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.
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u/JukeBoxDildo Aug 26 '21
This is a newer and I'd guess higher end truck. A majority don't look like this.
Source: had my CDL and drove a garbage truck for a few years.