Alpine Garbage

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Here is the second installment from my visit to Alpine Shire a few years back when I did a day trip out to Northern Victoria to check out the trucks that Cleanaway were running up there. I didn't have much of an idea on what would be getting used up there but I had figured that they would be running something old and would most likely be Superior Pak equipment. To my surprise though, this Acco GenV was handling the Garbage collections and it was a must to get on video.
JJ Richards lost the Alpine Shire contract in 2014 to Cleanaway and thought there wouldn't be any permanent sort of trucks running up there as they tend to rotate all the trucks around in those contracts they have up North but this Acco GenV seemed to be one of the full time trucks in the shire. A couple of years prior I was shown photos of two Euro5 Acco GenV's sitting at Adtrans painted up in Cleanaway colours. One being this Standard 22m3 and the other being a Recycler 29m3 body. Never knew where they had been put to work but they where sent up North. It was great to see something different in Cleanaway colours especially being a Acco GenV which is something very unusual at the time when this was recorded. The truck itself presents well, especially with its mean looking bull bar up front. Interesting to note though how the arm itself works and how it's set up. It has the revs by the joystick but retracts back without the revs and there is no cutting off of the acceleration, more like a Gen6 set up. Typically in a GenV the revs are by the joystick but if the arm is not retracted fully in to the home position, you will take off but the acceleration will cut out which will then enable the revs for a moment while the arm retracts in and then you will have control of the acceleration. I'm also guessing that the driver is able to drive off with the bin while the arm is still lifting the bin which is how the MkIV's were set up and some early GenV's. Mitch's Kogarah Garbage video is a good example of this in the opening clip.
Cheers to the awesome driver for letting me get this truck on film, was defiantly something unusual. I believe it still gets around Alpine Shire but from a couple of recent videos I have, looks like they have swapped the trucks around again but happy to be corrected. Enjoy!!! ;) ;) ;)

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@AussieGarbo Жыл бұрын

It is interesting that Cleanaway got one of these trucks out there when it was still during much of a Dennis era that they won this contract, I wonder what influenced this side arm order... both GenV and ACCO too. A very tidy looking machine anyway, it presents itself very well like you said. I reckon that bull bar gives this truck a completely different identity from the front, I noticed a couple extra lights it has on the front too, it must light up like Xmas in the rural darkness haha Spotted what must be the bin carrier under the tailgate, can't really think of seeing anything else like it out there on trucks that don't belong to the Richards gang. One thing that has always pissed me off about this make of side loader is that throttle lock feature, I guess this guy made sure it was disabled, noticed he casually leaves the slide out and relies on autopark to do its thing haha I can see at 10:48 the 90 degree lift interlock is disabled as well - almost tells he must have driven for Richards in the old contract! That bin line at 2:05 on a random note, I've never understood when half the bins are reasonably spaced and then the further into the line you go they all get tighter =S

@VictorianGarbo Жыл бұрын

I knew that Cleanaway had gotten a couple of these E5 Acco GenV's but had no idea where they were gonna be put to work, turns out they are all in the northern part of the state lol. You could almost say this truck was set up in a way that it is a GenV/Mk4 with a couple of interlocks disabled ect. Yes, this driver did drive in the former JJR contract and infact has a model truck he drove that he made himself.