They're the real heroes of society. And at the garbage disposal they're always so nice and helpful! Surely they need to have even better recocgnition by regular folks. The same goes for plumbers, concrete workers, tile/floor layers, drywallers or even electricians. They all need our appreciation!
Coming from a garbage truck enthusiast who got this video recommended by YT. Great job explaining the different styles of garbage trucks. Of course I could go on and on about the various styles of garbage trucks, especially the big differences between the American continent and Europe/Australia but for people who have little idea it was a great video covering all basic informations. Just a small correction, the very first compacting garbage truck bodies was not the Garwood load packer. It‘s a bit disbuted but the credit for it goes to three different companies who all had compacting garbage trucks. Ferdinand Rey developed a compacting rear loader in France together with Sita. Krupp in Germany which is mostly famous for their steel also built a compacting rear loader using a auger screw in the 1920s. Fun fact, Krupp actually shipped a test unit to DSNY, the NYC sanitation department so you could say this was technically the first ever compacting rear loader in the USA. Another German company that had developed a compacting rear loader by the 1920s was KUKA which came up with the Rotopress. A drum like truck similar to a cement truck which compacts the waste only by spinning. This designed is actually still build after nearly 100 years and is still one of the most popular garbage truck body in Europe and Asia which is quite remarkable (partly due to the fact that it‘s very easy to maintain due to a lack of hydraulics) Also, the side loaders really only became popular during the 1980s. You are right the city of Scottsdale AZ had already partnered up with Western Body in the 1960s to build a automated side loader but it took almost 20 years before the side loaders actually becoming popular amongst haulers. If anyone is interested about garbage trucks in general, check out the website „classicrefusetrucks“. It‘s currently getting rebuild so you won‘t be able to view all pages but it‘s a website dedicated to garbage trucks and their history. it features a list of every known garbage truck manufacturer in the world that exists/existed with some already having their own pages where information about them is given while some are still being worked on. There‘s a lot more I could talk about but I will leave it at this haha
Thanks for all the info, for some reason Google is full of vague information about garbage trucks, it's great to hear from someone who actually has knowledge on the subject!
I'm in the waste industry working on hooks, front, rear and side lifts, I like knowing history on things I work on, so I am interested in buses from previous jobs too. It's interesting how Australia runs twin steer tandem drive to do 28.5t loaded on a front lift in modern Volvo FM's, Scania p series etc, but in America they are single steer, with a drop axle on the tandem, on 1970s designed Peterbilts and Mack's that are uglier than Acco's are and probably less safe. That being said America gets Dennis Eagles now so that's fun for everyone.
RUclips randomly recommended one of your videos to me one time, and I almost kept scrolling, but I’m sure glad I didn’t. This is the channel I didn’t know I needed. These videos are so good.
@@foty8679 I think he says he wants to see the different ambulance designs from around the world as well as the evolution of the designs throughout time. I’d also be pretty interested in such a video
@@foty8679 well I don’t mean the “rest of the world” as just Europe and I’m talking about *type I* ambulances which is the more “boxy” ambulance design.
Here in Germany we usually have type 3 ambulances and some type 2 ambulances. We probably dont really have type 1 ambulances because we use pickups much less in general and vans are more aerodynamically suited to putting a big box behind them.
In quite a few places in the UK, tractors (as in the farm kind) and flat bed trailers on which the bins are taken whole and just swapped out. Lots of the roads are too hilly or rough for bin lorry (which are almost unanimously back loaders here, though often with 2 separate sides in them for different types of waste such a recycling and food/garden waste). We also have at least in cities another kind of truck which is used for waste and I suppose count; They are small ,oftern smaller than a car, which basically have a cage on the back with an access door into which black bag waste can be put, I suppose they are ever emptied manually or by a vacuum nozzle thing. And that's another kind of bin lorry they are vacuum but don't connect to central waste collection systems but instead suck the waste straight out of large open top park bins, though my local park has stopped using them presumably on a cost basis and replaced the nice open wooden bins with wealy dumpsters a normal bin lorry can empty.
Where in the UK are those tractor bin lorry’s present? I’ve lived here all my life and never seen one… (though admittedly I’ve always live in urban areas)
Hey Yukon! I work for a municipality up in Northern Ontario, and we use roll off bins with closed tops and doors on the sides for garbage and recycling at our municipal "dumps" (which we call "waste transfer stations"). We contract the pick-up of them to Waste Connections Canada, and they pick it up in roll-off trucks! So while roll-off trucks are usually used for demo waste, they are used for regular garbage too! Awesome video 💯
German company KUKA also built garbage trucks to a Mercedes plaform back in the day. Because these were the first ones in Hungary, here we call garbage cans "kuka"s, because people seen the "Kuka-truck" coming. Quite a lot of people don't know this, so they often laugh ignorantly when seeing KUKA robots, telling how funny the company's name is...
Your video quality is getting noticeably better with each upload. Informative video, and entertaining to watch. You're becoming the Sam O'Nella of trucks.
At first I was like "hell yeah, the modern marvel of garbage trucks" then i saw the stinky brown garbage water in the back and i almost threw up all over my keyboard. Great video 10/10
as someone who got to ride shotgun in a Garbage truck, this took me back. let me tell ya, the quick shifting spectrum of smells was.. God damn. didn't mind it but it threw my senses through a loop at times.
I once did maintenance work, which included riding on a rear-loading compactor truck. That was undoubtedly fun being 18 and riding on the back of the truck and operating the compactor controls.
At 70, I remember a time when the City of Long Beach, CA was collecting organic garbage in dump trucks with low sides. Some homes used to have personal incinerators but the practice was banned in '57. As the tech has improved, with each step I think, "it's about f'n time."
Where I live (in the UK), we have rear-loading bin lorries where the wheely-bins are manually moved onto simple lifting arms and dumped into the back compactor. Also, we call the trucks which lift the metal containers onto a flatbed, skip trucks. They are most commonly seen transporting 'skips' which are trapezium shaped metal containers often rented out for use at smaller construction sites such as for renovating or building house extensions. Some of the photos of older bin lorries shown looked like dumper trucks. I wonder if any of those may have gone into construction at some point.
As a Brit I just wanted to thank you for including and acknowledging the term Bin Lorry. I also found this most interesting having always been fascinated by bin lorries as a child.
Here in Brazil all trucks are compactors, but the way they work is by having the driver move slowly through the neighborhoods while a pair of workers jog around around the streets picking up trash bags and throwing them into the back of the truck
This is also the standard in europe. Trucks are generally backloaders, and there's a pair of workers who throw trash bags or load and unload bins. Depending on the quantity of waste, the driver either rolls through slowly or stops entirely, but doesn't get out of the cabin unless absolutely necessary.
That scene at 4:02 is just pure pain, either to brain or to nature. Allways respectet the workers who kept the streets clean, even here on the countryside. But after seeing this scene i realised how much trash it really is, just keep in mind theres land bigger than my whole towncycle combind fullfilled with trash and no grass or other greens around, this is something the people out there dont (want to) see.... Amazing video, keep it on
Where I live traditional dumpsters (patent Ochsner for all you dumpster enthusiasts) are slowly getting replaced with subterranean containers that sit just under the ground with only a small chute to throw your trash in sticking out. So besides the regular sideloaders and backloaders there are also trucks with a special crane to lift and empty these new containers. And since there are also subterranean containers for glass and metal the trucks often have several compartments. And cardboard or paper is obviously collected in a different kind of container (can't have a standard for everything, that's not complicated enough) which can be collected by a roll-on container truck
God these videos are great! One day I'd love to see you go through the intricacies of west coast heavy haul and or non standard double/triple trailers. Whenever I'm in the northwest I'm always amazed by the configuration of trucks out there and I can find very little info aside from standard over size permit loads.
I just discovered this channel from the Yard Dog vid. (me thinking) "sweet, there must be years of content to binge since the quality/entertainment/view numbers is so good" (scrolls down...) "whaaat??" Love what I see so far. Look forward to watching more past and future.
In some places in Sweden (a country who likes recycling) there's a type of backloading garbage truck with different compartment for different materials, and the corresponding garbage bin has compartments for these materials. These bins comes in pairs with 4 compartments in each. They are also powered by biogas which is generated by the garbage companies with the food waste they collect, they also sell the compost that is created.
@@JNJNRobin1337 Yeah, and in other places (like were I now live we burn everything to create heat. We need so much waste that we import from other cities and even countries just to keep the heat
Great video, my family has been in the industry for 15 year and it's awesome seeing people getting more interested Would love to see a video in this style about fire trucks, specifically airport fire trucks Thank you!
As a mechanic on Garbage Trucks, you get used to the smell! The one thing you don't get used to, is the smell of burning through layers of old compacted garbage. The floor under the Compacter Blade gets worn out over years so you have to take a plasma cutter and cut out the floor piece and weld another section back in. It's an unearthly smell 😂
Your videos are just getting better and better. I love trucks and been working on Detroit Diesels since I was 6 helping my dad and I own a 83 MacK R series flatbed and your videos have made my interest in restoring it a lot more. Semi's are just so cool. Along with buses
In Europe we have have started using a more advanced grapple truck. We basically have recycling stations with green bins that sits in slots on the ground with different slots for different materials. Then we pick them up with a knuckle boom and open the underside into a compactor or large container.
Nice to see some history and attention on this subject. Thanks mate! And you'd be right there isn't much we can do about the smell. At least we take showers when we get home LOL
Trucks are still loaded by hand quite often, not to mention each fleet is made up of: -Garbage trucks -Leaf and Yard trucks -Recycle Trucks Recycle trucks have two hoppers, one is about 3x bigger than the other and the large side can be used for tin(cans, bottles etc.) or fiber (boxes), the small side is used for compost (food waste) -A Garbage Man
Until a few years ago we actually had a combination of front and sideloader in the village I used to live here in germany. The mount of the front loader consisted of 2 side loader mounts and was connected to a hinge that allowed to turn it by 90 degrees so it could pick up the trash containers from the sidewalk then turn back and empty like a front loader. Nowadays they went back to more manual trucks with 2 guys riding on the back and 2 lift arms that empty the containers into the back of the truck but still way more comfortable than what you have in the US :D
Where I live, we tend to carry most of our trash to the local recycling station down the road. Sort it into various bins and such. In the end it means we don't have much "general" trash left, especially since we also tend to sort out compost/food-waste separately as well.
Trash trucks perhaps? They're trash trucks that take out dumpsters with big robotic arms, cool. Every Thursday in my block, trash trucks come to pick up, nice. I bet back in the 1940s, it looked smaller to you, the trucks. But today, technology trash trucks can automatically eat up the junk, how cool. Great work on cleaning up this world, awesome
Here in Germany we mostly have semi-automatic and automatic trash collectors because labour is expensive and paying injured workers is even more expensive. We also get our trash bins from the municipality or trash collecting company, so they are all the same, which simplifies the pickup.
you should look more into european designs where im from most of the trash trucks are either compact front loaders or really interesting cranes that grab speciallized containers either in the floor or plastic containers on the side walk and lift them and dump them inside sometimes even washing the containers
where i live we have side loading dumpster trash trucks, with metal dumpsters in the alleys behind the houses. like a small version of the front loading trash truck, but from the side, for urban areas.
We used to have recycling wheelie bins that were split down the middle, one side for paper and the other for glass/metal. The trucks had some sort of mechanism that emptied the two halves separately. They don't do that anymore in my area though.
Roll-off trucks have a lot of uses. They're kind of a Swiss army knife of vocational trucks. Company I used to work for had a roll-off semi trailer and a flatbed module that they could install or remove whenever necessary, among the regular roll-off bins.
Actually, there's another type of truck you didn't mention: the Hydraulic Crane Garbage Truck. They're designed to handle underground garbage and recycling containers (such as the ones made by Molok).
There is also compactor rolloffs, you see them attached to the compactor structure on the backside of places like supermarkets. And we can all thank Dempster for dumpster fires then too, though indirectly as he merely invented the vessel for which our disasters to combust in. and a final fun note about the waste management business. There was a guy in Connecticut who basically was a real world Tony Soprano, He bought his 17yr old son a minor league hockey team(Danbury Trashers, The stories are true but if it was done in a movie you would think it was made up).
I work in a company where we drive roll off trucks and they're very similar to the cable trucks shown but instead of using cables to raise and lower the dumpsters it's just a mechanical arm with 2 points of freedom controlled by hydraulics. So you can either just dump the dumpster or you can roll it off the truck.
Where I live there are some dempster dumps running and I always thought that they looked right odd with no bin. The 100 year old design explains things.
Been following for about a month now, not disappointed, keep up the hard work!!!! I honestly don't have a lot of criticism, maybe gradually getting better with animation? But that will come with time, no worries.
on my college campus I've seen little trucks that look a lot like the original Dempster trucks that are used for getting dumpsters out of tight areas. i presume they then take it to somewhere else nearby then empty it then bring it back
When my brother and I were born, our parents lived in suburban New Jersey, and one of our neighbors had a feud with the garbage men. He was retired off a massive worker's comp settlement and would spend pretty much all day in the carpeted garage he'd turned into a proto man cave. Apparently the neighborhood used old school metal cans, and one time he came out and yelled at the garbage men for denting his nice new cans. This is New Jersey, so the next few times they came by they put his cans in the back of the truck and straight up crushed them (slightly) with the hydraulic compactor. They stopped once they realized he was literally hanging around to catch them in the act, but that wasn't the end of it. These were also the rear loading trucks that could only compact the trash while the truck was stopped, and they'd do so every couple houses or blocks or so. As shown in one of the last clips, this created a disgusting slurry of trash juice, some or most of which would leak out of the bottom of the truck and onto the road. This guy was *_convinced_* that after the dented cans fiasco, they purposefully ran the compactor in front of his house every time so they could leave a puddle of what he called "the squeezings", so he'd have to smell it all day as he sat in his converted garage with the door open. Retirement is a hell of a drug.
Really love your videos! Especially, the series on trucking in different countries. Could you maybe make one about Russia? If there is something interesting to talk about
Probably fucking endless trips, the thing is absolutely massive. Also old ass soviet trucks working off-grid logging and such. Basically, SpinTires Mudrunner
Trucks Featured In video that I know 3:56 | Mack LE i Think - LLC Curotto Can McNeilus Contender I think didn't get a good look correct me 4:45 | Waste Management Peterbilt 520 - Heil Python CNG 4:55 Recology Lodal Manual SIde Load Again don't study manual side loaders that much 5:05 Peterbilt 520 GS Products Star Automated Side Loader 5:14 Lodal Manual Sideloader with both side tippers sorta rare in Winter Haven Florida. 6:00 CNG Waste Management Peterbilt garbage truck don't have much info on this one since it is kinda rare. 6:36 Leach Curbtender 6:55 Los Angeles Sanitation Hardox CNG Peterbilt - 320 Amrep ASL Correct me if i get anything wrong just got this recommended and i didn't really try that hard to identify
Another type of garbage truck I’ve seen is one where there’s a small single axle daycab semi like a freightliner m2 or a Peterbilt 337 pulling a trailer specially designed to hold multiple dumpsters. I can’t find any pictures online because I don’t know the specific name of these trucks but EDCO and WM in Southern California both use these.
Last time I heard someone refer trash trucks as dust carts was in GTA III. Toni Cipriani called it that when he told Claude to drive one fitted with something and take it to the Triads. The Leone family rivals.
Don't forget the trucks that empty out the underground containers. (Big square containers that sit in the ground, with a small opening on the top for users and a large trapdoor on the bottom for emptying. They are lifted up above the truck to empty them) They are very popular here and are very different from the rear loaders. A.f.a.i.k. there are no side or front loaders in use in this country (the Netherlands). Why would you make a complicated contraption when loading from the rear is so much easier and faster? And you can use the exact same truck design for large or small containers, just fit one large one, or up to three small ones in one go...
must be good to have newer dump trucks... here in my area in the philippines they still use old style dump trucks which are almost 2 storeys tall and look like its about to collapse because of the large amount of trash thats on it. Theres even a lot of hanging ones at the back of it
wow...this is my second vid after the school bus video and im very impressed by the quality jump im confident you'll have a million subs some day...im subscribed and im not even that interested in trucks
When I was in high school, one of my teachers asked if any of us were against being a trashman or trash women in my case. We all were pretty much against it. Her point was that now a days they make pretty good $. But no matter what, it's still a hard hard job!!!
Dam the animation of this video is getting really high quality .Dump Trucks will always have a place in my heart 😉.
Because they share something in common with you?
@@groundedgaming didnt have to do mans like that 😭
@@valium4016 what? I absolutely meant that they are very important to the city! Certainly did not mean anything else!
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@@groundedgaming unintentionally had us in the first half not gonna lie.
The fact that the dumpster was invented by a man named Dempster is now one of my favourite facts of all time
YES! :D
Knoxville! Home of the original dumpster fire (probably.)
Probably why they were always called dempster dumpsters
My life became so much better when I learned the term "bin lorry"
That came from britain.
Does it really sound that funny? Genuinely curious cuz I’m used to it here in the UK.
@@uggooga1437 I think it's just the syllabic inversion from "garbage truck" which we say in the states.
@@uggooga1437 it also conjures an image of a narrow body low cab forward truck which is both endearing and against federal law in the US.
@@StefanBacon literal translation would most likely be garbage can truck as we call our 'garbage cans' bins
The addition of The stick man is a awesome move!!!
Loved them! :)
I enjoy their chewy textures.
the stick man kissing the trash man is a nice touch 2:17
These videos keep getting better. Yukon, you’ve created a wonderful channel.
Quality wise it feels like a much larger channel, he deserves way more subs
Tbh I think Nunavut is better
I love watching ppls channels grow. dude is gonna be big, give it a year or so
Always appreciate those who do sanitation duties❤
They're the real heroes of society. And at the garbage disposal they're always so nice and helpful! Surely they need to have even better recocgnition by regular folks. The same goes for plumbers, concrete workers, tile/floor layers, drywallers or even electricians. They all need our appreciation!
You make me love Trucks, I didn't know I needed this in my life until I had it.
Without them, you wouldn't be able to make that comment
Coming from a garbage truck enthusiast who got this video recommended by YT.
Great job explaining the different styles of garbage trucks. Of course I could go on and on about the various styles of garbage trucks, especially the big differences between the American continent and Europe/Australia but for people who have little idea it was a great video covering all basic informations. Just a small correction, the very first compacting garbage truck bodies was not the Garwood load packer. It‘s a bit disbuted but the credit for it goes to three different companies who all had compacting garbage trucks. Ferdinand Rey developed a compacting rear loader in France together with Sita. Krupp in Germany which is mostly famous for their steel also built a compacting rear loader using a auger screw in the 1920s. Fun fact, Krupp actually shipped a test unit to DSNY, the NYC sanitation department so you could say this was technically the first ever compacting rear loader in the USA. Another German company that had developed a compacting rear loader by the 1920s was KUKA which came up with the Rotopress. A drum like truck similar to a cement truck which compacts the waste only by spinning. This designed is actually still build after nearly 100 years and is still one of the most popular garbage truck body in Europe and Asia which is quite remarkable (partly due to the fact that it‘s very easy to maintain due to a lack of hydraulics)
Also, the side loaders really only became popular during the 1980s. You are right the city of Scottsdale AZ had already partnered up with Western Body in the 1960s to build a automated side loader but it took almost 20 years before the side loaders actually becoming popular amongst haulers.
If anyone is interested about garbage trucks in general, check out the website „classicrefusetrucks“. It‘s currently getting rebuild so you won‘t be able to view all pages but it‘s a website dedicated to garbage trucks and their history. it features a list of every known garbage truck manufacturer in the world that exists/existed with some already having their own pages where information about them is given while some are still being worked on.
There‘s a lot more I could talk about but I will leave it at this haha
Thanks for all the info, for some reason Google is full of vague information about garbage trucks, it's great to hear from someone who actually has knowledge on the subject!
I'm sorry but I have to ask, what makes a person become a garbage truck enthusiast?
@@libatonvhs someone who is a garbage truck nerd, and maybe films garbage trucks themselves.
"Another German company that had developed a rear loader was Kuka"
Now I know where the term "kukavůz" came from. You learn something new every day
I'm in the waste industry working on hooks, front, rear and side lifts, I like knowing history on things I work on, so I am interested in buses from previous jobs too. It's interesting how Australia runs twin steer tandem drive to do 28.5t loaded on a front lift in modern Volvo FM's, Scania p series etc, but in America they are single steer, with a drop axle on the tandem, on 1970s designed Peterbilts and Mack's that are uglier than Acco's are and probably less safe. That being said America gets Dennis Eagles now so that's fun for everyone.
RUclips randomly recommended one of your videos to me one time, and I almost kept scrolling, but I’m sure glad I didn’t. This is the channel I didn’t know I needed. These videos are so good.
This video is giving some Sam O'Nella-vibes - love it!
I think you should do a video on American ambulances I’d love to see why type I ambulances are so common here compared to other places in the world
Like..what do you even mean? Europe also has ambulances drving around constantly.
@@foty8679 I think he says he wants to see the different ambulance designs from around the world as well as the evolution of the designs throughout time. I’d also be pretty interested in such a video
@@foty8679 well I don’t mean the “rest of the world” as just Europe and I’m talking about *type I* ambulances which is the more “boxy” ambulance design.
because us americans are typically overweight, so we need larger box style vans to take us to the hospital
Here in Germany we usually have type 3 ambulances and some type 2 ambulances.
We probably dont really have type 1 ambulances because we use pickups much less in general and vans are more aerodynamically suited to putting a big box behind them.
In quite a few places in the UK, tractors (as in the farm kind) and flat bed trailers on which the bins are taken whole and just swapped out. Lots of the roads are too hilly or rough for bin lorry (which are almost unanimously back loaders here, though often with 2 separate sides in them for different types of waste such a recycling and food/garden waste).
We also have at least in cities another kind of truck which is used for waste and I suppose count; They are small ,oftern smaller than a car, which basically have a cage on the back with an access door into which black bag waste can be put, I suppose they are ever emptied manually or by a vacuum nozzle thing.
And that's another kind of bin lorry they are vacuum but don't connect to central waste collection systems but instead suck the waste straight out of large open top park bins, though my local park has stopped using them presumably on a cost basis and replaced the nice open wooden bins with wealy dumpsters a normal bin lorry can empty.
Where in the UK are those tractor bin lorry’s present? I’ve lived here all my life and never seen one… (though admittedly I’ve always live in urban areas)
@@charliejim11 same. Although I'm more suburban but near rural stuff.
@@charliejim11 The ones I know are in the southwest.
Literally procrastinating taking my trash to the curb by watching this video.
Ayeee thanks for the shout out! Very impressive video you made here!
Hey Yukon! I work for a municipality up in Northern Ontario, and we use roll off bins with closed tops and doors on the sides for garbage and recycling at our municipal "dumps" (which we call "waste transfer stations"). We contract the pick-up of them to Waste Connections Canada, and they pick it up in roll-off trucks! So while roll-off trucks are usually used for demo waste, they are used for regular garbage too! Awesome video 💯
German company KUKA also built garbage trucks to a Mercedes plaform back in the day. Because these were the first ones in Hungary, here we call garbage cans "kuka"s, because people seen the "Kuka-truck" coming. Quite a lot of people don't know this, so they often laugh ignorantly when seeing KUKA robots, telling how funny the company's name is...
Your video quality is getting noticeably better with each upload. Informative video, and entertaining to watch. You're becoming the Sam O'Nella of trucks.
At first I was like "hell yeah, the modern marvel of garbage trucks" then i saw the stinky brown garbage water in the back and i almost threw up all over my keyboard. Great video 10/10
Dude you are such an inspiration! Literally, the guy loves trucks and makes quality videos about them, a man of culture!
I love how his chanel is evolving and evolving fast, keep up the good work Yukon!
Remember trash operators and workers are also people and they deserve prise and recognition. I always thank them when they are picking up my trash.
Thank them for doing their job?
@@zakr1187 Yes.
@@zakr1187 human trash spotted
@@zakr1187 A simple thank you can go a long way man
as someone who got to ride shotgun in a Garbage truck, this took me back. let me tell ya, the quick shifting spectrum of smells was.. God damn. didn't mind it but it threw my senses through a loop at times.
2:16 lost it at the smooch 🤣
omg sameee
This is becoming my fav car channel, it fuels my childhood fascination with trucks and I get to learn more about them now
I once did maintenance work, which included riding on a rear-loading compactor truck. That was undoubtedly fun being 18 and riding on the back of the truck and operating the compactor controls.
this channel just keeps getting better
At 70, I remember a time when the City of Long Beach, CA was collecting organic garbage in dump trucks with low sides. Some homes used to have personal incinerators but the practice was banned in '57. As the tech has improved, with each step I think, "it's about f'n time."
Where I live (in the UK), we have rear-loading bin lorries where the wheely-bins are manually moved onto simple lifting arms and dumped into the back compactor.
Also, we call the trucks which lift the metal containers onto a flatbed, skip trucks. They are most commonly seen transporting 'skips' which are trapezium shaped metal containers often rented out for use at smaller construction sites such as for renovating or building house extensions.
Some of the photos of older bin lorries shown looked like dumper trucks. I wonder if any of those may have gone into construction at some point.
As a Brit I just wanted to thank you for including and acknowledging the term Bin Lorry.
I also found this most interesting having always been fascinated by bin lorries as a child.
Here in Brazil all trucks are compactors, but the way they work is by having the driver move slowly through the neighborhoods while a pair of workers jog around around the streets picking up trash bags and throwing them into the back of the truck
This is also the standard in europe. Trucks are generally backloaders, and there's a pair of workers who throw trash bags or load and unload bins. Depending on the quantity of waste, the driver either rolls through slowly or stops entirely, but doesn't get out of the cabin unless absolutely necessary.
@@BlairdBlaird so i guess they have to grab straws or rock paper scissor it for whoever is driving
That scene at 4:02 is just pure pain, either to brain or to nature.
Allways respectet the workers who kept the streets clean, even here on the countryside.
But after seeing this scene i realised how much trash it really is, just keep in mind theres land bigger than my whole towncycle combind fullfilled with trash and no grass or other greens around, this is something the people out there dont (want to) see....
Amazing video, keep it on
I’ve never been a trucker nor do I know a thing about them or the industry.
But I’m stoned out of my mind and these videos are the bee’s knees.
Where I live traditional dumpsters (patent Ochsner for all you dumpster enthusiasts) are slowly getting replaced with subterranean containers that sit just under the ground with only a small chute to throw your trash in sticking out. So besides the regular sideloaders and backloaders there are also trucks with a special crane to lift and empty these new containers. And since there are also subterranean containers for glass and metal the trucks often have several compartments. And cardboard or paper is obviously collected in a different kind of container (can't have a standard for everything, that's not complicated enough) which can be collected by a roll-on container truck
God these videos are great! One day I'd love to see you go through the intricacies of west coast heavy haul and or non standard double/triple trailers. Whenever I'm in the northwest I'm always amazed by the configuration of trucks out there and I can find very little info aside from standard over size permit loads.
Babe wake up, a new truck lore video just dropped
I just discovered this channel from the Yard Dog vid. (me thinking) "sweet, there must be years of content to binge since the quality/entertainment/view numbers is so good" (scrolls down...) "whaaat??" Love what I see so far. Look forward to watching more past and future.
In some places in Sweden (a country who likes recycling) there's a type of backloading garbage truck with different compartment for different materials, and the corresponding garbage bin has compartments for these materials. These bins comes in pairs with 4 compartments in each. They are also powered by biogas which is generated by the garbage companies with the food waste they collect, they also sell the compost that is created.
self-sufficient swedish garbage transport systems
@@JNJNRobin1337 Yeah, and in other places (like were I now live we burn everything to create heat. We need so much waste that we import from other cities and even countries just to keep the heat
I hope this channel blows up. This is some quality content
Great video, my family has been in the industry for 15 year and it's awesome seeing people getting more interested
Would love to see a video in this style about fire trucks, specifically airport fire trucks
Thank you!
As a mechanic on Garbage Trucks, you get used to the smell! The one thing you don't get used to, is the smell of burning through layers of old compacted garbage. The floor under the Compacter Blade gets worn out over years so you have to take a plasma cutter and cut out the floor piece and weld another section back in. It's an unearthly smell 😂
Your videos are just getting better and better. I love trucks and been working on Detroit Diesels since I was 6 helping my dad and I own a 83 MacK R series flatbed and your videos have made my interest in restoring it a lot more. Semi's are just so cool. Along with buses
In Europe we have have started using a more advanced grapple truck. We basically have recycling stations with green bins that sits in slots on the ground with different slots for different materials. Then we pick them up with a knuckle boom and open the underside into a compactor or large container.
Nice to see some history and attention on this subject. Thanks mate! And you'd be right there isn't much we can do about the smell. At least we take showers when we get home LOL
I personally vote that we start calling them: (very stinky) poopoo cars.
Trucks are still loaded by hand quite often, not to mention each fleet is made up of:
-Garbage trucks
-Leaf and Yard trucks
-Recycle Trucks
Recycle trucks have two hoppers, one is about 3x bigger than the other and the large side can be used for tin(cans, bottles etc.) or fiber (boxes), the small side is used for compost (food waste)
-A Garbage Man
Until a few years ago we actually had a combination of front and sideloader in the village I used to live here in germany. The mount of the front loader consisted of 2 side loader mounts and was connected to a hinge that allowed to turn it by 90 degrees so it could pick up the trash containers from the sidewalk then turn back and empty like a front loader. Nowadays they went back to more manual trucks with 2 guys riding on the back and 2 lift arms that empty the containers into the back of the truck but still way more comfortable than what you have in the US :D
Where I live, we tend to carry most of our trash to the local recycling station down the road. Sort it into various bins and such.
In the end it means we don't have much "general" trash left, especially since we also tend to sort out compost/food-waste separately as well.
Trash trucks perhaps? They're trash trucks that take out dumpsters with big robotic arms, cool. Every Thursday in my block, trash trucks come to pick up, nice. I bet back in the 1940s, it looked smaller to you, the trucks. But today, technology trash trucks can automatically eat up the junk, how cool. Great work on cleaning up this world, awesome
Here in Germany we mostly have semi-automatic and automatic trash collectors because labour is expensive and paying injured workers is even more expensive.
We also get our trash bins from the municipality or trash collecting company, so they are all the same, which simplifies the pickup.
you should look more into european designs where im from most of the trash trucks are either compact front loaders or really interesting cranes that grab speciallized containers either in the floor or plastic containers on the side walk and lift them and dump them inside sometimes even washing the containers
Like everyone keeps saying, this channel is going places Yukon, can't wait to watch it grow!
where i live we have side loading dumpster trash trucks, with metal dumpsters in the alleys behind the houses. like a small version of the front loading trash truck, but from the side, for urban areas.
I love your videos, i was there from 3rd video till now! Great animation! Great content!
I love you channel so much!! It rekindled a passion for trucks that I never knew I had.
I am so glad I ran into this content... Love the work
6:45 In the garbage truck industry we call this “Garbage juice” or “bin juice”
We used to have recycling wheelie bins that were split down the middle, one side for paper and the other for glass/metal. The trucks had some sort of mechanism that emptied the two halves separately. They don't do that anymore in my area though.
Roll-off trucks have a lot of uses. They're kind of a Swiss army knife of vocational trucks. Company I used to work for had a roll-off semi trailer and a flatbed module that they could install or remove whenever necessary, among the regular roll-off bins.
Theres also hooklifts that do the same thing just use a hydraulic arm instead of a winch
@@davidty2006 we had a couple, single axles. We used to call them the mini truck since they moved the mini dumpsters.
@@Dr_Nick_ The Lindner unitracs?
i want one of those so bad....
Actually, there's another type of truck you didn't mention: the Hydraulic Crane Garbage Truck. They're designed to handle underground garbage and recycling containers (such as the ones made by Molok).
Love the video!! Your doing a great job :). Even something so common as a garbage truck turns out to be very interesting, love the animation style :))
2:19 that smooch lmao
Thank you for supplying my life with random information about all these amazing trucks I drive by everyday
As someone who works on garbage trucks love this. Newer trucks are crazy
Fellow trash truck appreciater 🤝
There is also compactor rolloffs, you see them attached to the compactor structure on the backside of places like supermarkets.
And we can all thank Dempster for dumpster fires then too, though indirectly as he merely invented the vessel for which our disasters to combust in.
and a final fun note about the waste management business.
There was a guy in Connecticut who basically was a real world Tony Soprano, He bought his 17yr old son a minor league hockey team(Danbury Trashers, The stories are true but if it was done in a movie you would think it was made up).
This channel is underrated
Love the addition of the Stickfigure, the videos were getting better, and this is a nice leap in quality. Keep up the good work.
I work in a company where we drive roll off trucks and they're very similar to the cable trucks shown but instead of using cables to raise and lower the dumpsters it's just a mechanical arm with 2 points of freedom controlled by hydraulics. So you can either just dump the dumpster or you can roll it off the truck.
Where I live there are some dempster dumps running and I always thought that they looked right odd with no bin. The 100 year old design explains things.
I love these style of videos, they're so interesting to me. Can you do a video on Dubai trucking? Or even the middle east in general?
I thank you for these videos Mr. Yukon. They are very pleasing to my young and malleable mind.
Been following for about a month now, not disappointed, keep up the hard work!!!! I honestly don't have a lot of criticism, maybe gradually getting better with animation? But that will come with time, no worries.
on my college campus I've seen little trucks that look a lot like the original Dempster trucks that are used for getting dumpsters out of tight areas. i presume they then take it to somewhere else nearby then empty it then bring it back
When my brother and I were born, our parents lived in suburban New Jersey, and one of our neighbors had a feud with the garbage men.
He was retired off a massive worker's comp settlement and would spend pretty much all day in the carpeted garage he'd turned into a proto man cave. Apparently the neighborhood used old school metal cans, and one time he came out and yelled at the garbage men for denting his nice new cans. This is New Jersey, so the next few times they came by they put his cans in the back of the truck and straight up crushed them (slightly) with the hydraulic compactor. They stopped once they realized he was literally hanging around to catch them in the act, but that wasn't the end of it.
These were also the rear loading trucks that could only compact the trash while the truck was stopped, and they'd do so every couple houses or blocks or so. As shown in one of the last clips, this created a disgusting slurry of trash juice, some or most of which would leak out of the bottom of the truck and onto the road. This guy was *_convinced_* that after the dented cans fiasco, they purposefully ran the compactor in front of his house every time so they could leave a puddle of what he called "the squeezings", so he'd have to smell it all day as he sat in his converted garage with the door open.
Retirement is a hell of a drug.
One of the best channel for this genre of content .
But yo great-grandma yukon !
this man is literally sam o nella but with trucks
I love how your channel has grown so much because people want to watch videos of trucks
Pneumatic collectors, the internet of garbage trucks
Sam O’Nella style comedy + truck related content = god tier entertainment
You should look into the truck racing scene! You’d be surprised to insane the trucks in race championships like the ETRC, are.
Aaaaa yes...
a live example of a truly atmospheric example of educational joy
Fun fact: in Australia in some towns we dump furniture and other stuff like furniture into a backloader
The place I work at uses roll offs with compactors built into the dumpsters they drop off and pick up.
dont forget the evolution of the roll of, the hook lift that can load a bed or container with the driver in the cab
The first manual side loader you showed is actually the garbage trucks my area uses
Really love your videos! Especially, the series on trucking in different countries. Could you maybe make one about Russia? If there is something interesting to talk about
Probably fucking endless trips, the thing is absolutely massive. Also old ass soviet trucks working off-grid logging and such. Basically, SpinTires Mudrunner
But with a bigger map
Trucks Featured In video that I know
3:56 | Mack LE i Think - LLC Curotto Can McNeilus Contender I think didn't get a good look correct me
4:45 | Waste Management Peterbilt 520 - Heil Python CNG
4:55 Recology Lodal Manual SIde Load Again don't study manual side loaders that much
5:05 Peterbilt 520 GS Products Star Automated Side Loader
5:14 Lodal Manual Sideloader with both side tippers sorta rare in Winter Haven Florida.
6:00 CNG Waste Management Peterbilt garbage truck don't have much info on this one since it is kinda rare.
6:36 Leach Curbtender
6:55 Los Angeles Sanitation Hardox CNG Peterbilt - 320 Amrep ASL
Correct me if i get anything wrong just got this recommended and i didn't really try that hard to identify
Another type of garbage truck I’ve seen is one where there’s a small single axle daycab semi like a freightliner m2 or a Peterbilt 337 pulling a trailer specially designed to hold multiple dumpsters. I can’t find any pictures online because I don’t know the specific name of these trucks but EDCO and WM in Southern California both use these.
Last time I heard someone refer trash trucks as dust carts was in GTA III. Toni Cipriani called it that when he told Claude to drive one fitted with something and take it to the Triads. The Leone family rivals.
Don't forget the trucks that empty out the underground containers. (Big square containers that sit in the ground, with a small opening on the top for users and a large trapdoor on the bottom for emptying. They are lifted up above the truck to empty them)
They are very popular here and are very different from the rear loaders. A.f.a.i.k. there are no side or front loaders in use in this country (the Netherlands).
Why would you make a complicated contraption when loading from the rear is so much easier and faster?
And you can use the exact same truck design for large or small containers, just fit one large one, or up to three small ones in one go...
Lot of respect for the garbage collectors, I don't know what they are paid but I'm sure it's not enough for what they do.
must be good to have newer dump trucks... here in my area in the philippines they still use old style dump trucks which are almost 2 storeys tall and look like its about to collapse because of the large amount of trash thats on it. Theres even a lot of hanging ones at the back of it
3:47
the video you chose to illustrate "it's hard to say much" is hilarious
wow...this is my second vid after the school bus video and im very impressed by the quality jump
im confident you'll have a million subs some day...im subscribed and im not even that interested in trucks
When I was in high school, one of my teachers asked if any of us were against being a trashman or trash women in my case. We all were pretty much against it. Her point was that now a days they make pretty good $. But no matter what, it's still a hard hard job!!!
keep it up! U deserve wayyy more subs. hope u get 1 mill
10m**
@@devasynimare478 no 100 mill*
@@Denorial too short
99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999mil
for a future video, can talk about "Chasis-Acoplado" trucks and the massive use in Argentina.
1:22 "At this point in history, being a garbage man was one of the worst jobs you could have"
And yet they're dressed so _stylishly_
Hey Yukon, do a video on trucking in Indonesia & new Zealand I'd appreciate.
The story, animation and video itself are really cool and funny. Keep up the good work!