Waste on an 0-licence
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AN APPEAL for a Salisbury, Wiltshire-based company to run its waste-collection vehicles on a restricted operator's-licence was allowed at the Transport Tribunal last week.
Wessex Waste Disposal had been refused a restricted licence after the Western Licensing Authority decided in September 1982 that the waste carried by the company was for hire or reward.
The company's work covers industrial waste and cesspits, and payment is for cleaning out the waste tanks not for transporting their contents, the company's solicitor told the Tribunal.
Once the sludge is on the lorry, it becomes the property of Wessex Waste Disposal, he said. It is up to the company what it does to the sludge.
If the company simply took sludge from one place to another and was paid for transport then obviously it would be operating for hire or reward, the solicitor said.
Much of the waste ends up on farmers' fields as it helps revitalise the land. Other waste, such as blood can be dried and then sold.
The Western LA had said that the waste carried was goods of some sort. It was carried by road and an element of hire or reward was present, the LA had told the company. Therefore a standard licence was required.
In allowing the appeal, the Tribunal said it would give its reasons in writing at a later date.