. Sounds like they're clamping down on it in my area. Fly tipping here we come :smile:

 

[Ermintrude]

Just paid £120 to remove about 20 duotec boxes full of carp and about 50 elson boxes. Filled the blokes lwb transit tipper! With greedy boards obviously

 

[Riley]

I would reluctantly pay if it was even commercial waste but it wasn't

 

[josh]

Or as said, another vehicle, i know a electrician who took out a load of storage heaters,
he made many trips from the job back home, putting them in his little 4 track, then to the tip. lol

 

[Riley]

It is ridiculous that people should have to go to these lengths though

 

[Irish]

Why didn't you just leave it outside ? Pikeys woulda taken it in no time surely! Everytime I've got something like that I leave it outside and it never lasts long