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So 15-16 years ago, back when garbage truck videos on KZbin was a niece thing and only a handful of close knit people put them up, I was driving in Portland, Oregon for a company called AGG. At one time I had close to 50 videos like this of various stops I took on route. We were a commercial only company who did Front Load and Roll Off and the largest privately owned hauler in Portland.
I took a lot of the videos when I was doing the downtown garbage route because Portland is very unique in how they do commercial. There are no alleys, most of my stops were pull outs with specialty bins that I had either pull through doorways and off curbs (and then lift them back up) or go underground in a man-sized elevator and send small bins up to empty. All of our trucks had adjustable forks and outside controls.
The company that I worked for found the clips on KZbin and forced me to delete them in front of them. I ended up losing the hard drive which had the originals and I will forever be grateful to Dejuan (@CoolHandMacc) who saved these and sent them to me. This is one of the best times of my life. A 23 yr old single guy who had the best job in the world doing what he loved.
Clip 1&2: Truck 205 a 2005 Autocar WX New Way Mammoth Front Loader. This was 1 stop that I did twice a week. They had a 4 yard in the garage at the bottom of the hill and then several compactors at the top. The first compactor was at the top of a VERY steep hill (can't really see it in the video) that if the brakes went out, the truck would roll all the way into the river!
Clip 3: This was Truck 206 a 2003 Mack MR STS Front Loader. We had 3 of these trucks, 2 on Pete 320's (204/207) and this Mack. The Mack was by far the worst driving truck of all and I think soured me on the cab design. To be fair, by the time I got around to driving it, it had been beaten and abused by all the previous drivers who didn't care about taking care of their equipment. It was slow and when it rained, was impossible to use the mirrors and the windshield wipers worked 1/2 the time.
I hope you enjoy the clips and let me know if you remember watching them back in the day!