BIN TRUCK

Some of the bin lorries function to a similar principle – they pick up the bins using a hydraulic function and drop them off in the container of the vehicle; the bin is cleared out at the end of the vehicle’s rounds, and the waste is compacted. Then, as the rounds go by, the compacting process is reversed, and the truck empties itself into the recycling plant or at the landfill site.

A driver might only do 350 miles when there’s lots of distance between stops but do 850 miles when they’re less far apart. However, in a metropolitan area where most stops are clustered close together, automated trucks manage to service 1,500 stops in a single day.

In addition to the garbage truck’s capacity and technology, the kind of trash it collects is a major factor. There are compactor-type trucks, which compress garbage using one of two mechanisms. In the pushed plate style, trash is loaded from the top or middle. In the rear compactor style, trash is loaded from a hopper at the rear.

From the front, the blade can be pushed to the back, where someone can crawl in with a shovel and broom. After unpacking the rear tipping gear, they must be opened and then propped so you can scrub the various hydraulics.