GazCaff
MB Enthusiast
I'm moving soon and so I borrowed one of the works vans to dump an old wardrobe that I didn't need anymore because it obviously wouldn't have fitted in my car even though it was dismantled.
I took our Transit Connect, which many of you will know is not a particularly large van, but plenty large enough for the 7 foot long sides of the wardrobe. I loaded up the van and set off to the local household recycling centre with a copy of my council tax bill to verify myself as a local resident.
When I got to the tip, I was driving up to the barrier when one of the workers dived out of the office and asked me what I was doing. I was expecting this to be honest and explained that I was dumping a wardrobe. He burbled something about me working for the Metro
and told me I had to fill out a permit.
So I'm in the office humoring this little Hitler (he's coming out with the classic lines, "I'm doing you a favour letting you in" etc) and filling in the waste permit, which consisted of writing my address, the vehicle registration and what I was dumping. When I filled the form in, he said I was only allowed to bring the van onto the site once a month. This leaves me in a bit of a fix for dumping my cooker, which I no longer need.
The irony of this was that while I was filling in the form, an estate car loaded to the roofline with rubbish and pulling a trailer and a large people carrier full of rubbish went past my little van. So it seems, you can bring a large vehicle into the tip and dump as much as you want, as long as it isn't a sign-written van!
When I eventually got to the skips and started dumping my wardrobe, I noticed a curious site. A van, owned by a second-hand shop nearby was parked up and one of the tip workers was loading salvaged items onto the van, including electrical items and would you believe clothing! Surely this isn't right?
It seems like I'm just having a moan, but the whole episode really frustrated me. It seems this tip workers like nothing more than to enforce ridiculous rules to justify their own existance and yet they openly abuse their position when it suits themselves.
rant ends.
I took our Transit Connect, which many of you will know is not a particularly large van, but plenty large enough for the 7 foot long sides of the wardrobe. I loaded up the van and set off to the local household recycling centre with a copy of my council tax bill to verify myself as a local resident.
When I got to the tip, I was driving up to the barrier when one of the workers dived out of the office and asked me what I was doing. I was expecting this to be honest and explained that I was dumping a wardrobe. He burbled something about me working for the Metro
and told me I had to fill out a permit. So I'm in the office humoring this little Hitler (he's coming out with the classic lines, "I'm doing you a favour letting you in" etc) and filling in the waste permit, which consisted of writing my address, the vehicle registration and what I was dumping. When I filled the form in, he said I was only allowed to bring the van onto the site once a month. This leaves me in a bit of a fix for dumping my cooker, which I no longer need.
The irony of this was that while I was filling in the form, an estate car loaded to the roofline with rubbish and pulling a trailer and a large people carrier full of rubbish went past my little van. So it seems, you can bring a large vehicle into the tip and dump as much as you want, as long as it isn't a sign-written van!
When I eventually got to the skips and started dumping my wardrobe, I noticed a curious site. A van, owned by a second-hand shop nearby was parked up and one of the tip workers was loading salvaged items onto the van, including electrical items and would you believe clothing! Surely this isn't right?
It seems like I'm just having a moan, but the whole episode really frustrated me. It seems this tip workers like nothing more than to enforce ridiculous rules to justify their own existance and yet they openly abuse their position when it suits themselves.
rant ends.
