Woollahra Garbage

Описание: Recently I spent some time in the eastern suburbs of Sydney to catch some rear loaders run by the local councils for domestic collections. Woollahra was one of these councils, which I last visited about 6 years ago, getting two of their JP5/Volvos doing garbage and green-waste. I think they only have a single JP5 left in the fleet now, with the rest of the big trucks featuring the newer UrBin bodies. Considering I previously had very little footage of an UrBin, I definitely wanted to hunt down one of these trucks, more so as they’re mounted on Volvos! In my past batch of Woollahra uploads I had a long video of the green-waste and very little of the garbage, so I decided to primarily target a truck doing weekly garbage collections on this occasion.

I ended up taking this footage during two mornings. On the first visit I tracked down an incomplete section, expecting a truck to show in this particular spot early to start the second load. I’ve learnt in the past you can drive around everywhere looking for trucks and different areas, get nothing doing that, and then miss other opportunities because of choosing not to wait around. I just can’t win in this respect, because it turns out where I waited was the end of the run, so after sitting in a street for over 2 hours, the team finally rocked up mid morning to polish off the remaining streets. This only gave me about 5min of footage :/ I was far from satisfied, so I returned the next morning to capture the rest. Just thought I’d mention getting this footage wasn’t effortless...

The first half features the portion I captured on Tuesday morning, with the boys handling units in Woollahra itself, and the rest I took early Wednesday morning while two of the guys knocked over the work in Point Piper. #614 is the rear loader featured, being one of the newest Volvos in the council fleet - was cool to finally watch one of these in action! Hopefully in future I will return to catch one of the little Garwood RLs the council operates for tight access. Note Woollahra recycling went from streamed collections to co-mingle not long ago. URM took over the job and as always they’re running second hand trucks, two of which are Hinos with Compaction Systems bodies, one I suspect is ex-Leichhardt and the other ex-Sydney. Anyway cheers to the council garbos, hope they enjoy the footage along with the rest of you.