Waste Management of Alameda County

Waste Management of Alameda County - the powerhouse of the Northern California market area. This was once a mega yard with hundreds of trucks and multiple shifts running through daily. Over the years, the work has dwindled down a bit but the yard is definitely decent sized still.
I try not to post other people's work on here but I stumbled upon a decent amount of archive footage from here and just had to share. Let me know if you guys enjoy this kind of stuff.
Highlights of the video:
(1:20) - Burgundy WMI MSL on semi-auto green waste
(1:40) - (L): Jumbo OnePass McNeilus Recycler; I'm almost positive these trucks were converted to Wittke/Leach front loaders later on in their life. (R): Valley Waste Management OnePass Kann FEL; as most of you know VWM's OnePass system was unique in that drivers had to dump each cart into the truck which is why this truck has no bucket on it
(1:53) - Another jumbo OnePass McNeilus Recycler
(3:31) - Oakland Scavenger Able Body MSL
(4:11) - Freightliner Condor Amrep Octo MSL
(4:15) - If I remember correctly, these CNG Volvo Wittkes were transfers from either Napa Garbage or Empire WM in Santa Rosa.
(4:18) - An ex-Green Valley Disposal (from San Jose) Freightliner Condor Wittke still running in the old white and green color scheme. When Green Valley shut down, a lot of the trucks, mostly Condors, were sent to yards across NorCal. A lot of the Freightliner Condors that were running in recent years came from San Jose so its neat to see one documented in the white before being repainted
(4:29) - OnePass Kann with WMAC's iconic "WM" grille replacement
(6:49) - Another VWM OnePass Kann dumping out
(6:59) - SalvageSale throwback photos; notice the ex-USA Waste Amrep Octo FEL and POD transporter
(7:58) - WMS Heil POD sitting in the Oakland yard, and the bodies/trailer can be seen at (8:03)
(8:06) - Oakland Scavenger Newspapers Find
All credit for the clips/video are below:
-Alameda County Waste Management Authority
-ABC7 News Outlet
-SalvageSale

[@kenwright5718]

I worked for Oakland Scavenger/WMX-WM for 30 years and can answer any questions you have about them. I saw a few bonus trucks from USA Waste in the yard which purchased WMX in 1999 and changed the name to WM, thankfully they did not keep the USA puke green colors. Thank You for the great memories.

[@WMAC_Master]

you know anything about WMAC's cart buying history? like what kind of carts did they buy back then?

[@kenwright5718]

@@WMAC_Master I have no idea what brand of carts used, the pictures of the carts and closed landfill was used by East Bay Disposal and a company owned by Oakland Scavenger Co.

[@WMAC_Master]

@@kenwright5718 i think the carts in there were from san ramon. I check google earth pro's historical arial images and it showed in april 2019, semis unloading tons of carts

[@WMmaster626]

Thanks Ken!! Always love hearing from the old burgundy veterans! Lot of interesting history from WMAC!

[@deejaythomas6161]

I miss the burgundy waste trucks

[@westernstategarbagetrucks]

Absolutely one hell of a video Aaron! Your reach for resources and finding this old footage is amazing. So glad you are bringing all this awesome footage to us! Excited to see what else you have up your sleeve!

[@WMmaster626]

Thank you bro!

[@FresnoRefuseTrucks]

Just impressive how many old gems you found! Good old times..

[@WMmaster626]

Thank you!!

[@dabking94.19]

It's like I'm back in my childhood again! Loved the old WMX Kann Co One Pass trucks! Lived in Hayward in the 90's into 2000. Had one run my neighborhood every Wednesday as well as Tri-ced. That brief footage of the old Tri-Ced Curb Cycle Dempster "Recycle One" truck..I almost teard up. NO videos or photos of thoes online. Thank you for posting this video!

[@WMmaster626]

Glad you enjoyed!!

[@TrashTruckCentralProductions]

Amazing video! Watched the entire thing! Even though I wasn't around to see the old WMX colors, I sure do miss them!

[@WMmaster626]

Thanks!

[@zp12684]

Best video you've posted this year! It was just awesome to see the old trucks that use to roam Alameda county.

[@WMmaster626]

Thank you sir!

[@RecologySpencer]

Thanks for posting this Aaron! Neat to see more in depth documentation of the old days of WMAC, sure was a real treat seeing all those classic Burgundy WMX/Recycle America trucks, especially those Volvo front and rear loaders!

[@WMmaster626]

Glad you enjoyed, some good history here!

[@smashtrash4373]

Amazing. Thanks for posting this Aaron

[@WMmaster626]

No problem 😁 I have an old MSS photo to show you as well

[@CTG275]

Badass video Aaron!!! I loved the clips and everything, especially the pic slides. Wish yards still had these 7:09

[@WMmaster626]

Thanks!

[@socalgarbagetrucks2585]

Good shit

[@WMmaster626]

Working on another project right now that you may like 😁

[@THEAZREFUSEGUY2006]

Nice video! wish they still has the Kanns

[@WMAC_Master]

same. they were really hard working

[@milldogg7311]

Wow! Thanks for the walk down memory lane Aaron! Now that’s the wmac I remember from the early 2000’s. I drove the Kann one pass trucks, the msl’s like the wittke’s, mcneilus’, and the condor amreps. I really loved those. They were still in the repainting phases back then from burgundy to green. The burgundy toters were used throughout Oakland, and were still there when I was there. I don’t remember seeing the wmac GreenWaste toters though. I know that wasn’t oro loma, but could have been a pilot program for the green waste carts prior to rolling out the rehrigs. I saw the split labrie mini max that VWM had, and the rapid rails were from VWM too. WMAC even had Pete 310 and WXLL amrep Octos they used for recycle in oro loma too back then. And prior to the split wittke front loaders in oro loma, they had mcneilus century 2 recyclers for the trash and organics. Now days, it’s all acx mcneilus msl’s, currottos, and asl’s that service residential in alameda county. What an awesome piece of history! Thanks for sharing bud! Love it!

[@WMmaster626]

Good to hear from you man! Love the stories from back in the day! Curious if that MSL was filmed in Alameda back when WMAC had it, not sure though. Miss those Octo ASLs! Those were nice trucks, a few actually ended up down here in SoCal Glad you enjoyed!

[@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse]

my guy christopher columbusmiller is alive still

[@milldogg7311]

@@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse oh yeah, still alive and kicking. Get old as $h!t though! 🤣

[@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse]

@@milldogg7311 haha, happens to everyone

[@WMAC_Master]

hearing about the history really is entertaining. btw, I believe the wmac toters were indeed a "pilot program" for castro valley. Some small filmer in castro valley stumbled upon one that said " Castro valley yard waste collection program." Turns out all of them say that on the lid. I hope someone can get one cause they are quite unique

[@roygray6674]

Damn they used to have Wmx Msls!

[@WMAC_Master]

DAMN! NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE ANYTHING LIKE THIS!! IT SOLVES MANY OF MY QUESTIONS TOO!! didn't know we had tubbed recycle either! never knew wmac even had most of those old trucks! where in the world did the news clips come from?? did wmac send them to you?? and all those old photos were sick! and i'm glad one of the vwm wmx kanns was documented before it was scrapped enjoyed every minute thank you for posting this!

[@WMAC_Master]

1:22 is that Fremont?? those look like BFI tubs why was BFI and wmac in the same area??

[@WMmaster626]

Haha thanks, knew you'd enjoy. This all came from various clips on the internet. I'm thinking the MSL footage was in Oro Loma Sanitary District but not sure. Fremont isn't out of the question either, not enough documented history to determine at the moment

[@WMAC_Master]

@@WMmaster626 internet huh? where exactly? (maybe more oldfootage is there) for the msl, i don't believe it was OLSD because there would be oro loma toters and i believe the nestable toters are newer than what oro loma bought. could be wrong though might be castro valley, since they had tons of them wmac toters

[@westcoastrefusetrucks]

@@WMAC_Master it’s not fremont, they ran under a different logo on their recycle tubs and never had carts. They also had their own yard in Fremont if I remember correctly. You’ve found a number of these logo’s nestable evr1s before so I’m guessing it’s probably that region, either that or OLSD rolled out nestables in certain areas

[@WMAC_Master]

confirmed it is actually castro valley on the wayback machine, i saw on the stopwaste website in the year 2000 that the curbside recycling was serviced by BFI. Pretty interesting imo. BFI and WM were quite large back then.

[@willthetrashman]

he does it again

[@WMmaster626]

Thank you Mr 40 under 40 😁🙏

[@abelherrera9146]

can you do a waste management HSS yard tour

[@SanLeandroRefuseTrucks]

1:21 YO THAT CART IS RARE NOW

[@SanLeandroRefuseTrucks]

1:26 Never knew we had these trucks

[@SanLeandroRefuseTrucks]

5:53 Pretty sure this truck is still running to this day my brother saw it a few months ago

[@SanLeandroRefuseTrucks]

6:32 rapid rail!

[@WMAC_Master]

@@SanLeandroRefuseTrucks me neither

[@westernamericantrashtrucks]

The CNG Volvo Wittkes I believe came from Napa Garbage since many of their Volvos looked like this. I doubt Empire actually ran a CNG operation as well. Do you have any old pictures of the Green Valley Disposal and Napa Garbage fleet and operations. I am curious to see what trucks and carts they had.

[@WMmaster626]

Empire had at least 4 CNG Wittkes so it's possible that that's one of them. Just can't remember which came from Napa and which came from Empire. I have a few saved of Green Valley and Napa but very limited

[@westernamericantrashtrucks]

@@WMmaster626 can you post those old pictures on flickr

[@kyledonaghy237]

I prefer the burgundy colours to the new Green 🤔

[@DeemanThomas-bn9qi]

Yes let the green go bring the burgundy back truly missed

[@trashmandavid1694]

what year of this video

[@WMmaster626]

Late 90s up to 2014

[@Amrep335]

I didn't even think WMX ran this close into the 2000s

[@Amrep335]

Arent I being shadow banned by you now?

[@CaliforniaCapitalRefuse]

wmx wasnt running that. it was wm, wmx transitioned to WM in about 1997-98

[@WMAC_Master]

i wonder where wm ran the pods? i guess they were gone when i was around

[@nokia3750]

KZbin it. There are plenty on here.

[@WMAC_Master]

@@nokia3750 well those were the heil pods oceanside bought no one as far as i know filmed WMAC's heil pod

[@nokia3750]

@@WMAC_Master honestly they’re kinda the same

[@WMAC_Master]

@@nokia3750 yeah kinda i've seen all the oceanside pod vids

[@WMmaster626]

Good chance the POD in Oakland was from VWM

[@WasteMan226]

Charlie trash truck retro

[@WMmaster626]

Charlie missed all this by just a few years

[@westcoastrefusetrucks]

If you look in the background of Charlie, there’s a few spottings of old repainted trucks. They just went hard on the “new shiny” lol

[@WMmaster626]

@@westcoastrefusetrucks Lol the "new" trucks in Charlie turned out to be some of my fav trucks in WM history too 😆