Rob Jamieson took this picture in 1996 this is The City of Shaker Heights, Ohio Ford C model refuse truck. Now Shaker and the even still do this to this day I think, they have for whatever reason the curb sorter recycling box which is that orange box that loads from the side and that white thing up front is called a plastic compactor, now they have done away with the plastic compactors. Then the back is the garbage packer it's self.
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Shaker now a days there trucks are Peterbilts and they have Loadmaster packer bodies not Pak Mores anymore.
Before there was Waste Management that we have today there was a company called USA Waste which bought out the burgandy brown Waste Management in 1998, but they kept the name Waste Management which is why Waste Managements logo is green and yellow, it's because of USA Waste. Anyhow this picture was taken in the early/middle 1990s this truck is a 31 yard rear loader, the private trash haulers down graded mostly to 25yarders and the reason being is because what happened was in the 1990s the DOT started getting serious about over weight and these 31 yard trucks some guys were out on routes and they were packing these trucks to 19.5 tons of pay load and were severely overweight. Eventually it got so bad they would paint a yellow line on the inside of the truck body and weather the route was up or not it didn't matter if you were full to the yellow line you had to go empty, because the routes were to big and everyone was running heavy. However, back in the day 1970s to, today the rear load packer trucks that was the beginning of the modern day high capacity rear loader. Just a little arbitrary garbage truck history.
Municipal Garbage History: Los Angeles Department of Sanitation Founded 1957
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Question is, why would a manufacturer make a truck that big when it could be packed to beyond DOT weight specs?
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But I've noticed more and more of the trucks are 25 yard trucks. City of Rocky River I think now only has (1) 32 yard truck and another 31 yard for leaves and yard waste and then everything else is 25 yard.
There marketing focus groups must have told them there was demand for this and then you know the companies probably thought we could have longer routes and bigger routes and then when someone hit the scale weighing it at 19.5 tons and they got a huge over weight ticket that all changed.SmallPackage and Itsbrokeagain Thank this. -
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NYC also has their own weight cap at 55k I think. Which is ridiculous because in the state of elsewhere you run 70-80k no problem. My friend has several trucks for construction demo and you have to eyeball it to guess what you weigh in at ...otherwise you come over the bridge, NYPD/DOT waiting right there to do a scale check....my buddy got one for 7000lbs overweight, but well within the spec for the truck. He said it's cheaper for the driver to pull over, refuse to get on the scale saying the truck doesn't start or something, have to get it towed to the yard and impounded.
That would run him $1300, which is way less than the $1/lb that NYC fines you....in this case it would be $7000.Mike2633 and SmallPackage Thank this. -
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The Burgandy flying arrow they called it back in the day.
BFI was also another historic company big in the 1990s before it collapsed under its own weight. -
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There were also a few of their old rusted and mangled bodies getting shredded at Newell Interprises Recycling years ago too.
They are still using lots of Macks and competitor Republic is now starting to replace their old Allied Macks with Petes.Mike2633 Thanks this.
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