WM’s BYD Amrep Electric Garbage Truck Is Back On The Road!

Antelope Valley’s BYD Amrep has been back up and running for a little over a week now after having its first set of teething issues fixed. As far as i’ve heard work was done with batteries, steering, and the grabbers. Despite the first set of issues I’m pretty sure this is easily the most reliable BYD so far. As it’s only really had relatively minor issues and has little to no trouble running a trash route 5 days a week that goes all over the AV with some decent sized hills and dirt road areas to tackle. If the reliability of this one keeps up I see no reason why WM would have a problem ordering another to try out in a different yard.

Here’s about 17 minutes of footage of it running a trash route on the Palmdale Friday route. Was really interesting getting to see this truck at work for the first time. The acceleration on it was almost unbelievable. It’s crazy to think something as big as a garbage truck can pick up speed that quickly. I also want to take the time to thank everyone for 600 subscribers! I don’t plan on making a special video for this milestone, this is about as special as I can get even though I wasn’t the first to upload it. Hope you enjoy!

Big thanks to Jerry for letting me grab all this footage!

TO THE PEOPLE AT WM: Please don’t use this video against the drivers it is for entertainment purposes only!! If you have questions regarding the content you see in this video please email me at [email protected]