Ware Disposal's First Day in Monterey Park

We headed out to Monterey Park on WARE's first day of the contract to check out what trucks would be running and as we expected we found a couple different Battle Motors Amreps along with a scorpion running. Ware disposal is running twice as many trucks as Athens did as Ware is running smaller routes and they have implemented a recycling program here, whereas before Athens ran a mixed waste program, which it appears they residents are still getting use to the addition of recycling services because there were not a lot of recycle carts setout and some of the greenwaste carts were contaminated. First truck in the video is 362 which is one of the battle amreps they purchased for this contract, unfortunately this truck was really slow as new amreps typically are, the driver, Gilbert was talking to us a little bit about the operation and he mentioned he use to work for Republic Anaheim. Next truck in the video is 373 which 1 out of 5 of the Battle Motors Amrep front loaders they purchased for this contract, accompanied by a Ford Maverick scout truck which I haven't seen from any company before. Unfortunately they were not able to do a lot of stops because they didn't have the keys/access to the bins. Last truck in the video is 370 which is a Peterbilt 320 Scorpion they bought used from the city of San Diego and by the looks of it will be a regular truck in Monterey Park. Unfortunately this truck was on the slower side as it looks like the driver was still getting use to the truck.

Big thanks to all the drivers here for letting us record and big thanks to Gilbert for allowing us to record and talking to us for a bit about the operation.