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On Monday (11/25/13), I paid a visit to one of the coolest WM facilities in California - Compton Hauling. Many of you might have seen Bill and Zach's video of an ex-Western Waste Stagg ASL, which ran out of this yard. So you probably can guess that this yard has some really cool garbage trucks. Unfortunately those ex-Western Waste Staggs are no longer in operation, but I was very surprised to still see what this yard ran.
Since this is a smaller operation, this yard does not have very many trucks to begin with - between 50-60 trucks. So when I arrived at the yard, I was kind of surprised to see that none of the regular trucks were back at the yard yet. Last time I was here, most of the trucks were back around 2-3. This yard literally uses every single running truck out there in their operations. I did not see a single spare in the yard.
This yard used to be a former Western Waste yard - probably most visible with the trucks they ran in the past. Since Compton isn't the nicest area in the world, this yard never really got the best trucks running around. They did take delivery of one "Think Green, Think Clean" truck, but for the most part, this yard is run by LNG Autocar WX Amreps. Like I said, this yard sends out 99% of their fleet daily. So what I was left with was the scrap/spare line!
The trucks sitting in the scrap line were a surprise to me. I had no idea 98% of these trucks were going to be there. A couple of them aren't actually going to be scrapped yet. The coolest thing about the scrap line was that 90% of the trucks there were all inherited from a buyout, merge, etc. The only original Waste Management truck there I think was 101258. Every Peterbilt you see here is ex-Western Waste -- which you probably could tell from the orange paint peeking through. The two Amrep Octo ASLs you see at the beginning of the line are both ex-LA units. The McNeilus New-Century is ex-WMX. The STS is the only truck I'm that I'm not sure where it's from. On the other side of the line, the container truck is ex-Klistoff and Sons. The Volvo Amrep Octo FL is from a small company called Innovative that was based in Carson, CA. They only had three trucks. And the Volvo Wittke FL is from WMX I believe.
Many of you might now know this, but Compton's main operation in Dumpster repairs. This yard has a special truck (which you will see in the video) that goes around to sites all over Southern California and picks up old, rusted out Dumpsters. Then they take them over to this site, fix them up, repaint them, and send them back out. The process takes about 8 days, and the Dumpster shop has 8-10 guys working 10 hour shifts.
Also, on a side note, two of the Klistoff brothers are still working at the Compton Hauling yard. Hopefully one day I'll find them on route!
A BIG thank you goes out to every employee of Waste Management involved in my tour, especially Heros, the tour guide. He came in on his vacation to tour me around the facility and I really appreciate that. I'm looking forward to another adventure with him very soon! And of course, thank you to all Compton Hauling employees I met for being so friendly.
Enjoy, like, and/or favorite! I had a great day filming this, but it took some effort on both Waste Management's part and my part in order for this to happen. So PLEASE enjoy! Pictures will be up on Flickr soon.
Filmed with USAutos98.
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