Scary stuff out of Duchess County.
Anyone interested in starting a trash hauling business? The only requirements are a pulse & a truck….
From the poughkeepsiejournal.com (NY):
License is optional if you want to haul trash
For the last 21 months, 18-wheel tractor-trailers have regularly left Dutchess County’s trash-burning plant in the Town of Poughkeepsie filled with thousands of tons of ash hauled by a company without a county license to carry waste.
The case of the trucker, Riccelli Enterprises, is perhaps the most dramatic example of a Dutchess County waste hauling law that is poorly enforced by county solid waste officials, flouted by many carters and — in this instance — ignored even by the Dutchess County Resource Recovery Agency, the county’s chief waste manager, a Poughkeepsie Journal investigation of trash licensing found….
Troll the roads of Dutchess and you will see trucks and roll-off containers bearing the names of companies like CRP Sanitation, Marangi Disposal, AAA Carting and many others that aren’t on the county’s list of 14 licensed carters. Significantly, licensing procedures assure that haulers are well insured — including carrying liability protection for the county — and, moreover, that they undergo background checks to verify they have no links to organized crime. The Journal found no evidence of such ties, but did find:
-Dozens of unlicensed operators haul thousands of tons of waste in Dutchess each year without the requisite checks of their background and financing necessary to obtain a two-year haulers’ license….
