As the passenger seat is entirely devoted to a space shuttle command control, I think it smashed right through mild interest into full-on, mega interest.
Looks like there is a passenger seat on the other side. Or at least, a standing area. There’s another joystick on the far side not reachable from the driver’s side.
A similar image some time ago from a truck driver received a comment from the late u/PeterMayhew and sparked a string of similar posts showing the various control panels people work with in their vehicles.
My 4 year old, garbage truck obsessed, son would find this fascinating and more than mildly interesting. We’ve had garbage truck themed birthday parties the last two years and he wakes me up early every Monday to watch the truck pick up our trash. Says he wants to be a garbage man when he grows up. I’m definitely showing him this post.
looks to be a cabover and the controls look pretty basic, the fact that it is a dual hand drive makes it look more intimidating. the controls to the right of the joystick are just for the dump box the rest are standard lights and what not that are normaly up on the roof on some trucks.
Joystick moves the articulated claw arm to pick up bins and empty them. Usually there is a metal box at the front of the truck that will periodically be lifted up and dumped into main truck bin behind the driver for things the claw doesn’t get.
Look at the panel next to the joystick with the switch closest to the yellow button. Looks to clearly be one of the ones that picks it up from the side. I'm guessing the dual side thing is to make it easier to drive closer to the curb and the bins.
That's how it was where I grew up as well. Trash truck with a hydraulic lift in the front with a large bin on it (same style as the trucks that service commercial properties, except with the bin). One person driving, one person dumping trash cans into the bin.
Working from the back of a trash truck is pretty brutal work and dangerous. Usually not much for a career unless they get a CDL and start driving. The world is better off without that job IMO.
When I was a kid…it was probably a crew of three. One driver, two guys on the back working both sides of the alley. And they’d always make sure to never put the lid back on properly so the next time you’d go out with the garbage and it had rained, there’d be a couple of inches of rank, brown water in the bottom of the can or the lid would get run over by a car and it became useless. But it was always fun to watch them load an old couch.
Then in the winter, all those garbage trucks became snow plows.
Python arm. Driver can control the extend/retract and lift/lower with the joystick. The buttons control the fingers on the arm to grab the bin. The transmission is an Allison auto controlled by the button s immediately below the stick.
Most of the buttons on the right side of the dash are for ejecting the load. Tailgate lock/unlock, raising the tailgate. This truck is a gravity dump so that is the switch that shows the body rising up. Unlock/raise tailgate/ raise body then proceed forward to eject.
Hopefully his division dumps at a transfer station rather than on a landfill. Gravity dump trucks are very easy to roll over. Especially if you have a load packed in tight, you may have to pull forward and reverse multiple times to get it loose.
Yeah we have those in the us, some are like that where there are two driver set ups due to particular functions but there are also a lot of side arm trucks that are in the us that are right hand drive so the driver can clearly see the curb side claw functions when picking up a can
My city went to these a few years ago. I am pretty sure this is what that is. This truck with it’s one operator is probably twice as fast as the old trucks with three workers. And I’d bet the climate controlled cab keeps out all odors.
I feel like I totally take our sanitation workers for granted. What are the worst and best parts about the job? As a driver, do you inhale garbage fumes all day or are the cabins fairly isolated? Did it pay well?
I'm a 32 year old man and got to see the inside of the garbage trucks that take our trash. I guess they're newer models because they looked similar to this! Neat stuff!
Depending on the year, either an LR or LEU. You can tell by the windshield being completely rectagular. If it was an MRU or TE, there would be a diagonal cutout on the bottom inside corner of each glass.
It if didn't have the ULSF sticker, then it could possibly have been an LE or MR as it would be pre-US07 emissions (hence, no DPF).
I’m a heavy equipment operator but have never driven a garbage truck. I can confirm, however, that modern rock trucks (dump trucks) are typically a spacious cockpit layout with a single central chair and a dash covered in buttons that looks fancier than this. Many of them also have a built in cooler on the side that’s cooled with an ac vent. Rock trucks are plush.
As a toddler I was fascinated with bin lorries. I've been told when we were on holiday in Majorca one year I would wait outside every day for the bin lorry to arrive. And apparently on our last day they took me up into the cab and I couldn't handle the excitement.
Probably the only thing I’m thankful for regarding the lockdowns is how much time I’ve gotten to spend with my son. He’s now 18 months old and he’s totally in love with trucks. Every Thursday morning, I take him outside when the garbage truck comes down our street and he gets to watch the truck do it’s thing. It’s got a claw that grabs the can and shakes it into the back of the truck. After he’s done with our can, the garbage man honks his horn for us as my son waves.
My city has a "Touch a Truck" event every year where kids can go to the park and see the insides of all kinds of trucks. Usually there's a news station helicopter there as well, it's really cool to see inside all the different stuff.
Isn't too far off the inside of a lot of fire engines/trucks! A few less computers and radios maybe, and an extra wheel that won't be there in the emergency vehicle. Same transmission controls.
Fun fact: fire engines don't need keys, but they will often turn the battery switch to off at least. Easy to turn back on if you are looking for it.
At my county’s annual fair, they have the county department of transportation there to let us get inside trucks like these. I always think it’s really cool, but it’s just me and the kids who like fire trucks and moster trucks
I must live in the middle of nowhere because the trash guys around here have the beat up hand me downs with no hydro lift so its good ol fashioned manual labor that puts the trash in the truck.
i’ve never seen a trash truck without gallons of trash juice inside the cab. i can tell you now, this is not the kind that lifts the bins over the front.
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u/Not____Dad Aug 26 '21
Huh. Never in my life have I seen the inside of one of these. Thanks for sharing OP!