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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike2633, post: 10348060, member: 117804&quot;]When our city did the garbage, we had year round yard waste, every week bulk collection and you could just call for no holds barred extra pick ups and they would come out at the end of the day and do extra pick ups no questions or hassle or anything, we basically had unlimited service and no litter in the street. Also we had bi weekly street sweeping and leaf collection was on a daily schedule in the fall. </p><p><br /></p><p>Contrast that to now, we have 95 gallon automated garbage cans and 65 gallon recycling cans. Sometimes they get emptied all the way and sometimes they don&#039;t and always tons of trash and litter in the street, I spend every garbage day picking up after the garbage truck. We have an extremely stupid yard waste season that starts a little to late and ends way to early it ends right in the middle of leaf season which then forces you to dump yard waste in the leaf pile, or hard your yard waste garbage lots of people do that. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then we only have 1 bulk waste day a month and the problem with that is Republic doesn&#039;t send enough crews in and because people are forced to hoard garabge all month when we do have bulk day the tree lawns are stuffed to the gills and Republic doesn&#039;t send enough equipment or people and naturally there trucks break down and there routes get over shot and they can&#039;t pick it all up. Then stuff sits out on the curb for another day and maybe they come back to get it the next day and maybe they don&#039;t, usually it&#039;s way later in the day and this week we Republic missed a pick up and one neighbor called the police on another neighbor who&#039;s pick up was missed what stupidity. </p><p><br /></p><p>As far as yard waste same deal, sometimes they can cram it all in sometimes they can&#039;t same thing they don&#039;t send enough people or equipment and if we have a nice weekend like this weekend the yard waste route will get over shot and over run and they won&#039;t be able to pick it all up. Republic tries to do the city in one day and they this year have been failing. The problem is the only thing they want to do is the auto cans the other stuff they really don&#039;t want to do, it&#039;s just that it comes with the territory, but there really not interested in it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]332335[/ATTACH] </p><p><i>Photo Curtsy of Rob Jamison</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Legend has it the old school &quot;Grass Recycling Truck&quot; never missed a pick up. Old 1980s Ford era Ford L8000 with 1980s era Leach 2R2 packer. No DEF Fluid, no emissions controls, probably manual transmission, not over burdened with software and sensors that break, probably wasn&#039;t specked with the biggest engine ever, but then again this truck spent more time in the city then on the road and spent more time running then driving. The miles on this truck probably were not that much, but the engine hours were probably very high. Because all that packing the truck does is all powered off of the trucks diesel motor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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