r/mildlyinteresting • u/dysfunctionalveteran • Aug 26 '21

Interior and controls of my garbage truck. Quality Post

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u/the_last_0ne Aug 26 '21

Northeast US here and our trucks are a mix of the newer ones with arms and guys for now. I think they keep a guy on the back anyhow in case the cans are facing the wrong way or not accessible from the arm right away.

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u/innernationalspy Aug 26 '21

Once they train their customers they'll just skip the houses that don't place cans as directed.

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u/mataeka Aug 26 '21

There is a new estate being designed in Australia where they plan to have underground waste disposal on a vacuum system

https://youtu.be/xmgpXK5NLJ0

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u/Seve7h Aug 27 '21

That looks cool but I’d give it a week before people are clogging it, imagine trying to hide a body or something in there

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u/ScarletCaptain Aug 26 '21

Yeah, in my city it depends on the neighborhood. Older parts of town where alleys are common they have to have a guy to pull the cans up to the back where a little hook thing flips the cans into the back. Other parts of the city where people can easily put their cans onto the curb they have the trucks with the gripper arm on the side.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '21

Yeah, we have a guy on the back still here in the SE US too. He handles the bulk trash outside of the can and makes sure the bins are pointed the right way.

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u/mataeka Aug 26 '21

Australian here. It's really weird for me to hear how many places still don't have robotic arm trucks. I've never seen anything but since at least the mid 90s.

My 6yo son has loved garbage trucks since he was 2 and there are loads of videos on YouTube to appease him, when we first started watching I was blown away by all the variations and how many were old school ones. Garbage trucks are truly more than mildly interesting