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Right smack dab in the middle of the Inland Empire you’ll find a small rapid growing city called Menifee. Or what my friend calls it… Temecula… (it’s not). For well over a year now I’ve just been itching at filming in Menifee. However, I’ve wanted to film in this city way before I even started expanding my scouting’s. Why you ask?? Mainly because of four reasons. I have family that lives in Menifee, housing is cheap, WM is the franchise hauler and lastly… imagine passing through this city every time for years as you go up to LA or Palm Springs and you see these neighborhoods full with WM carts. After two failed attempts, one last October and one earlier this year in May, I finally managed to film in this city and piece together a pretty decent project.
Incorporated in 2008, Menifee is one of the newer cities in the Inland Empire. With a population pushing at 80,000 Menifee is growing by the day just like the other cities within the Inland Empire. With rapid development and the low housing market, it’s attracting many first time home buyers (like myself) new families, and as well as military family. It is said that Menifee is a very heavy military city due to the base that is located just 5 minutes up the 215.
I arrived shortly after 7am after making a pit stop in Murrieta (I got distracted when seeing trucks exiting the off ramp) and filmed my way through the morning and early afternoon before racing back down to San Diego where I had class and an exam later the same day. It worked out perfect.
I assumed that there had to be at least 10 trucks running throughout the city, I managed to get seven on film. One being an epic surprise as usual. You’ll see what it is if you watch till the end. What I didn’t know in my previous attempts was that Waste Management had changed the route plans several times before getting to this route plan. I assume it was because of the incorporation of the city because the original schedule was designed just the way WM does their unincorporated areas. After having a small conversation with one of the drivers I found out that Menifee is actually done predominately on one day. The other days the drivers are sent out to different parts of the county. So it’s nice knowing that they don’t really have a rotating crew like many cities do with their Monday-Friday pick up.
It was a very cold day, which was nice, I didn’t sweat my ass off like when I went to Murrieta. The video was edited and designed to showcase the trucks that I found in chronological order. Starting with the first truck at 7AM and ending with the last trucks at 1PM. You can see as the fog and overcast burn off later in the day. So I hope you like that little trick I learned in my Cinema class.
I hope you enjoy; a second part is to come in the near future as well as an individual video of one of the trucks featured in this video. Next stop in my Inland Empire excursion… The Dutch Village
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