TO BE HACKED OFF WITH COUNCIL EMPTYING DUSTBINS AT 3.45AM IN THE MORNING!!!!!

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Was woken at 3.45 this morning with the dust cart bleeping as it was reversing into the carpark of the office block at the back of my house. Then there was the shunting backwards and forwards trying to get in position to empty a large double blue bin.
Then the crashing of the bin being emptied and then the dustcart driving off.
All this at 3.45am in the morning!!![ANGRY]

FFS PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!

Hi - I had exactly this problem every Tuesday at 5.30am (reversing truck shouting 'THIS VEHICLE IS REVERSING! STAND CLEAR! BEEP BEEP BEEP!') and complained repeatedly to the council - they did absolutely nothing as you can imagine. Then one day I noticed a yellow sign on my street which says midnight - 9.00am 6.30pm - Midnight 5 tonne trucks and buses forbidden. So I ran the council again and told them they were breaking their own stupid rules and it stopped.
Check for signs!

Thanks babblington I will.

Err!!!!

That simply cannot be legal.

No!! that's awful

yanbu!

We used to have a milkman who would start his rounds at 3.30 during the summer. I know a mill van isn't niosy compared to a rubbish truck but even so.

We have skip trucks that start zooming up our road at between 6/6.30 a.m (we are in a low speed zone, allegedly) A neighbour did actually phone the number on the truck which invites you to comment re their driving!

you need to go on this thread

yanbu

write them a letter saying that a council rubbish truck has been making collections at 3.45am, you have been documenting the activity, this is a legal nuisance, and if they do not stop immediately you will be going to court to seek an injunction, which you will get, and they will have to pay all the costs of.

Is it a council rubbish truck? Commercial refuse collections are open to competition. In my town there are several operators so you may need to check the name of the firm.

Keep a diary and complain. Noise is an environmental health matter.

well I guess they can't do it at 3.45am in the afternoon
It is bloody ridiculous

never heard of them doing it that early in the morning i must say!

That's SHOCKING. I get well fooked off when they come at 6.30am!!!

Def complain. WE used to live in the city centre and for a while got woken up every morning at 5am by the lorry that collects the empty bottles from nearby pubs/clubs (I can sleep through most anything but this was LOUD). We and the neighbors complained to the company involved. Their argument was that they wanted to beat the traffic later in the day

So we then got onto environmental health at the council who set up some noise measuring equipment, found that noise levels did exceed whatever the stated limit is for night time activity and the company were told to hold off 'til 6am.

Blimey, and folks complain cos children are playing in their garden at 8 am (or 9.30 pm)!

YANBU btw.