Ryde Garbage - SL30

In this video we see Suez Spare (Ex Ryde Council) Side Loader #30, handling the red lidded garbage bins in the suburbs of Putney and Ryde on a Monday morning just under a week ago. Its been quite a while since I uploaded something from the Ryde Collections, so I decided to throw up some fresh footage of this 10 year old truck still doing its thing on a full time garbage run of 1400 bins with the two loads taken to Veolia's Transfer Station at Clyde. Both SL029 and SL030 based at the Eastern Creek Yard are the two dedicated spares for the current Ryde contract when a Side Loader or Units Rear Loader breaks down or is not available, RL006 is the spare/extra Cleanup truck used heavily throughout the summer months. I was up nice and early at 4am on this particular Monday for the first couple of bins on Victoria Rd Ryde and managed to stay with this truck all day for an 11am finish in Ryde. You will notice in the video that I managed to include a couple of early dark morning shots as well as some daytime footage to mix it up a bit. This driver like most drivers in Ryde only uses the Beacon on the main roads and during the day, but when it comes to the local residential streets in the early morning before the sun rises, the beacon is off out of respect to the residents sleeping. One of the old Ryde trucks/spares used to get used every fortnight on the recycle week for the commercial waste run but the council wants the bins picked up by a new truck now so the BOTEK system can record the bins. So every fortnight the garbos have a roster on whos new garbage truck gets used on the commercial/trade waste run and they have to drive the spare on there full time garbage run for a week (8 week rotation between the 4 trucks/drivers). At the 1:35 mark I managed to get one of those new 80L garbage bins being picked up on video, this driver likes to half grab them as they dont fly around in the grabs and a lot easier to put down. Expect to see more of the Ryde Collections on my YouTube channel very soon as I have a heap saved of the new and old green Side Loaders as well as some video of the Dennis/UrBin Rear Loaders. Big thanks has to go out to the fast and smooth driver Damo for letting me get some video, hope you enjoy it mate along with everyone else.