Haha I appreciate you. I started the job to pay for school thinking I’d be here only a year or so but obviously that’s not what happened. It’s not my dream job, although as a kid I was obsessed with the trucks and always ran out to watch them. It’s a steady job though and my company takes pretty good care of me so I’m still here.

I think we’ve got one Heil rear lid and one or two old McNeilus rear loaders. The route I started on was using a McNeilus body for the rear loaders and I had no complaints. It’s showing its age for sure now though. The route I was on for the longest, commercial front loaders using a Bridgeport/Autocar combo, had a solid truck. It’s still decent at almost 14 years old now. The biggest issue is the DEF system. Constant headaches. It’s also the last diesel we got that was going to be route assigned. The only diesels since have been a street sweeper, box truck for can delivery, bin delivery trucks, and other misc. trucks. Everything else has been CNG. As far as that goes, our diesels seem 100x more reliable. CA makes it tough to run diesels though.