July 2024 news

We are seeing more and more that existing Restricted O Licence holders that engage in businesses such as drainage, skip hire, retail and building are being asked to justify the type of licence they hold.

Since a Traffic Commissioner gave the following guidance at Public Inquiry:

“I find that whilst it states that it would only carry goods that have become its own (the result of the demolition activity it has carried out), the waste materials do not remain the operator’s own property for any longer than the period it takes to transport them to a third party’s waste transfer facility. Xxx xxx engages in no conversion of the materials, nor any processing of them itself, which might imply that a Restricted licence was suitable”

It is now common place that where a Restricted licence holder is considered to own property such as waste water, rubble, skip content etc for no longer than it takes to overload it at a waste transfer facility then this is considered “hire or reward”.

Operators engaging in such enterprise are being asked when a change to licence application is submitted to change their licence to a National Operator Licence. The same can also be said those operators who's licenses are coming up for renewal.