Santa Monica Mountains -- Residential (WM/GI)

Here are five trucks that Waste Management has run up in the Santa Monica Mountains. This contract is extremely difficult to service, so they run a wide variety of really neat, custom trucks. Unfortunately, with how insane most of the route is, I was only able to get this little bit of footage (most of it coming from 2018) despite the many awesome trucks that they've run here over the past couple years since taking over the contract from UWS.

(0:00) - 101511: These MR/Amreps were originally ordered many years ago specifically for the Topanga contract. When UWS won the contract back in 2007, GI moved these drop axle Octos to other service areas. Luckily, they were able to maintain them in pretty great shape over the years, so when they won the contract in 2018, these went back up to Topanga. Here's veteran driver Jorge up in the tight hills on the Thursday route. Only managed to get this one clip unfortunately before he got a new truck.

(1:44) - 105283: This ex-Sacramento Freightlinder Condor Amrep was purchased when GI was in dire need for new minis. We caught another veteran driver, Miguel, up here doing an actual neighborhood so we grabbed some footage. Awesome driver who really knows a lot about the trucks and routes at GI. This Condor can't be revved unfortunately but I was happy that the arm moved at a pretty good speed.

(2:11) - 105613: One of my favorite drivers from GI was running their very first 520/Amrep up here. I first caught Benito out in Simi running the old Volvo/Amrep from HSS back in 2016 so it was really cool to see him on another route.

(2:28) - 105283: Here's more of Miguel finishing up in this neighborhood. It was really cool seeing all the UWS carts still around.

(5:20) - 101512: This was probably the number one truck I wanted to see from GI back then. Arnulfo previously drove 101512 for many years up until roughly 2016 when he was given a tag axle Mack LE/Amrep. I wanted to see him in 101512 badly because he tended to lid flip and rev in that truck. When WM won Topanga, he was given 101512 back so I really wanted to see him in it. Moises and I caught him in this tight area collecting a few carts back in September 2018, but this was all I could get before he disappeared up another tight street. 101512 was retired last year unfortunately.

(7:24) - 106232: These are the new Topanga trucks for GI. Even though they are new, I'm a huge fan of them. They have a shorter body and it's really neat to see custom drop axle trucks. I also really like the simple WM logo on the body. The driver of this truck was running it really well I decided to grab a couple clips.

(8:52) - Carts: Some pictures of some of the carts around Topanga

Big thanks to all the awesome drivers from WM for making this video possible! And another BIG thanks to Moises for making most of this video possible - he sure knows how to maneuver through the tight streets of Topanga!