A Day in the Life of a Substitute Garbage Truck Driver

DISCLAIMER: This video and any statements made do not reflect the views of the City of Spearfish Municipal Government.
A tribute video to Glenn N (16 years-Retired), Dennis H, Joel J, and Travis M! The legends of the Solid Waste Department!

[@CoolHandMacc]

First things first, the engine sounds amazing! I liked seeing the commercial stops in the beginning. The City of Conyers, GA used to have 450 gallon cans at a lot of their commercial customers as well before Pratt took over and changed them out to front load dumpsters. I hope to see more garbage truck footage from you. Your videos rock!

[@lelandhanson605]

Thanks man! Glad you're enjoying them.

[@kertifiedsmaxka9213]

You should've continued this as a series man, lots of people would've loved to actually see what you do

[@lelandhanson605]

After seeing the spike in views, I may just do another. I'm just a temp driver so its few and far between when I'm out. Thanks for the mention, it's being considered!

[@lelandhanson605]

There is a 2nd video folks! Check out my page!

[@christianhinderlie6000]

Route complete!!! Ur good driver dude...and camera man. Hope u guys are union or have representation.

[@GunzelingGarbo102]

This truck looks great! Love the green colour!Awesome to see the system from an operators point of view. Nice video!

[@rlmcroberts]

My new roommate has this job. I wanted to see what he was complaining about everyday lol.

[@budredden818]

I start training Tuesday for this job in my city,nice video

[@lelandhanson605]

Good luck!

[@easton5700]

How's it going so far?

[@deztruespeed3148]

You did a great job my man 💯💯💪🏾👌

[@lelandhanson605]

Thank you. Appreciate it.

[@jamesgillis6759]

@@lelandhanson605 you do a great job 👏 Being a garbage collector is the dream job I'm going to do someday too by the way

[@lifepresent3183]

Well it seemed like an enjoyable watch to me sir. Thank you for the vid!

[@lelandhanson605]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@GarbageSean]

Love that engine sound from that truck! Didn't you say this one's a 2002 Sterling? What engine does it have? Please, if possible, do a super long video of just pure exhaust sound on this truck, with runs up and down through the gears, and collecting as well. Please leave the video completely unedited, I love hearing the raw sounds without any cuts. I'm a huge fan of garbage trucks, and I've always loved the sounds of them! Please let me know ASAP.

[@GarbageSean]

Also, when you upload it, please don't add any background music, let the engine do all the talking and singing, if you get what that means. Please let me know ASAP.

[@wayne9005]

The sterling I drove had a Mercedes in it, but that was a rear load

[@lifepresent3183]

Its a 2020 Mach 1 Mustang engine, can't you tell?

[@steelcityrailfan4808]

At 1:22 he said it had a Detroit

[@GarbageSean]

I actually think it has a C10 Cat.

[@stevek4449]

I drove a truck long haul for 26 years across the USA and some in Canada. thinking of going in to this line of work. couple questions. 1. how long did it take to get used to driving on the wrong side of the vehicle but still driving on the right side of the road? 2. When on "that" job as a regular, do you switch like doing dumpsters or roll offs? Or it is usually the same day to day?

[@lelandhanson605]

Driving on the wrong side is an easy adjustment. Might take a day to feel comfortable. Our organization does only the plastic dumpsters and garbage cans. Contractor services in the area do the roll-offs and anything else.

[@SydWestGarbo]

Hi mate, I’m in Australia we have similar trucks but not these good roaring trucks. What kind of bin is your favourite to collect like Garbage Recycle or greens

[@lelandhanson605]

I'm only a relief driver for our Solid Waste Department. I am full-time with our Streets Department. With that being said, I loathe the garbage business, so as far as having a favorite "anything" within that department. There is none. Everything about that business is a pain in my ass. But, the job has to be done.

[@SocalRefuseFilmer1548]

This video is great

[@lelandhanson605]

Thanks and thanks for watching and subscribing!

[@budredden818]

Is it easy to line up with the cans and how is it to operate the joy stick?

[@lelandhanson605]

Once you get the feel of seeing the garbage cans in the mirror, lining them up becomes no problem after a week. Operating the joy stick is very simple as well. There are 8 different positions the joy stick can be moved to. There is UP, DOWN, ARM IN, ARM OUT and then UP ARM OUT, DOWN ARM OUT and UP ARM IN, DOWN ARM IN. There is also a switch that controls your grab claw, which is either open or closed. The buttons on this particular joystick are to control WORK LIGHTS, GRAB CLAW GRAB STRENGTH, PACKER, and GARBAGE CAN SHAKER.

[@WesternGarbageTrucks]

Yes a condor sick

[@tonysyoutube146]

“ I forgot today was Friday” 4-5 people lol

[@lelandhanson605]

🙄 🤣

[@owenmoriva7753]

We need da hopper footage

[@lelandhanson605]

CHECK OUT THE NEWEST VIDEO! Your wish has been granted!

[@mcdoob]

Lol whole town forgot

[@jordanbass9167]

Do you have a GPS for your routes

[@lelandhanson605]

No GPS. Routes are small and easy to memorize. They are starting the planning to putting that system into place though.

[@dorkdorkerson3376]

GPS was the WORST thing to happen to our routes

[@bond1j89]

Angle for the dump could have been better. Maybe on the bottom of the door.

[@lelandhanson605]

Yeah, I missed a lot of a good angles due to me being a newbie and also my go pro mount options being weak. There were places that I just couldn't put the camera for the fear of the mount failing and losing the camera forever. I have since purchased more stable mounts, unfortunately I see no reason to make another garbage truck video.

[@patsmith378]

I am a bus driver, in fort Myers Florida I am so sick of the passengers. I have nice hours I start at 4:30 am done at 1:30 ish but I don’t make shit. Florida is low pay state I know the waste guys make way more then me. Thinking of applying

[@lelandhanson605]

Hauling garbage does sound more appealing then hauling people.

[@patsmith378]

@@lelandhanson605 have to ever dealt with bus people??? They are insane. It’s little old lady’s which I don’t mind ,and drug addicts and drunks all day every day.

[@patsmith378]

@@lelandhanson605 just punch in bus fights on here. There’s non stop stupid videos

[@Justin.Brown723]

How many cans do residential guys service a day?

[@lelandhanson605]

This particular route is about 500-600 cans a day. There are 2 other drivers and I would guess they do 200-500 depending on the day. Those 2 drivers do all the commercial cans as well.

[@michaelburt1370]

This is my backup plan in case I ever lose my job.

[@dorkdorkerson3376]

Your 300 grippers wont hold 90’s?

[@lelandhanson605]

Yeah they will. But they are very large grips because they handle up to 450's. You're asking for trouble using them on residential cans. We've had fences, buildings, and cars all damaged because of guys not switching between arms.

[@godngunclinger]

looks like the regular driver didn't sequence his rout. You had people running their cans from across the street thinking you'd already been by--hate it when that happens. You must not have 'Drive-Cam' in your trucks yet, no seat belt will get you popped with a three day suspension for violating a 'life critical' rule. You said you had to 'fish' a can out that morning, it must have been one of those 350 gallon pieces of $&*t I hate that style of arm for residential work , the 90° angle limits you to cans you can when around cars and other obstacles You don't have an OBU to show who's out and who's not out , you are on paper with your rout, not on the computer that will get you a lot of return trips. The good thing about that truck's design is it is a hydraulic ram lift as opposed to the hydraulic motor and chain that is powerless to pick up those over sized commercial cans That lady in the cul-d'-sac probably won't learn why you had to back into that driveway to pick up her can, her car was in the street Do the mechanics swap out the fingers on your gripper or do you have to do that? seems time consuming nice they put outside controls on that truck so you don't have to climb in and out --ok I have to ask, do you get a dollar more than regular rout drivers? and do you know the routs well enough to 'blow' their rout times out of the water if you want to? YES, I watched the whole video and see it took a lot of editing to make this ,, cool 🚛💨

[@justinamezcua]

Hi

[@lelandhanson605]

Hello!

[@nh8916]

Started at 3:30am😬? LoL How late do you usually work?

[@lelandhanson605]

Normal public works hours. 7:00A - 3:30P. Solid Waste guys can start as early as they want and they have 8 hours to finish that days route. 40 hours a week.

[@nh8916]

@@lelandhanson605 Oh ok that's cool! I'd like that schedule

[@ImAyBeast]

California we work 5:30am- 6:00pm usually lol 😂

[@nh8916]

@@ImAyBeast Haha that's what I was afraid of. Im at FedEx now and we're working around 11-12 hours a day too. With all these waste companies hiring I was looking into that with hopes of a more consistent schedule but not worth making a move if I still have to miss my kids stuff working 12 hour days lol.