Side load garbage trucks

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: motor_oil_madman
The garbage company in my area recently got these automated trucks where two claws come down a track and pickup the can. This eliminates manual labor and jobs, but the issue is they don't pick up stuff put beside the trash can. Are you not supposed to put stuff next to the can anymore now?

We've had that here for several years. Everything goes in the cans, if it's too big, you call a services # and they schedule a curbside pickup. It actually works pretty well here. At least it's better then the old curbside program.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: KD0AXS
Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Probably 3-4 times as fast as manually doing it.


I don't know that it's really much if any faster. With the rear load trucks you would have one guy driving and two guys on the back of the truck. They can pick up trash from both sides of the street at the same time. The side load truck has to go up and down each street where the rear load truck only has to make one pass. The real advantage comes by only having to pay one person instead of 3. You also don't have the safety risk with guys riding on the outside of a moving truck and manually handling all that trash.


If you only need 1 / 3 the labor, isn't that 3x as fast for the same labor cost? (the truck is free relative to labor cost).

Ergonomics injury of lifting cans all day will take a toll on workers comp and the work they will do, eventually.

 

[CT Rob]

Some of our 1 arm bandits pick up close to 1000 stops a day,that's alot of stops.We use some for trash and some for recycling.