Redwood City Recology Part 2: Garbage

This is the Redwood City Recology ACX Heil Durapack Python collecting trash on a Monday.
So the garbage man here, named Mike, used to do the route by my house back in the day! He transferred to Redwood City back when BFI AW had the contract. Back in 2011-ish, Recology won the contract and negotiated with the Teamsters to keep the drivers. Back when BFI collected here, they ran Rear Loaders and had an automated greens route. When Recology got the contract they bought these Pythons and automated the rest of the route.
It was interesting to hear from him that he is more tired at the end of the day driving these trucks than he was driving the rear loader. The fatigue from the shaking and sitting in the truck all day apparently is way harder on him than getting in and out of the RL. Plus he made a point to let me know that he preferred to be outside the truck interacting with the customers.

[@TheNVTrashMan]

Great part 2. Nice to see these trucks on little carts. Looks like people recycle more than they throw away. Those Toters look really cool. Interesting to hear that being in the truck makes him more tired.

[@shadofax96]

The thrashing around the Python does to the operator apparently is pretty extreme, but he said that sitting for 7 hours in this truck definitely makes him more tired AND exhausted because on a rear loader the motion keeps the blood flowing. Sitting in a cab all day really heightens the driver fatigue.

[@edrecologyyubasutterfan.0858]

Allied waste was there for a long time then in 2010 recology took over in san mateo

[@shadofax96]

You can still see evidence of that compliments of BFI green waste carts that were left over from the take over.

[@edrecologyyubasutterfan.0858]

maybe they still have there green waste carts from the allied waste company and being picked up by a recology truck who knows

[@shadofax96]

Oh they do, in Part 4 of this series you can see one of them being picked up by the greens truck.

[@westernoregongarbagetrucks6141]

So are you gonna videos of recycle and yard waste to

[@shadofax96]

I already got videos of those trucks, they are coming up. I spent all day with these trucks and walked over 10 miles total to get these videos. The recycle video is my favorite, lots of interaction with the driver.

[@westernoregongarbagetrucks6141]

+shadofax96 dang alright can't wait

[@RecologyChaser]

Bruh someone stole ur video clip here's the video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIinep9-a6-Vea8 and the timestamp for it is 0:19 and for your video it's 12:55

[@shadofax96]

Thank you for the heads up!

[@GarbageNation]

Sorry about that, I couldnt find any good videos of my company until I recorded.