Twitter<\/a> yesterday, GMP Traffic wrote: “A bin wagon was stopped by #CVU officers today. Sadly, the driver\u2019s driving credentials had already been taken out with the rubbish. No licence, no insurance or mot, and drug driving. We\u2019re all for reducing waste \u2014 but not this kind of cutting corners! #arrested.”<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764391685_337_0_Drug-driving-binman-caught-in-the-act.jpg\")
The bin wagon was pulled over by police(Image: X\/GMP Traffic)<\/p>\n
In a further post, the force confirmed the vehicle was not council-owned. They added: “Just to answer a few questions in one. It isn’t a council vehicle, I wouldn’t expect these low standards from them. And yes the company is in in our radar [sic] we understand it’s not all down to the driver alone. Although good job he’s off the road.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver was not licenced or insured, GMP said(Image: X\/GMP Traffic) A binman was caught by police with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,187,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-600602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-greater-manchester-police","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115631181699648363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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(Image: X\/GMP Traffic)<\/p>\n