I wasn’t planning on whipping up a new video from Fairfield City after I produced that last upload featuring the Isuzu side loaders, but since then I just felt like I needed to capture one more thing. So after finishing my own job on Wednesday 1st May, I drove out to the Fairfield area straight after to take plenty of photos and videos of a specific garbage truck doing weekly waste collection rounds. I aimed for plant 581 flipping bins in the northern part of the suburb of Smithfield, which was on its third last "garbage only week" schedule. The cherry on top was the sick c**t legend at the wheel, a familiar fella from several of my videos who’d recently secured this rig and run permanently... some might know him as “Fairfield’s Fastest Driver” =D It was also essential that I presented this truck at work both under moonlight and sunlight to show it in the true working environment. As such, the first clips are of early morning collections during the second load and the rest of the video is taken from sunrise during the third load, with overcast skies enhancing the dark blue Fairfield scheme. If you only want the daylight view, skip ahead to 5:05.
At the beginning of June 2024, council introduced a fortnightly FOGO service, ending the long running 2-bin-system in place for 27 years. One reason I wanted to shoot this new video was to document the last month of garbage only week in Fairfield, something that was once extremely common nationally and has been phased out so much recently in both metro and regional areas. Consider it a throwback to the early days of MGB rubbish, typically each dwelling had one 240L out the front for mixed household waste - just a cool sight to see down a residential street. Nowadays it’s mostly modern red lidded Sulos that exist in Fairfield, replacing the original 1985 dated bins from an early automation era, but I was able to include a few leftover 80s/90s oldies in this footage.
It was learnt that unit 581 was the very last Iveco to join this council’s in-house operation, so it’s a significant truck given the 30 years during which Fairfield purchased ACCOs for the domestic waste fleet. The previous 581 was a somewhat young GenV/ACCO, but one morning in September 2018, the truck was being unloaded at the Lucas Heights landfill and the compactor body broke away and fell off the chassis. This one would join another seven Bucher Gen6 collection vehicles that would be impacted by fire damage during a depot inferno in 2021, but it was 1 of 4 survivors that was sent off for repairs and made a return. Currently this truck is only 1 of 4 ACCOs that remain in fulltime service for the council, with Isuzu now making up the high majority of 6x4 trucks in the workforce.
If I can drop a bombshell, I actually recorded all this action with the camera on my phone, and damn how I wish I decided to do so sooner! The video camera I’ve relied on for over 15 years started playing up and became difficult to use, so I tried out an alternative. A while ago I took a spontaneous shot of another truck with my phone and was very impressed with the resulting picture quality. Then after editing that video, I was surprised at the reasonable file size given the top resolution, which was lower than the massive file size created for smaller resolution uploads done with my actual video camera. I’m kicking myself thinking of all the trucks I’ve videoed in later years and shown in ordinary picture quality, when a superior option was readily available to me all along. Anyway, good old hindsight, a wonderful thing. From now on I’ll use my phone to video anything else in future, not that I’ll be hunting anywhere near as many trucks as I used to moving forward. It took me a little time to get used to the zoom function with the phone, also had trouble with the auto focus in the darkness, which you’ll see take effect in the starting seconds of this video. The editing process was definitely quicker and more convenient to go through than before as well, although the abrupt switch between clips was hard to accept, with me unable to use my favourite fading transition that I’ve chosen religiously for years. Ensure the player quality is at 720p, I hope this best ever resolution AussieGarbo upload is thoroughly enjoyed... took me long enough ey!
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