Australian Garbage Trucks Are Interesting! POV Drive & Garbage Pickup

[@robertfoskett1016]

When I was young the was a driver and two blokes hanging off the back of the truck who would empty the bins.

[@Chaos-np8xf]

In the more narrower roads of Europe, this is still a very common sight. Ive never seen a truck with the arm

[@DC3Refom]

yeah its good exercise too , its still done that way in the uk

[@Grumpy-sy7wr]

One point on the dual steer, is that you may only use the left steer side, when actually picking up bins. When commuting from depot to your pickup area etc, you must use the right side. The dual steer conversion is quite a simple setup, using standard parts from LHD vehicles, mounted in tandem with the truck's original build. Just a few hydraulic and electrical switchovers, and it works well.

[@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse]

its the same in north america but backwards

[@aussiegarbo752]

Yes this is indeed true!

[@andyossie]

so interesting to hear the truck from inside the cab instead of in the house nearby or on the street nearby. Every time I hear these trucks I start thinking "Oh...did someone put the bins out?" lol

[@6226superhurricane]

back when it was done by hand it used to be common for footy players to be garbos even professional players. the running and lifting was considered top notch training.

[@stevenlang7709]

When I did this work the guy working alongside me was a footy player. I was a skinny middle distance runner.

[@miniveedub]

And the bins weren’t as big either because pick up was twice weekly.

[@timjohnun4297]

I remember those days. Back then we didn't even have wheelie bins, we used to leave the bags on the footpath. Kids riding bikes would sometimes think it fun to kick the bags as they rode past. Putting a brick in the bag used to stop that ;)

[@miniveedub]

@@timjohnun4297 we never put out just the bags where we lived. First it was galvanised bins lined with newspaper and then in the seventies it became plastic bins lined with plastic bags. Much lighter for the garbos to lift and toss about. When I did home economics in high school we actually had a lesson on how to line a bin with newspaper.

[@automation7295]

In my country, garbage men still get out of the truck and drag the wheelie bins to the back of the truck.

[@Jus7aguy]

I remember when it was like 4 guys and a driver. In my country Australian Town it wasn't uncommon if you didn't have a fence, and you had forgotten to take the bins out the front, to see 2 guys sprint down the side of your house, run out with the bins you had in the back yard, and empty them into the truck before leaving them on your front footpath. (sidewalk for the yanks). That kind of extra service was why many of us also used to leave a few stubbies out for them come Christmas etc, I imagine after going through most of the town they had enough beers for a week long piss-up for New-Years.

[@arrestedsteve8276]

In the old days there was 3 men to do this job. The driver and 2 men on the back. The bins were smaller and it was loaded from the back. The guys on the back would run ahead, pick up a bin and the truck would catch up by the time they had the bin ready while the second guy would head to the next bin. Easier work now but it eliminated 2 jobs per truck. 66% out of work.

[@bigoz1977]

Working on the roads, I see these guys all the time. And I have to say for the huge size of them trucks, the drivers are awesome and can usually squeeze them between cars with an inch or two on either side 👏

[@frankmorris2603]

Just the sight of all the kicked over bins in night club precincts makes me think i wouldn't have the right mentality for this job. I might be a tad psycho doing this.

[@norsehall309]

G'day Ian, living in the outback we don't have garbage collection and it's the responsibility of each farm to take care of there Rubbish, we recycle ♻️ as much as we can and take it too the local town recycling centre each month, the rest each year l doze a 4 MTR X 20 MTR pit, at the end of the year crush it and back fill, no toxins of any kind go into that hole, cheers mate, Neil, 🤠.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Wow! 😂👍

[@norsehall309]

@@jenniferharrison8915 thanks for that, also l missed saying l have planted Trees on the old tip holes and they thrive some planted 20 years ago are spectacular, since l took over from Dad l have just about Clean the place of Rubbish, l want the land to be healthy for everyone, cheers.

[@bulletbullet7902]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Wow! 😂👍

[@jamesaustralian9829]

The semi autominous garbage truck with the arm, was invented in Australia, along with the hearing aid and wifi

[@RobB-vz2vo]

I remember as a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s in Sydney, our garbos used to have a low dump truck with a driver, two blokes running and throwing the metal cans up the the bloke riding the rubbish. They weren't slow with a lot of them being local rugby players getting some good core training along with their job.

[@waynec3563]

One day as I was walking to work that there was a parked car with a wheelie bin sat on top. What I think happened is that someone commuting to work parked their car in the neighbourhood, which was free parking, and then walked to their job. But they parked in front of the bin on garbage pickup day. So the garbage truck driver decided to teach the commuter a lesson!

[@BareFootDuck]

Very timely video, it's my bin day today in Oz. My old man did that back in the 60s/70s. Yep! Had to stop and get out for every bin, he lived to 89.

[@ozziemate]

Would love to see you do a comparison of our mining equipment to American mining equipment

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Yes, especially with Twiggy Forrest's inspiring dedication to new, efficient and creative, environment friendly, mining equipment! 😂👍

[@bulletbullet7902]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Wow! 😂👍

[@jamesaustralian9829]

​@@jenniferharrison8915which is in Africa, to offset emissions. No doubt paying some mob to say his clean and no Australian inspectors will go there to see if it's legit. See a real proper mining person, Gina Rinehart - she takes pride in hiring women, and giving to charities and women's clubs

[@herpderp7114]

These things usually have inline 6 engines. V8s are fairly rare in modern commercial trucks, even American ones.

[@MauiWauiPineappleExpress]

Yes inline 6 and even inline 5 are used.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

I remember back in the '60's rubbish trucks had 4 man teams, the trucks would have hessian/burlap bags off the sides of the trucks. 1 guy driving, 1 guy collecting the beer bottles and 2 guys running either side of the streets picking up and returning the metal bins as they went.

[@rebeccatompkins]

The red lid bins are general refuse, yellow lid is recycling and green lid for organic/food/garden waste.

[@joesky011]

Looking at the number of yellow number plates on the cars, I'd say this was in NSW. Most probably an outer Sydney suburb.

[@lesklower7281]

In Australia we call them garboligists

[@Gordon_L]

Mate of mine used to call himself an "aircraft condition technician" . He was a cleaner of aircraft at the airport .

[@lesklower7281]

@@Gordon_L You can take any job that is a cleaning sort of job and make it sound cool l was a courier l can't think of anything to make that sound glamorous

[@BassMatt1972]

2:34 There is also a yellow light on the top left of the dashboard that shows him when he is in-line with the bin

[@nitrobusa]

It’s the warning light to say the arm is out. Otherwise I’ll hit something

[@steved8610]

To shed light more light on the vehicle itself: It indeed made by Iveco. The model is called 'Acco'. These vehicles date back to the 1960, with them originally being built for use in the Australian Army. Iveco does not build them exactly like this anymore. Featured in the video is the original Acco fitted with a Euro 5 compliant Cummins ISL engine. The 'Acco' of now manufactured by Iveco is loosely based upon a totally different Iveco truck platform altogether. No longer the original Aussie workhorse it once was. Mounted onto the Acco truck is a Superior Pak brand fully automated side loader compactor body. These are designed and made in Bundaberg, Queensland. They feature a pendulum style compaction system, which is unique to Superior Pak. These vehicles are very easy to drive and operate. However in saying that, it does require a good level of finesse and attention to detail. One false move and something or someone may get damaged, injured or even killed. I hope this helps to give a better insight into these particular vehicles!

[@BarrySuridge]

The dual drive is standard as some routes require the truck to travel on the right side of the road.

[@nevilleapple629]

“Australian garbage trucks are interesting” your right never really thought about it.

[@goannaj3243]

There is a good Australian movie called Garbo's from 1992, about the old garbo's who emptied bins by had vs the new mechanized ones. It's a fun watch.

[@johncunningham4820]

Hi Ian . Those Iveco Garbage Trucks use a C-series Cummins 6 cylinder most of the time .

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

I drove one for a few years in Sydney, we had Volvo trucks which were beautiful to drive, it takes a while to get fast at it, I can tell this driver is very experienced very smooth and quick.

[@andrew_koala2974]

VOLVO not Volvo Pay attention to detail Make sure the brain sees what the eyes are actually looking at. Unfortunately - you were 'programmed' to be a ZOMBIE ZOMBIEs have eyes but cannot see - ears and cannot hear/ Learn for once that all CORPORATE {legal} names are always in the ALL CAPS iteration/ You would have observed that - had you been conscious and paying attention to detail The walking DEAD do not notice

[@Deceased858]

My partner used to be a garbologist to a town of 4200 people in the late 80’s. He ran behind the truck from 2am to 11am. The driver never got out of the truck. He did the whole town by himself.

[@Dan-rg7jj]

One thing I've noticed about Americans after subscribing to hundreds of channels is it's not reciprocated. They're just "so far away" from Australian things. Some things we do better and if they were here they would agree. But too many are on the "oh Australia nice country, kangaroos" instead of "oh let's subscribe to 100 Aussie channels and actually learn the things we are missing out on here and share the Australian ideas to make the US better and bring them back here".

[@ScaniaNorba]

Hello! I work as a garbage truck driver in Sweden. I drive both rearloader and sideloader trucks, Volvo and Scania. I have some pictures and videos of the trucks.

[@cadifan]

New Zealand garbage trucks are the same, auto trans and dual control. Legally the driver is supposed to drive to their work route in the RHD side and switch over to pick up, but they generally just keep driving from their 'working' seat.

[@systemsrenegade9888]

They have the camera in the chute to make sure there is no bodies or wrong garbage being dumped.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Seriously! 😨😱

[@bulletbullet7902]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Wow! 😂👍

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@bulletbullet7902 Where are all the bodies going then? 😫🤣

[@bulletbullet7902]

@@jenniferharrison8915 Your Joint!🤣🤣🤣

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@bulletbullet7902 🤧

[@bhsaproduction]

In the old days there was often a driver and 2 or 3 runners. The runners would pick up the bins and empty these into the back of the truck. Those bins were smaller, but larger families might have 2 or more bins. The newer trucks are all automatic, with just a driver. The arm on the side can reach in several feet to grab & hoist the bin into the rear - some models also have scales. The cameras face the rear, side and top of the truck for safety and monitor the type of rubbish in each load.

[@andrew_koala2974]

and larger families NOT but larger families But denotes a negative aspect and Denotes a positive and / or inclusive aspect Your English language skills and competency are poor. Undertake an extensive reading program to better educate yourself You can do it So the educated will not point out your errors and such If your errors are not highlighted and corrected - you will never know and never learn anything Ignore-ance is not desirable Good luck and good bye

[@IcanBePsycho]

When I use to work for a local council, the garbo trucks were always in the workshop.

[@miniveedub]

Back before these automated trucks there was a driver and two or three runners who picked up the bins and threw the contents into an area at the back of the truck. The truck drove slowly and the runners did all the work. The bins weren’t nearly as big because the service was twice weekly instead of once and there was less packaging back then. Every so often the truck would stop and machinery inside would come down and push all the accumulated rubbish to the front to make space for more rubbish to be thrown into the back.

[@Ressy66]

and you used to leave a few "tallies" out for the boys at Christmas time too, how they got any work done at that time of year was beyond me, but back then I was like 12 :)

[@noelwebb6843]

I worked as a runner & service was once a week, I don't know of anywhere that had twice a week service. However you could put out as many bins as you owned which were cheap & readily available

[@miniveedub]

@@noelwebb6843 inner city Sydney, Paddington, in the fifties and early sixties. Back then we had the postman twice a day as well. Morning and afternoon.

[@noelwebb6843]

@miniveedub ok thanks

[@stevenlang7709]

I had to run behind a truck picking up recycle bins back in the 90s a pretty good cardio workout. But cut my hand open by glass sticking out of the bottom of a bin

[@sparky5916]

I do fix this type of garbage trucks not really good on the smell side of things but u do get used it!!!lol

[@ClissaT]

Some also have GPS to note the loc of the rubbish incase someone always puts incorrect rubbish out. And also for bodies and such. So the GPS can be locked to the address.

[@PauloCosta-ji8kt]

Thanks for sharing this video 👍

[@DarkMatter1992]

Just imagine doing this in the days before power steering.

[@beyondbackwater4933]

I'd rather that than a manual transmission

[@donfinch862]

When I was a kid in the '70s, the garbos used to run up your drive - even into the back yard, grab the bin, run to the truck to empty it and run back up the drive to put your bin back. Later we had to put the bin near the street so they didn't have to run so far. One bloke driving and a couple on the ground. Fit buggers.

[@DarkMatter1992]

With a heavy clutch, oof.

[@brianjohnson5063]

I've only seen dual steering wheel Road sweepers from when I was a kid in the 70s and the toy version I had . UK refuse trucks only one steering wheel and have to get out to empty the wheelie bins still

[@whymeeveryone]

the bins were a lot smaller when they had to empty the bins by hand. There were at least three or four people to one truck unlike now there only one.

[@andrew_koala2974]

It should also be noted that these ' Garbage Collection ' operations are conducted day and night. In my location - for example, the collection is any time between 00:15 and 05:00 I have been known to forget and place the bin onto the street by midnight - and if I am lucky the collection truck has not been yet. I soon know when I see the neighbors bins have been emptied.

[@Quickstepz-OG]

Mines from 6am to the latest I've seen is 3pm. Must be a big ass area that driver does. So he must do my route first in morning or last in afternoon.

[@top40researcher31]

we have three bins red for rubbish,green for green waste and yellow for recycling in my town the rubbish goes out fortnightly same as the recycling the green waste goes out every week

[@nankervisj]

I was driving these pretty regularly until recently when I started a new line of work, it’s certainly a lot harder than it looks. Ewen there is a great driver but he’s also lucky that he’s got a nice open run for that video, a lot of the streets are completely filled with cars which makes it a nightmare. You have to learn to use your mirrors to see the bins pretty early on too unless you want to kill your neck. The trucks are quite solid, I drove a few of these E5 Accos but mostly the newer E6 model which has much better suspension and visibility but it is pretty hard on them because the whole day you’re either foot flat on the accelerator or flat on the brake, there’s not really any in between so the transmissions get a good workout. Once you learn the truck and the arm you can get pretty quick, I got up to around 230-240 bins an hour in my runs depending on how parked out they were. Still a long shot from the 130 bins we’d collect each day in my first waste job on a rear loader lol. A good bit of fun and certainly keeps you on your toes but it gets pretty draining at the same time.

[@Quickstepz-OG]

The amount of dumb ass Asians across the road from me, that park in front of my bins on bin day is a joke, every week they do it. 3 times the bin man has just beeped his horn at them for like a minute to move there car. They will pull up there even when he is like 5 houses away. and get out and go inside. The last time it happened must of been a new driver and left my bins full. I phone up and thought my bins where to heavy but they said couldn't get them due to cars. I went out kicked his windscreen in. Said if anyone of you family are friends park her anymore, Ima keep fucking your shit up so park at your own risk. Haven't had one parked there since lol. All of a sudden they parking up on thier lawn.

[@top40researcher31]

when i was growing up un the 1970's the garbage trucks had three people on duty one was the driver and you have to garbage handlers running up each side of the street emptying the garbage

[@top40researcher31]

the left hand drive is there for a special reason

[@MarionGarbo]

hi mate im am very very late to comment this is in NSW it is in an cleanaways area this is council called hornsby and truck is called euro 3 for short e3 and it was filmed by gopro 10

[@whymeeveryone]

I remember the days when the Garbo's trucks would can and the Garbos would empty the bins.

[@whymeeveryone]

would come

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Yeah no local trucks in Australia, all imports.

[@nathanhallisey441]

I am a medical waste driver in Australia.

[@top40researcher31]

as i am from wodonga on the the New South Wales and Victoria Border red bins are for the garbage yellow is for recyling and green is for green waste one week it be yellow bins and the week after it be garbage the green waste bins go out every week oh by the way my post is in the mail you be getting it soon i be looking forward seeing your response on your next mail time all the best

[@-PORK-CHOP-]

So does that meant the US garbage trucks have an additional steering wheel on the Right hand side ?

[@BareFootDuck]

🤔 Very interesting question.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Why are they so quiet and respectful in this video, but noisy on my street? Becoming a "garbologist" used to be a cool highpaid job choice for football players, surfers and musos! Automation has now taken those jobs, so no more muscle flex opps! Unit blocks are more difficult than this street!

[@taniaPBear]

There are 30 units in mine, but only a two block road frontage, the rest goes back. On 'recycle' weeks there's barely an inch between bins (and if you're not quick, you won't get yours out). I often wonder how the garbos get that shit done, but they always do. Credit to them.😄

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@taniaPBear Yes, true! I have also seen the red skip bins having to be dragged to the street and placed amid the normal sized ones, by the garbos! It's crazy, but they are well paid! 😨😉

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

All ivecos are 6 cylinder diesel

[@Garbo1434]

The cameras are for to see do the bins have the right thing in it I know why because I live in Australia

[@nitrobusa]

Look mar I’m famous 😂😂😂

[@CitywideGarbo]

No violet crumble in this one! 😂

[@aussiegarbo752]

Mate your famous!! Ha Ha!

[@bluckfox]

acco 's and iveco IWrocker just to let you know i m form Australia

[@module79l28]

They kind of "butchered" the name, it's an Iveco Acco. 4:34 - Definitely a diesel and definitely not a V8. Fun Fact, Ian: we also have RHD vehicles here in Portugal but with one steering wheel only. It's the street sweepers and since they work very close to the pavements/sidewalks, the driver needs to be on the right side of the cabin. I call them "the vacuum cleaners" because they suck leaves, garbage, dirt, etc from the streets to keep them clean and to avoid gutter clogging. 🙂

[@davidcruse6589]

You need to move here their always looking for garbo's and payed well

[@MauiWauiPineappleExpress]

I did this for years in the Netherlands with a Scania P340. It's fun but becomes very dull after some time!

[@JyveKilla]

garbo yes but say it aussie... gahbo

[@joaovitordejesusrocha7346]

You neeed tô se the Brazilian way tô take trash

[@erurainon6842]

Reaction channel done right. Most of them just play video and stare, which is nothing else than leeching orginal author.

[@andrew_koala2974]

Australian Garbage Trucks Are Interesting ? The Trucks are NOT Garbage Your title is incorrect - inaccurate and poor English CORRECT TITE to be Australian Garbage Collection Trucks Are Interesting! POV Drive & Garbage Pickup -- That is accurate - Specific - unambiguous and grammatically correct