A right interesting 🤔, ye we have always had a separate glass bin on its own. Our plastics and metal go into our blue bins

Cheers, it's always interesting to hear how other councils do their bin collections, they always seem to be slightly different. Our trucks are always 3 man crews ,unless it's commercial or food waste, then it's a 2 man crew . Chip vans are usually just one guy out on his own

Cheers 👍 Yes you have a point lol, I could certainly have fitted my glass route on an 18t truck no problems. It's probably just that the same crew of guys drive the same truck whether it's blue, cardboard, general or glass. If your a driver with his own run you have the same loaders and the same truck all the time

Cheers for your comment, our glass is once a month, and ye it's definitely the easiest of all the bin weeks. I think I've only ever put mine out about 3 times since I've had it! We don't have many smaller 18ton trucks,most of our fleet are 26 tonners so we're kinda forced to use them for the glass but ye we could definitely fit any of the runs on a smaller truck. It is very noisy,I'm glad I'm not a loader lol

@@billythebintruckdriver3952I recently film the glass recycling service in my area, (uploaded as vlog 142) you can really see the difference n who you guys do it, the main point is ours is one a side loader and yours on a rear loader. EDIT: Vlog 142.

@@Merri-bekGarbo I've just checked it out, great video. The side loader's with the big arms look amazing bits of kit,I wish my council had some of them lol, it would certainly make the job more interesting

@@billythebintruckdriver3952 they definitely noisy, the glass. Haha I’m wanting to see some rear loaders, they can be good in small streets.

Ye I could believe it might do that ,I personally don't think the trucks we have are suited to doing glass, iv seen them struggle to lift the back end as there is too much glass still in the hopper

It's always Interesting to hear how other people do the same Job but in a completely different way., The top loader system sounds pretty cool to use but it's bad news about about the job losses 😞 I think we Will unfortunately see more job losses within the industry as we move toward artificial intelligence,not sure when it will happen but it will as the transport industry is one of the biggest employers in the world I think.

Lol I would love to but you know how soft the young ones are today ,he would need a safe space and therapy after it 😂

@@billythebintruckdriver3952 Oh poo. I might as well tear up my application form, then. I wasn't joining for the money, you understand. I was hoping to join for the "perks". Just push the ejector plate to the front of the vehicle, and I might survive for hours. Hopefully I can try the scoop of a Geesink Vulture and the auger of a Rotopress. I can hide inside two 1100 litre shiny black polythene bin liners, in amongst the other black bags in an 1100 litre bin. My record to date is 6 hours inside a commercial bin. I would do more, if it was not for the leg cramps - sitting motionless for 6 hours. Some bins get locked though. Oops ! Hope the bin lorry is on time. The bin might be heavier than normal. But there is nothing to see here. Just rubbish awaiting compaction and disposal. There are loads of us, that would pay good money for a ride.

Our fleet is kept pretty new mate ,I think our oldest truck is a daf from 2018 that's used for litter and dog bins

@@billythebintruckdriver3952 ahh ok. I am guessing you guys don't have any side loaders

@@NSWGarbo47 no side side loader's on trucks ,we do have them on our vans ,(chip vans we call them) . I do think the side loader's look very useful

@@billythebintruckdriver3952 what do the vans collect? Have you got a video with one of them? The side loaders are very good if the company lets them lid flip, otherwise they are too slow and a rear loader would do better.

@@NSWGarbo47 ye I have a video there mate,the first half is on a small 18ton bin truck then the second half of the video is me in one of our vans. Our vans are iveco ,they used to be Vauxhall but they gave us a lot of trouble. As you can imagine the chip vans get a hard life.Ours are used for dog bins and litter bins Interesting what you say about the side loader's , a I say I've never had one on a truck 🚛👍 it's the video that's 24.05 minutes long, says in the bins again. I can't figure out how to send the link 😂 I'm not great with technology

It's just the policy of the council I work for, we did have plastic boxes for the glass years ago but they got rid of them and brought in the 140L bins instead.The bins are a lot easier to use than the plastic boxer were tbh 👍

About 6 and a half 👍

Nothing wrong with what hes done mate

@@liamslack2214 just for explame going to the back while the lifts are still on auto is not health and saftey. I do the job and teach this myself. I enjoy the videos but the job dangerous as it. Just use a bit of common sense and make it safer so you know your getting home safe.

@@cjb8736 I switched the lifters off at the side of the truck before I leant over the the back end it to look in 👍

@@billythebintruckdriver3952 the green light is still on where the controls are, which means the auto lift was still on and the bin lifts are still operational which then means your saftey is at risk. I enjoy your videos but saftey is number1 people don't understand just how dangerous the job is.