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Re: Evolution of garbage (truck)
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lugnet.town
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Thu, 4 Jan 2007 17:27:17 GMT
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In lugnet.town, Michael Harrod wrote:
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Sadly, I think the traditional garbage truck, and, moreover, the “garbage
man” (woman, though you don’t see that many) may actually be in danger of
extinction.
I was riding around Suffolk, Virginia over the holidays, and we got behind a
garbage truck which had some sort of “robotic arm” coming out of the side of
it, “grabbing” the garbage can (read: glorified dumpster) and lifting it up
over the side of the truck to dump its contents.
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Here’s a pic of what you probably saw:
More info on the Automated Side Loaders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_truck
These fully automatic ones are the only game in town here in Southeastern
Arizona. There are too many households to go to for people to have to manually
load the garbage. Even our recycle trucks are ASLs.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) We've had them in Brisbane for at least ten years. I seem to remember that some have two arms: one for recycling and one for the other bin. Tim (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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| (...) Hey, Jonathan: I like all three iterations, but especially the first one because it has actual passenger doors. 8--)= Sadly, I think the traditional garbage truck, and, moreover, the "garbage man" (woman, though you don't see that many) may (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jan-07, to lugnet.town)
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