I’d had a slow morning finding trucks on this particular Tuesday three years ago, so an impulse decision had me making a long overdue return to Marrickville Council. I found myself having a look through the streets of Dulwich Hill for action, quickly spotting a high vis worker in a backstreet getting bins ready for quick pickup. Truck 9046 arrived shortly after, putting the full team of 3 men and machine together to knock off the remainder of that particular weekly garbage run. Upon finishing with the red bin guys, just across the road I found fortnightly recycling was yet to be collected, getting me on the brief lookout for truck 9901 and its crew working just a few streets away. I must admit this action can't beat the original stuff I took with the brighter and louder trucks, swift twin lifters handling garbage, the extra speed and motivation... I'm annoyed I didn't capture more of it all.
Down in this inner west location, the council performs all services itself, with a pure rear loader workforce due to the area it is. Around the time of videos the council was in the process of rolling out brand new bins to all properties, with the new red lid ones featured - never expected we’d see tall Sulo2 140Ls again! The trucks were only nearing a year old in this video, with the council upgrading during 2015 with a heap of these 20m UrBin Iveco units. Unfortunately, they basically look as boring as a garbage truck can be, unless the council has since added some nice livery. You’ll notice these come equipped with the enclosed tailgate and hopper curtains too, a very rare sight, also kind of annoying seeing it hides the packer. I hate to say I didn’t get any videos of the previous 6x4 rear loaders, which is a real shame given the Compaction Systems Iveco range in use, definitely some neat trucks.
Marrickville Council technically ceases to exist today, since amalgamation with Leichhardt and Ashfield to form Inner West Council. However, the existing in-house works, rear loader fleet and collection operations are still at play... so it’s still Marrickville waste services as far as I’m concerned. I actually worked at Marrickville for a very short period in 2013, even doing a shift on that same recycle truck I videoed way back in 2009! Too bad for me I started there just after they scrapped the “job finish” conditions, which was the incentive to go hard, get it done and go home. Working at the complete opposite pace to fill an 8 hour shift made it a different and torturing experience for me, but at least the guys in the video kept things moving, with thanks going to both friendly teams.
26 апр 2019
