Issue details

The Council provides a commercial cesspool collection service in and around the Borough of Dacorum. The collections from cesspools require a suitably adapted collection vehicle (tanker) to clear the tanks.

The Council requires a smaller sized tanker, due to the terrain of where these properties are built, these are mainly in rural areas as they are unable to be connected into the disposal network of sewers.

The delivery time or ‘lead time’ for all commercial vehicles is long at present owing to a combination of a backlog of orders built up during the pandemic, general supply chain problems and a particular issue with the supply of microchips. Specialist vehicles lead times are now in excess of 12 months.

The Waste Services team has been able to locate a new tanker which is available for delivery, and that would replace the current vehicle (T628) being used and no longer is fit for purpose.