Trash truck fire

Looks like a BSS truck. The company I worked for made products for them and they were a bunch of a$$holes to deal with. That made me smile.
 
I already try to not drive near them for the stink reason... but you have my curiosity.
how often?
Ride by your local cities lot where they park the equipment and see how many toasted ones are out there. I’ve had one burn to the ground, 2 burn bad enough for Insurance having to pay and numerous small fires the driver caught in time so it just cost me a extinguisher recharge. If you get a load that catches fire you’re suppose to close the top door, compact the load, and then find a parking lot to dump it in.
 
Ride by your local cities lot where they park the equipment and see how many toasted ones are out there. I’ve had one burn to the ground, 2 burn bad enough for Insurance having to pay and numerous small fires the driver caught in time so it just cost me a extinguisher recharge. If you get a load that catches fire you’re suppose to close the top door, compact the load, and then find a parking lot to dump it in.
Well, that explains California.
 
Ride by your local cities lot where they park the equipment and see how many toasted ones are out there. I’ve had one burn to the ground, 2 burn bad enough for Insurance having to pay and numerous small fires the driver caught in time so it just cost me a extinguisher recharge. If you get a load that catches fire you’re suppose to close the top door, compact the load, and then find a parking lot to dump it in.


All that is probably easier said than done with it being a race against the fire getting to a hydraulic line first.
 
Years ago, a guy had a trash truck fire, and dumped it on HWY 54. He saved the truck best I can remember.
 
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Ride by your local cities lot where they park the equipment and see how many toasted ones are out there. I’ve had one burn to the ground, 2 burn bad enough for Insurance having to pay and numerous small fires the driver caught in time so it just cost me a extinguisher recharge. If you get a load that catches fire you’re suppose to close the top door, compact the load, and then find a parking lot to dump it in.

Ive seen SEVERAL Over the years burnt to a crisp on our lot Good for nothing but scrap
 
Ride by your local cities lot where they park the equipment and see how many toasted ones are out there. I’ve had one burn to the ground, 2 burn bad enough for Insurance having to pay and numerous small fires the driver caught in time so it just cost me a extinguisher recharge. If you get a load that catches fire you’re suppose to close the top door, compact the load, and then find a parking lot to dump it in.
We pretty much got out of front loaders so they're much rarer at my city now. They still char stuff off the exhaust on the sideloaders but the hydros are opposite and mostly under. We get some knuckle head driver rolling in on brakes right on the verge pretty often, one was smoking for an hour today because he had something wedged on the left side brake pedal.
 
We pretty much got out of front loaders so they're much rarer at my city now. They still char stuff off the exhaust on the sideloaders but the hydros are opposite and mostly under. We get some knuckle head driver rolling in on brakes right on the verge pretty often, one was smoking for an hour today because he had something wedged on the left side brake pedal.
We took over most everything from Winston including all the government buildings. I’ve heard Kernersville is planning on getting out of it in the near future which probably means I’m buying another truck.
 
We took over most everything from Winston including all the government buildings. I’ve heard Kernersville is planning on getting out of it in the near future which probably means I’m buying another truck.
Can't say I'm sad to see them go. Hope it's benefitting you. We still have 3 trucks to run 1 route, not sure what they get other than the shop, maybe cardboard.
 
Can't say I'm sad to see them go. Hope it's benefitting you. We still have 3 trucks to run 1 route, not sure what they get other than the shop, maybe cardboard.
I think y’all are still running cardboard. It’s another route for sure. It’s an economies of scale business, the more stops I add the more each stop makes.
 
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