Tankers to stop double-shifting
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IN THE LIGHT of customers' complaints and evidence of day-and-night operating, the North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, granted seven more tankers on A licence for the carriage of industrial waste, to Sludge Disposal (Western) Ltd., Cheadle Hulme, in Manchester on Monday.
Following agreement with the two objectors—Pickfords Ltd. and A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd.—Sludge Disposal amended its application. The first application was for four tankers of 20+ tons, already in its possession, and the second application was reduced to three tankers to be acquired. The normal user of all these vehicles will be: "Sludge, liquid waste; within 100 miles of base."
Sludge Disposal's general manager, Mr. G. C. J. Sharp, undertook that the vehicles would be vacuum tankers of approximately 1,250ga1 capacity with doors at the rear to facilitate the job of scraping out the sludge; they would not deviate from this specification. He further declared that it was not the intention to carry normal liquids.
Mr. Sharp said that in addition to 13 vehicles on contract to the Shell Chemical Co., the firm had at present nine vehicles on A licence to carry sludge and liquid waste in the North and Scotland and one vehicle on B licence for maintenance purposes. Due to increasing demands, caused partly because of prosecutions by River Boards for illegal dumping of industrial waste in inland waterways, it was now having to double-shift. Six of the applied for vehicles would be used to stop this round-the-clock working and the seventh to assist with maintenance.
The 100-mile radius was required, said Mr. Sharp, because of the difficulty of finding suitable dumping sites for the waste.