How many hydraulic hoses on a garbage truck?

Hello everyone,

I'm hoping there's some mechanically inclined folks here, used to either working on or around refuse trucks, particularly front, rear and side loading.

I'm a hydraulic sales specialist for a heavy equipment company in Washington state and I've been tasked with approaching our state waste collections agencies with a maintenance service proposal. I'm looking at putting together hose kits for either rebuilds or preventative maintenance and am looking to get a rough idea of how many hoses one might deal with on a garbage truck.

As well, if anyone has any insight as to how/who maintains the trucks I'd be very appreciative. As far as I know, the agencies (i.e. republic services, waste management etc) repair their own trucks aside from perhaps cylinders (when it comes to things like chroming or line boring) and have parts deals with say parker or eaton for hoses/fittings or pumps. Is this a contract I can ask to out-bid? Are these contracts and relationships hard to budge? Are these agencies concerned more with price or integrity and longevity of the materials for maintenance sake?

Appreciate any info!

Thank you,
JLee

 

I should elaborate... I run such a hose shop, where we have the materials to build/reverse engineer or provide any length and size of hose. It's an application generally applied to our heavy equipment, however I'm trying to do some out-of-the-box thinking.

It's inspired by something another dealership had done in AZ. Rather than have a hose blow-off and get it repaired, we do a 12-18 month cycle of hoses that prevents the event from happening in the first place. This might seem more costly, but in light of down time, slow cycles from degrading equipment and fines associated with hydraulic leaks in residential areas the AZ agencies ended up saving a significant amount of money.

Granted AZ is much hotter than WA, and their cycles are more rigorous (despite the Seattle area developing and crowding quite quickly) I wanted to see if there's still opportunity for this. I'll likely be in touch with some mechanics that deal with collection machines, but wanted to get some more background info before approaching them.

Thank you everyone for your replies! Looking forward to hearing more.

 

This is an approach as well

The main goal is to prevent blow offs/failures and save money on environmental fines.