I managed to get this footage back in January 2020 when I travelled down to Sydney for some well earned holidays, it was roughly five years or so since I had travelled down to Sydney so I was glad to be back. I was staying in the Willougby area so on the Thursday I managed to track a truck down after a tip off from a mate and film my first JJ Richards garbage truck in action. I was reasonably impressed in the truck, simple or even spartan like controls compared to the modern Bucher and Superior Pak bodies which have now moved onto touch screen control interface systems but it worked well. These JJ's bodies always remind me a little of the old MacDonald Johnston MkIII's with their curved hoppers. Weirdly even though Suez's Artarmon transfer station is well inside the Willoughby City Council boundaries, Willoughby have done a contract with Veolia to tip off the garbage which means that the garbage trucks have to travel across the harbour to Botany to tip their loads at Veolia's Botany transfer station, money must talk with councils... Hope you enjoy this video, it was certainly different filming and seeing southern trucks again compared to just seeing the usual Brisbane City/Suez trucks.
8 фев 2021
